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The Great Western Railway Volume Five Shrewsbury to Pwllheli
Stanley C. Jenkins
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Description for The Great Western Railway Volume Five Shrewsbury to Pwllheli
Paperback. This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the GWR line between Shrewsbury and Pwllheli has changed and developed over the last century. Series: The Great Western Railway. Num Pages: 128 pages, 200. BIC Classification: 1DBKEMP; 1DBKW; WGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 247 x 13. Weight in Grams: 426.
Formed in 1864 by the amalgamation of the Oswestry & Newtown, Newtown & Machynlleth, Llanidloes & Newtown and several other railway companies, Cambrian Railways was the largest independent railway in Wales, with a long, winding, single-track main line that extended from Whitchurch in the east to Aberystwyth and Pwllheli on the Welsh coast. In 1922, the company was amalgamated with the Great Western Railway under the provisions of the Railways Act 1921 and thereafter, the Cambrian line was worked as an integral part of the GWR system. The present-day Cambrian main line runs from Shrewsbury to Pwllheli, a distance ... Read more
Formed in 1864 by the amalgamation of the Oswestry & Newtown, Newtown & Machynlleth, Llanidloes & Newtown and several other railway companies, Cambrian Railways was the largest independent railway in Wales, with a long, winding, single-track main line that extended from Whitchurch in the east to Aberystwyth and Pwllheli on the Welsh coast. In 1922, the company was amalgamated with the Great Western Railway under the provisions of the Railways Act 1921 and thereafter, the Cambrian line was worked as an integral part of the GWR system. The present-day Cambrian main line runs from Shrewsbury to Pwllheli, a distance ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
The Great Western Railway
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445642864
SKU
V9781445642864
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About Stanley C. Jenkins
Stanley C. Jenkins, who was educated at Witney Grammar School, the University of Lancaster and the University of Leicester, has written over 20 books and some 750 articles on local, transport and regional history. Having worked as an English Language teacher at Oxford Air Training School for several years, he returned to Leicester University to retrain as a museum curator ... Read more
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