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After grouping, it was owned half by the Southern, and one-sixth each by the LNER, Metropolitan and District. Length 5 miles (8 km). Managed and operated by Met; goods traffic by LNER. Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Committee: prior to grouping, owned by the Metropolitan Railway and GCR; post-Grouping, Metropolitan and LNER.
Locomotives of pre-grouping British railway companies (24 C, 22 P) London and North Eastern Railway constituents (11 C, 27 P) London, Midland and Scottish Railway constituents (13 C, 43 P)
Turner, John Howard (1978), The London Brighton and South Coast Railway 2 Establishment and Growth. Batsford, ISBN 0-7134-1198-8; Turner, John Howard (1979), The London Brighton and South Coast Railway 3 Completion and Maturity. Batsford, ISBN 0-7134-1389-1. White, H.P. (1961). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: II. Southern ...
The number of jointly operated lines was greatly reduced by the grouping but a substantial number survived, including the Cheshire Lines Committee, the Forth Bridge Railway Company, the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway (all LMS/LNER) and the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (LMS/SR). At in excess of 180 track miles, the M&GN was the ...
Reading, Guildford and Reigate Railway; Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway incorporated 1858. Surrey Iron Railway(SIR) opened 1804 (4 ft gauge): Croydon Merstham and Godstone Railway – extension of SIR; West Somerset Mineral Railway incorporated 1855 to carry iron ore; passenger service from 1865; closed to all traffic 1898 see article here
Remains of Manchester Exchange railway station in 1989 Manchester Exchange was a railway station immediately north of Manchester city centre , England, which served it between 1884 and 1969. The main approach road ran from the end of Deansgate, near Manchester Cathedral , passing over the River Irwell , the Manchester-Salford boundary, and ...
There were originally three general managers representing the interests of the three pre-Grouping railway companies: Sir Herbert Walker, Percy Tempest and William Forbes, although Walker was the sole occupant in the post within a year. [2]
The station expanded as the railway grew and by 1910 there were three platform faces, a bay for loading cattle, extensive goods sidings with a five-ton crane and a goods station. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The CMR built a two-lane engine shed and turntable in 1869, the shed was doubled in size in 1877 and rebuilt around 1948 before closing to steam ...