The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) was a British railway company. It was formed on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act 1921, which required...
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London, Midland and Scottish Railway had the largest stock of steam locomotives of any of the 'Big Four' Grouping, i.e. pre-Nationalisation railway companies...
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The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) inherited several styles of coaching stock from its constituents. Stock built by the LMS itself can be categorised...
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The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) was created under the terms of the Railways Act 1921. The first schedule to that Act listed four groups...
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Midland and Scottish Railway at grouping in 1923. The Midland had a large network of lines emanating from Derby, stretching to London St Pancras, Manchester...
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became a constituent of the London, Midland and Scottish (LMS) railway, and, in 1948, the London Midland Region of British Railways. The company was formed...
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Midland Railway (which it always referred to as engines), followed its small engine policy. The policy was later adopted by the London, Midland and Scottish...
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The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) was involved in the development of railway electrification of Britain. Like the LNER and the SR the LMS...
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The Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway (SMJR) was a railway company in the southern Midlands of England, formed at the beginning of 1909...
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Railways (BR), and initially consisted of ex-London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) lines in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The region was managed...
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Henry Fowler (engineer) (category London, Midland and Scottish Railway people)
English railway engineer, and was chief mechanical engineer of the Midland Railway and subsequently the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. Fowler was...
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Thompson v London, Midland and Scottish Railway Co Ltd [1930] 1 KB 41 is an English contract law case, concerning the exclusion of liability. It was described...
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by the Midland Railway (MR), to connect its extensive rail network, across the Midlands and North of England, to a dedicated line into London. After rail...
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largest constituent of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. The L&YR was incorporated in 1847 by the Manchester and Leeds Railway Act (No. 3) 1847 (10...
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The railways were nationalised in 1948 and most LMS lines, including the North London route, then came under the control of the London Midland Region...
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James Anderson (mechanical engineer) (category Midland Railway people)
1945) was a mechanical engineer of the Midland Railway and later the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and had a great influence on the latter's adoption...
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The Midland Hotel is a Streamline Moderne building in Morecambe, Lancashire, England. It was built by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS), in...
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Irish railway engineer, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London Midland and Scottish Railway, son of the above All pages with titles containing Ivatt...
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Northern Counties Committee (redirect from Midland Railway (Belfast and Northern Counties Railway Purchase) Act 1903)
Committee became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS). After the nationalisation of Britain's railways in 1948 the NCC was briefly part...
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Midlands, and the fifth busiest station in the Midlands as a whole. Leicester station was opened in 1840 by the Midland Counties Railway and rebuilt in...
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different numbering and classification schemes were used for the locomotives owned by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) and its constituent companies...
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William Stanier (category London, Midland and Scottish Railway people)
September 1965) was an English railway engineer, and was chief mechanical engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. Sir William Stanier was born...
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LMS Fowler Class 3F (category London, Midland and Scottish Railway locomotives)
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Fowler 3F 0-6-0T is a class of steam locomotives, often known as Jinty. They represent the ultimate development...
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companies (the Midland into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Great Northern into the London and North Eastern Railway). The M&GNJR maintained...
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Bedford railway station (formerly Bedford Midland Road and historically referred to on some signage as Bedford Midland) is the larger of two railway stations...
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George Ivatt (category London, Midland and Scottish Railway people)
Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London Midland and Scottish Railway. He was the son of the Great Northern Railway locomotive engineer Henry Ivatt. George...
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Charles Fairburn (category London, Midland and Scottish Railway people)
electric traction development work. In 1934 he joined the London, Midland and Scottish Railway where he was responsible for the introduction of new classes...
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into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923. Many of its principal routes are still used, and the original main line between Carlisle and Glasgow...
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the Railway Technical Centre were housed there. The station is an interchange point between the Midland Main Line from London St Pancras to Leeds and long-distance...
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LMS diesel shunters (category London, Midland and Scottish Railway locomotives)
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) pioneered the use of diesel shunting locomotives in Great Britain. The variety of experimental and production...
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