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Published by the LNWR & LYR Societies in 1996, 49 pages. A4 size booklet (A39N13WSO)
From the introduction: I regard it as a privilege to be invited to write an editorial to this joint publication of the London and North Western and Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway societies and am able to acknowledge a foot in both camps, as well as a paternal uncle who started his railway career with the LNWR.
150 years represents a significant point in time. With much flag waving, the sesiqincentennial anniversary of the GWR was marked in 1985, but we are deliberately marking the 150th anniversaries of our respective railways in 1846 and
1847, with much less "brouhaha". It is not that we are not proud of what both companies contributed to British railway history, but because we feel that a more mature approach is more appropriate to them and what they set out to do, to earn
their profits, which is why they existed.
"Gentlemen" may have travelled from Paddington, but the Lanky was the Business Line and LNWR the Premier Line. The West Coast route, under the LNWR, had the finest track standards of any railway in the country and riding in its six wheeled bogie equipped coaches was, apparently, the epitome of comfortable travel. The Lanky was innovative in very many areas, not least in the rapid, prompt and reliable movement of what we now call commuter travel. Many of its personnel led the reorganised company in 1922 and the grouped companies in 1923. The LNWR among much else, also contributed Crewe works, to which William Stanier turned, without much further thought, to build his magnificent Pacifies, arguably the finest of the type in this country - a tribute indeed.
I believe that the contributions of our various members to this publication will be regarded as a fitting commemoration of what was achieved by the far sightedness, indeed vision, of those men of 150 years ago in the combination of the companies, both LNWR and L& YR. Let us be proud of what those men contributed to our history and to the method of transport for which we have such a high regard. The contents include:BUILT AT CREWE - FOR THE LYR
HUDDERSFIELD JOINT STATION
HUDDERSFIELD GOODS WAREHOUSE
MORE WAYS THAN ONE
LYR SALOON CARRIAGES
BOX COAL WAGONS IN THE NORTH WEST
THE RIBBLE BRANCH RAILWAY & PRESTON DOCK
A TENDER TRAP
TIED TO A BLACK STRANGER
A DAY OUT ON THE "WESSY"
SPRINGWOOD JUNCTION
THE LNWR/LYR AMALGAMATION 1921
The condition of the booklet is generally very good. The cover has some minor scuffs and blemishes, but the staple spine is intact and all pages are clean, intact, unblemished and tightly bound.