The Story of the Cambrian: A Biography of a Railway
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Chapters (621)
- THE STORY OF THE CAMBRIAN
- PREFACE.
- CHAPTER I. BIRTH AND PARENTAGE.
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- II.
- III.
- CHAPTER II. A BIRTHDAY PARTY.
- CHAPTER III. EARLY DEVELOPMENTS AND DIFFICULTIES.
- THE CEREMONY.
- CHAPTER IV. OSWESTRY TO NEWTOWN.
- CHAPTER V. FROM THE SEVERN TO THE SEA.
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- CHAPTER VI. THE BATTLE OF ELLESMERE.
- CHAPTER VII. THE COAST SECTION.
- CHAPTER VIII. SOME EARLIER BRANCHES.
- CHAPTER IX. CONSOLIDATION.
- CHAPTER X. INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.
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- CHAPTER XI. THE CAMBRIAN OF TO-DAY.
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- APPENDIX.
- LIST OF CHAIRMEN OF THE CAMBRIAN RAILWAYS SINCE THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE VARIOUS INDEPENDENT UNDERTAKINGS IN 1864.
- SOME OLD TIME TABLES.
- 1860. OSWESTRY AND NEWTOWN RAILWAY:
- 1860. LLANIDLOES AND NEWTOWN RAILWAY.
- 1864. AFTER THE LINE WAS OPENED TO ABERYSTWYTH.
- 1864. AFTER THE LINE WAS OPENED TO ABERYSTWYTH.
- Index.
- Footnotes:
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