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Jarrold Railway Series 3 Locomotives of the London Midland and Scottish Railway
Jarrold Railway Series 3 Locomotives of the London Midland and Scottish Railway by Alan Bloom Soft Cover 1979 Approx 32 pages
I t was obvious that drastic reorganisation of the Railways was needed after the First World War. During that war, all the Railway Companies, large and small, had been under centralised government control. This ended in August 1921, when an Act of Parliament made Grouping possible. It was the initiative of the dynamic Sir Eric Geddes, who had been a railwayman before becoming a Government Minister, which set amalgamation as the aim. Not that there was any suggestion of total integration into one system: the idea slowly took shape that the dozens of separate companies should join together into four geographical groups. independent of each other. Such a step was rational, not only for economic reasons but also to dispense with harmful rivalries, the overlapping of interests, and to provide a generally better service, both passenger and freight. Some companies were close to becoming bankrupt, and though railway shares had mostly been safe and sometimes profitable. there were danger signals ahead.
It took a year of consultation and discussion to decide which companies would be best welded together. Some resented the idea of losing their identity by being absorbed by a larger neighbour, whilst the latter were all the more intent on domination. Two of the largest companies, the London & North Western and the Midland. had been on less-than-friendly terms for years but now they had no option but to unite, along with many lesser lines, as the London, Midland & Scottish. As a group it encompassed such far away places as Poole in Dorset and Wick in the far north of Scotland, with four termini in London. at Euston, St Pancras. Broad Street and Fenchurch Street. It was easily the largest of the four groups formed in 1922-3, with a network of close on 10,0(X) route miles.
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