Recent content by Richard Elric

How do I get to the list on the site?

Is there a website out there that lists the Industrial railways of Britain and Ireland?

Indeed I am. I’m making a spreadsheet about it, and I’ve partly completed it, as I’ve included the railways in that were at grouping. I’m also including non-working railways as well. I just need to include the railways that existed before and the present TOCS. I’m doing something similar with...

Okay, that’s good to know. Unfortunately I don’t live near York, or the UK for that matter, but if I ever plan a trip there, I’ll stop at the Railway Museum. In the meantime I’ll just stick to Wikipedia and other things.

Oh I see now. I wonder how many companies actually operated trains though.

The Mansfield railway for example worked by the Great Central Railway. So does that technically make a different company?

I don’t believe any of them ever owned rolling Stock of there own. They were worked by Various Other companies. I could be wrong though.

Okay let me explain. When I searched Wikipedia about this, it also included railways that Were never actual separate companies, Like the Mansfield Railway, the East London Railway (A Joint Railway), and the Callander and Oban Railway, amount many others. That’s why I mentioned that.

I’m wondering about if there’s a list of British railway companies out there. If not a complete or semi complete one, let’s make one. To be included it has to: Have been an independent company at some point, not just a railway that was 100% worked by another. Owned rolling stock Preservation...

So what if after 1923, the pre Grouping railways companies remained independent? * What would change? *What new kinds of classes would emerge? *Would Nationalization ever occur?