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Cambrian Railways Album by CC Green w/ dust jacktet
Cambrian Railways Album by CC Green
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
112 pages
Copyright 1977
CONTENTS
Introduction 6
From the beginning to 18578
1857-1864: and a little way beyond12
The look of the early railways 18
1859-1864: Early Locomotives and Rolling Stock 24
1864-1885: Birth of The Cambrian Railways 28
1885-1899: The Cambrian grows up 40
1899-1914: The Best Years58
1914-1922: The War Years and Finale 90
From GWR to BR 104
The Preservation Age108
Postcripts112
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION:
The first surge of 19th Century railway expansion left Central Wales in the cold. The London North Western Railway had taken the north coast of the Principality to Holyhead as its Irish mail route, instead of a more direct line from the Midlands via the valleys of the Severn, the Dovey or the Mawddach; and the Great Western Railway had kept clear of Central Wales in seeking a route from the industrial North West of England to the potentially great port of Milford Haven. So, when local promoters set about filling in the neglected railway territory, they were left with little but rural traffic to finance their efforts. Moreover, in an area where population as well as cash was in short supply, each local railway scheme had a competitive struggle for construction labour and materials as well as subscribers of capital.
From the first opening in 1859 until the system's absorption by the Great Western Railway in 1922, therefore, the little companies which eventually merged as the Cambrian Railways were always struggling to make both ends meet. But it was a proud struggle, full of character, to serve the Welsh communities as devotedly and efficiently as compelling economic considerations allowed. Some remarkable enterprise was shown in making the most of limited resources, even to the assembly and rebuilding of locomotives in local workshops with limited equipment. Visually, too, the locomotives, rolling stock, stations, signalling and other fixed equipment of the Cambrian were full of individual character.
All this is vividly captured by C. C. Green in his varied panorama of the Cambrian's train services, rolling stock and installations. Few of the old railways have had the benefit of such devoted research as Mr Green has applied to the Cambrian for many years, as a result of which he is able to add countless fascinating contemporary anecdotes to his remarkable collection of photographs. Here is the essence of 19th Century rural railway operation, its foibles made the more fascinating in this case by the character of the Welsh people themselves.
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