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Midland & South Western Junction Railway Oakwood Library of Railway History #16
The Midland & South Western Junction Railway by TB Sands
Soft Cover Approx 5 x 7.5 inches
48 pages
Copyright 1959
CONTENTS
The Manchester & Southampton Railway
The Midland & South Western Junction Railway
Swindon, Marlborough and Andover
Hard Times
Slow Progress
The Cheltenham Extension
Open to Cheltenham
Rising from the Depths
The Marlborough & Grafton
Some Abortive Schemes
Alliance with the Midland
Doubling the Track
Rushey Platt and Swindon
Savernake, Wolfhall, and Grafton
Civil Engineering
Locomotives
Passenger Stock
Train Services
The End of the M&SW
Chairman and Directors
Under the Great Western
British Railways
Appendix
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
The Midland & South Western Junction Railway by T. B. Sands
The Midland & South Western Junction Railway formed a picturesque cross-country link between two of the large railway companies but was a wholly independent concern which worked its line with a stud of fascinating and attractive engines and competed vigorously for through traffic against a formidable rival-the Great Western Railway. After early years of poverty and failure it reached a peak of outstanding enterprise and efficiency and became a line of vital strategic importance in time of war, affording a direct route from the north to Southampton.
Mr. Sands brings the story up to date by recounting how the M. & S.W. route fared after it had passed into the hands of the G.W.R. in 1923 and thence into public ownership in 1948.
With a Complete Table of Locomotives;
21 Illustrations; and a map.
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