The Story of the Cambrian - A Biography of a Railway

The Story of the Cambrian, by C. P. Gasquoine
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Title: The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway
Author: C. P. Gasquoine
Release Date: December 10, 2006 Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1922 Woodall, Minshall, Thomas & Co. Ltd. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
THE STORY OF THE CAMBRIAN
A Biography of a Railway by C. P. GASQUOINE (Editor of the “Border Counties Advertizer.”)
1922: Printed and Published by Woodall, Minshall, Thomas & Co. Ltd. (Incorporating Hughes & Son). Principality Press, Wrexham, and Caxton Press, Oswestry.
PREFACE.
Credit for the inspiration of this book belongs to my friend, Mr. W. R. Hall, of Aberystwyth, who, in one of his interesting series of “Reminiscences” of half a century of Welsh journalism, contributed to the “Cambrian News,” recently expressed his surprise that no one had hitherto attempted to write the history of the Cambrian Railways. With the termination of that Company’s separate existence, on its amalgamation with the Great Western Railway under ...