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Title: The Story of the Cambrian
A Biography of a Railway

Author: C. P. Gasquoine

Release Date: December 10, 2006 [eBook #20074]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF THE CAMBRIAN***

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.")

[Picture: Cambrian Railways Company stamp]

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 the Government's grouping scheme,
"the hour" for such an effort seems to have struck; and Mr. Hall's
pointed indication of Oswestry as the most appropriate place where the
work could be undertaken, not only by reason of its close connection with
the official headquarters of the Cambrian, but because, in a certain
newspaper office there lay the files containing so many old records of
the railway's birth and early struggles for existence, even the selection
of "the man" appeared so severely circumscribed that to the present
writer it virtually amounted to what, in certain ecclesiastical circles,
is termed "a call."

Responsibility for its acceptance, however, and for the execution of the
task, with i