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North Staffordshire Railway, The by Christiansen Miller w Dust Jacket
The North Staffordshire Railway By Rex Christiansen & RW Miller Dust Jacket Copyright 1971 333 Pages
Nicknamed the Knotty because of its emblem: immortalised by the Potteries Loop: renowned for its enterprise in switching carriage lighting from oil to electric spurning gas, the North Staffordshire Railway abounded in character.
Its average passenger fare was no more than sixpence, yet it made good profits paying, mainly in the final years, an admirable 5 per cent. Although it was the life-blood of one of Britain's most industrialised areas, it also served a delightful rural hinterland. Besides its own system, including two lines of different narrow gauges, its running powers extended over three hundred miles of other railways and North Staffordshire engines were regularly seen at places as far afield as Llandudno, Manchester Birmingham, Rugby, Nottingham and Wellingborough.
Once it is recorded, the company lost a wedding cake, collected from a station by an imposter, or was it a jealous lover? Certainly the Knotty had its own lovers: bigger companies like the London & North Western the Midland, the Great Northern and the Great Central: but while it often flirted, it resisted marriage and remained independent until grouped into the LMS in 1923. This history, which sets the railway against its industrial and economic background, is based on original research and is brought up to the present day when the system forms an important part of the electrified main line from London to Manchester.
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