List of constituents of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway
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Constituent companies
The following made up the London, Midland and Scottish RailwayLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway
The London Midland and Scottish Railway was a British railway company. It was formed on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act of 1921, which required the grouping of over 120 separate railway companies into just four...
as a result of the Railways Act 1921
Railways Act 1921
The Railways Act 1921, also known as the Grouping Act, was an enactment by the British government of David Lloyd George intended to stem the losses being made by many of the country's 120 railway companies, move the railways away from internal competition, and to retain some of the benefits which...
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- Caledonian RailwayCaledonian RailwayThe Caledonian Railway was a major Scottish railway company. It was formed in the early 19th century and it was absorbed almost a century later into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, in the 1923 railway grouping, by means of the Railways Act 1921...
(CalR) 1114.5 route miles (1794 km) - Furness RailwayFurness RailwayThe Furness Railway was a railway company operating in the Furness area of Lancashire in North West England.-History:The company was established on May 23, 1844 when the Furness Railway Act was passed by Parliament...
(Furness) 158 miles (254 km) - Glasgow and South Western RailwayGlasgow and South Western RailwayThe Glasgow and South Western Railway , one of the pre-grouping railway companies, served a triangular area of south-west Scotland, between Glasgow, Stranraer and Carlisle...
493.5 miles (794 km) - Highland RailwayHighland RailwayThe Highland Railway was one of the smaller British railways before the Railways Act 1921; it operated north of Perth railway station in Scotland and served the farthest north of Britain...
(HR) 506 miles (814 km) - London and North Western RailwayLondon and North Western RailwayThe London and North Western Railway was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922. It was created by the merger of three companies – the Grand Junction Railway, the London and Birmingham Railway and the Manchester and Birmingham Railway...
(LNWR) - with which the Lancashire and Yorkshire RailwayLancashire and Yorkshire RailwayThe Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway was a major British railway company before the 1923 Grouping. It was incorporated in 1847 from an amalgamation of several existing railways...
(L&YR) had been amalgamated on 1 January 1922. Total route mileage (1923) was 2667.5 miles (4293 km) - Midland RailwayMidland RailwayThe Midland Railway was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844 to 1922, when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway....
(MidR) 2170.75 miles (3473 km) - North Staffordshire RailwayNorth Staffordshire RailwayThe North Staffordshire Railway was a British railway company formed in 1845 to promote a number of lines in the Staffordshire Potteries and surrounding areas in Staffordshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire and Shropshire....
(NSR) 220.75 miles (355 km)
Subsidiary Companies
Independently operated lines- Cleator and Workington Junction RailwayCleator and Workington Junction RailwayThe Cleator & Workington Junction Railway was located in West Cumberland in Northern England, serving the towns of Cleator Moor and Workington and intermediate villages...
30.5 miles (49 km) (partially worked by the Furness Railway) - Knott End Railway 11.5 miles (19 km)
- Maryport and Carlisle RailwayMaryport and Carlisle RailwayThe Maryport & Carlisle Railway was a small but highly profitable railway formed in 1836 to connect the town of Maryport to the county town of Carlisle and to allow the output of collieries inland of Maryport to be more cheaply transported to Maryport for oward movement by sea. Its headquarters...
42.75 miles (68.8 km) - North London RailwayNorth London RailwayThe North London Railway was a railway company that opened lines connecting the north of London to the East and West India Docks. The main east to west route is now part the North London Line. Other lines operated by the company fell into disuse, but were later revived as part of the Docklands...
16 miles (26 km) (managed by the LNWR) - Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction RailwayStratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction RailwayThe Stratford Upon Avon & Midland Junction Railway was a small independent railway company which ran a line across the empty, untouched centre of England. It visited the counties of Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire and a little of Buckinghamshire, only existing as the SMJR from 1909 to...
67.5 miles (109 km) - Wirral RailwayWirral RailwayThe Wirral Railway was incorporated in 1863 as the Hoylake Railway , with powers to build lines from Birkenhead to New Brighton, and to Parkgate on the western side of the Wirral Peninsula; the latter line was not built. Between 1872 and 1882 the HR was renamed twice, and extensions of the line...
13.75 miles (22 km)
Independent lines for which rolling stock was provided by other companies
- Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith RailwayCockermouth, Keswick and Penrith RailwayThe Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway was incorporated by Act of Parliament on 1 August 1861, for a line connecting the town of Cockermouth with the London and North Western Railway West Coast Main Line at Penrith. Arrangements for the use of the stations at either end The Cockermouth,...
30.75 miles (49 km)
Non-working companies
- Originally leased to or worked by LNWR
- Charnwood Forest RailwayCharnwood Forest RailwayThe Charnwood Forest Railway was a branch line in Leicestershire constructed by the Charnwood Forest Company between 1881 and 1883. The branch line ran from Coalville to the town of Loughborough....
10.5 miles (17 km) - Dearne Valley RailwayDearne Valley RailwayThe Dearne Valley Railway was a railway line which ran through the valley of the River Dearne in South Yorkshire. It was incorporated by an Act of Parliament on 6 August 1897 to build a line between Brierley Junction, on the main line of the Hull and Barnsley Railway, to junctions with the Great...
21 miles (34 km) - Harborne Railway 2.5 miles (4 km)
- Mold and Denbigh Junction Railway 15 miles (24 km)
- Shropshire Union Railways and Canal CompanyShropshire Union Railways and Canal CompanyThe Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company was a Company in England, formed in 1846, which managed several canals and a railway. It was leased by the London and North Western Railway from 1847, and bought by it in 1922, but continued to act as a semi-autonomous body, managing the canals until...
29.25 miles (47 km) [part of this system was jointly leased with the Great Western RailwayGreat Western RailwayThe Great Western Railway was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament in 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838...
(GWR)]
- Charnwood Forest Railway
- Originally leased to or worked by MidR
- Tottenham and Forest Gate RailwayTottenham and Forest Gate RailwayThe Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway was a railway line in north London, formed by an Act of Parliament of 1890 and built as joint venture between the Midland Railway and the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway...
6 miles (10 km) - Yorkshire Dales Railway 9 miles (14 km)
- Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway
- Originally leased to or worked by CalR
- Arbroath and Forfar RailwayArbroath and Forfar RailwayThe Arbroath and Forfar Railway was a railway that ran from the North East coast of Scotland at Arbroath inland to Guthrie on the Aberdeen Railway and then west to Forfar where is connected with the Scottish Midland Junction Railway. It was incorporated on 19 May 1836.-History:The Arbroath and...
14.75 miles (24 km) - Brechin and Edzell District Railway 6.25 miles (10 km)
- Callander and Oban RailwayCallander and Oban RailwayThe Callander and Oban Railway company was formed in 1864 with the objective of linking Callander, Scotland to the west coast port of Oban over challenging terrain, particularly at Glen Ogle and the Pass of Brander at Loch Awe. Callander had been reached in 1858 by the Dunblane, Doune and Callander...
99.75 miles (161 km) - Dundee and Newtyle RailwayDundee and Newtyle RailwayThe Dundee and Newtyle Railway opened in 1831 and was the first railway in the north of Scotland. It was built to carry goods from Strathmore to the port of Dundee and was chartered with an Act of Parliament that received royal assent in 26 May 1826 and opened in 1831. The railway originally ran...
14.5 miles (23 km) - Killin RailwayKillin RailwayThe Killin Railway opened to traffic on 13 March 1886, linking the Callander and Oban Railway to Killin.- History :Passenger services between and were withdrawn at the outbreak of the Second World War on 11 September 1939, and were not reinstated after the war...
5.25 miles (8 km) - Lanarkshire and Ayrshire RailwayLanarkshire and Ayrshire RailwayThe Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway was a railway company in Scotland built in the late 19th century that provided services between Ardrossan and Glasgow, with branches to Irvine and Kilbirnie. The line was operated by the Caledonian Railway with an aim to compete with the Glasgow and South...
36.25 miles (58 km) - Solway Junction RailwaySolway Junction RailwayThe Solway Junction Railway ran between the Caledonian Railway near Kirtlebridge and the Brayton station of the Maryport and Carlisle Railway. The Act of Parliament was granted on 30 June 1864 and the line was opened in 1869. It involved a iron girder viaduct between Bowness-on-Solway and Annan...
12.25 miles (20 km)
- Arbroath and Forfar Railway
- Originally leased to or worked by HR
- Dornoch Light RailwayDornoch Light RailwayDornoch Light Railway was an historic railway in Scotland that ran from on the Sutherland Railway to the county town of Sutherland, Dornoch. This railway is closed....
7.75 miles (12 km) - Wick and Lybster Light Railway 13.5 miles (22 km)
- Dornoch Light Railway
- Originally leased to or worked by NSR
- Leek and Manifold Valley Light RailwayLeek and Manifold Valley Light RailwayThe Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway was a narrow gauge railway in Staffordshire, Great Britain that operated between 1904 and 1934. When in operation, the line mainly carried milk from dairies in the region, acting as a feeder to the standard gauge system. It also provided passenger...
(narrow gauge) 8.25 miles (13 km)
- Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway
- Originally leased to or worked by several component companies
- North & South Western Junction Railway 5.25 miles (8 km)
- Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway 82.25 miles (132 km)
After 1923 amalgamations comprised wholly in the LMS
- Carlisle Citadel Station and Goods Traffic Joint Committees (originally joint owned by various companies)
- were LNW/MidR joint:
- Ashby and Nuneaton Railway 29.25 miles (47 km)
- Enderby Railway 2.25 miles (4 km)
- were LNW/L&YR joint:
- Lancashire Union Railway 12.75 miles (21 km)
- North Union RailwayNorth Union RailwayThe North Union Railway was an early British railway company, formed in 1834.-Origins:The North Union Railway resulted from the first railway amalgamation in British history. The two companies were the Wigan Branch Railway and the Wigan and Preston Junction Railway...
6.5 miles (10 km) - Preston and Longridge RailwayPreston and Longridge RailwayThe Preston and Longridge Railway was a branch line in Lancashire, England. Originally designed to carry quarried stone in horse-drawn wagons, it became part of an ambitious plan to link the Lancashire coast to the heart of Yorkshire...
8 miles (13 km) - Preston and Wyre Joint RailwayPreston and Wyre Joint Railwayright|256px|thumb|Carleton level crossing between Poulton-le-Fylde and Laytonright|256px|thumb|Thornton for Cleveleys station, 2005The Preston and Wyre Joint Railway – in full, the Preston & Wyre Railway and Dock Company – was the result of a merger in 1839 between:* Preston & Wyre...
46 miles (74 km)
- was Furness/MidR joint
- Furness and Midland Joint Railway 9.75 miles (16 km)
- was Furness/LNWR joint
- Whitehaven Cleator and Egremont Railway 35 miles (56 km)
- were Cal/GSW joint
- Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint RailwayGlasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint RailwayThe Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway was a railway co-owned by Caledonian Railway and Glasgow and South Western Railway and was an amalgation of two different lines: the Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway and the Glasgow and Kilmarnock Joint Railway.-Glasgow, Barrhead and...
29.75 miles (48 km) - Glasgow and Paisley Joint RailwayGlasgow and Paisley Joint RailwayThe Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway company was formed in 1837 to provide a railway link between Glasgow and Paisley, Scotland. It was promoted jointly by the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway and the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway....
14.25 miles (23 km)
- Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway
After 1923 amalgamations joint with London & North Eastern Railway
- Axholme Joint Railway 27.75 miles (45 km)
- Cheshire Lines CommitteeCheshire Lines CommitteeThe Cheshire Lines Committee was the second largest joint railway in Great Britain, with 143 route miles. Despite its name, approximately 55% of its system was in Lancashire. In its publicity material it was often styled as the Cheshire Lines Railway...
(1/3 owned) 142 miles (229 km) - City of Glasgow Union RailwayCity Union LineThe City of Glasgow Union Railway - City Union Line , is a railway line in Glasgow, Scotland. The line is still open, with the section north of Bellgrove still open to passenger trains.-Description of the route:...
- Dumbarton & BallochCaledonian and Dunbartonshire Junction RailwayThe Caledonian and Dunbartonshire Junction Railway, also known as Dumbarton & Balloch Joint Railway, was built to connect Balloch at the southern end of Loch Lomond down the course of the river Leven to Dumbarton, and east along the north bank of the River Clyde to Bowling, West Dunbartonshire, at...
(including Loch LomondLoch LomondLoch Lomond is a freshwater Scottish loch, lying on the Highland Boundary Fault. It is the largest lake in Great Britain by surface area. The lake contains many islands, including Inchmurrin, the largest fresh-water island in the British Isles, although the lake itself is smaller than many Irish...
steamers) 7 miles (11 km) - Dundee and Arbroath RailwayDundee and Arbroath RailwayThe Dundee and Arbroath Railway was a railway link between those two towns in Scotland.-History:The railway company received its Parliamentary Act on 19 May 1836. It was planned as a gauge railway, because, at that time, it was expected to be a purely local railway with no connection to the...
(including Carmyllie Light Railway) 23 miles (37 km) - Great Central and Midland Joint RailwayGreat Central and Midland Joint RailwayThe Great Central and Midland Joint Railway, formerly, before 1897, Sheffield and Midland Railway Companies' Committee, was a collection of joint railways, mainly in the Manchester and South Yorkshire areas...
40.25 miles (65 km) - Great Central, Hull & Barnsley and Midland Joint Railway (1/3 share) 4 miles (6 km)
- Great Central and North Staffordshire Joint RailwayMacclesfield, Bollington and Marple RailwayThe Macclesfield, Bollington and Marple Railway was a railway line, 16 km long, linking Macclesfield with Marple in east Cheshire, England, opened in 1869 by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway and the North Staffordshire Railway , as a part of an alternative link between...
11 miles (18 km) - Great Northern and London and North Western Joint RailwayGreat Northern and London and North Western Joint RailwayThe Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway was a joint railway owned by the Great Northern Railway and the London and North Western Railway in east Leicestershire.-Location:...
45 miles (72 km) - Halifax and Ovenden Railway 2.5 miles (4 km)
- Halifax High Level 3 miles (5 km)
- Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway (a “ joint working arrangement”) 9.5 miles (15 km)
- Methley Joint Line 6 miles (10 km)
- Midland and Great Northern Joint RailwayMidland and Great Northern Joint RailwayThe Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, was a joint railway owned by the Midland Railway and the Great Northern Railway in eastern England, affectionately known as the 'Muddle and Get Nowhere' to generations of passengers, enthusiasts, and other users.The main line ran from Peterborough to...
183.25 miles (295 km) - Norfolk and Suffolk Joint RailwayNorfolk and Suffolk Joint RailwayThe Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway was a British joint railway company.The NSJR was owned by the Great Eastern Railway and the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and consisted of two distinct sections: a line between North Walsham and Cromer via Mundesley, and a coastal section running...
(was GER/MidR/GNR joint) 22.5 miles (36 km) - Oldham, Ashton and Guide Bridge RailwayOldham, Ashton and Guide Bridge RailwayThe Oldham, Ashton and Guide Bridge Junction Railway was an early British railway company, which opened in 1861, connecting Oldham, Ashton and Guide Bridge.-Plans:...
6.25 miles (10 km) - Otley and Ilkley Joint RailwayOtley and Ilkley Joint RailwayThe Otley and Ilkley Joint Railway was a railway line running between the towns of Otley and Ilkley in West Yorkshire. The line was a managed and run jointly by the Midland Railway and the North Eastern Railway and was long...
6.25 miles (10 km) - Perth General Station Committee (2/3 share)
- Prince’s Dock, Glasgow 1.25 miles (2 km)
- South Yorkshire Joint RailwaySouth Yorkshire Joint RailwaySouth Yorkshire Joint Railway was a committee formed in 1903, between the Great Central Railway , the Great Northern Railway , the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway , the Midland Railway and the North Eastern Railway to oversee the construction of a new railway in the Doncaster area of South...
(2/5 share) 20.5 miles (33 km) - Swinton and Knottingley Joint RailwaySwinton and Knottingley Joint RailwayThe Swinton and Knottingley Joint Railway was a British railway company formed to connect the Midland and Great Central lines at Swinton, north of Rotherham, with the North Eastern Railway at Ferrybridge, near Knottingley, a distance of sixteen miles, opening up a more direct route between York and...
19.5 miles (31 km) - Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway 4.75 miles (8 km)
After 1923 amalgamations joint with GWR
- Birkenhead RailwayBirkenhead RailwayThe Birkenhead Railway was formed on 1 August 1859 as a result of the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Railway merging with the Chester and Birkenhead Railway. The new company was originally called the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway, but in 1859 shortened its name to The...
56.5 miles (91 km) - Brecon and Merthyr Railway & London and North Western Joint Railway 6 miles (10 km)
- Brynmawr and Western Valleys Railway 1.25 miles (2 km)
- Clee Hill RailwayClee Hill JunctionClee Hill Junction was a railway junction in Shropshire, England, where the line from Titterstone Clee Hill joined the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, a LNWR/GWR joint line. It was situated just to the north of . The line to Clee Hill ran up from the village of Bitterley, where a marshalling yard...
6 miles (10 km) - Clifton Extension RailwayClifton Extension RailwayThe Clifton Extension Railway was a joint railway in Bristol, owned by the Great Western Railway and the Midland Railway companies.-Description of line:...
9 miles (14 km) - Halesowen Joint RailwayHalesowen Joint RailwayThe Halesowen Joint Railway was a British pre-grouping railway company that opened a six mile line in 1883 in the Midlands. It later became a joint railway owned by the Midland Railway and the Great Western Railway....
6 miles (10 km) - Nantybwch and Rhymney Railway 3 miles (5 km)
- Severn and Wye RailwaySevern and Wye RailwayThe Severn and Wye Railway was a small railway network in west Gloucestershire that was constructed to allow exploitation of the mineral resources of the Forest of Dean. The Severn and Wye Railway and Canal Company began construction of the tramway and the Lydney Canal in 1810. In 1868 the tramway...
39 miles (63 km) - Shrewsbury and Hereford RailwayShrewsbury and Hereford RailwayThe Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway was an independently developed English railway, the first to run train services in Herefordshire.Built between 1850 and 1853, it crossed a number of services by both the Great Western Railway and London and North Western Railway companies, became a joint...
82.75 miles (133 km) - Tenbury Railway 5 miles (8 km)
- Vale of Towy RailwayVale of Towy RailwayThe Vale of Towy Railway was a Welsh railway that provided an 11.25 mile-long extension of the Llanelly Railway from Llandeilo to Llandovery...
(owned by GWR but leased jointly) 11 miles (18 km) - West London Railway 2.25 miles (4 km)
- Wrexham and Minera Railway 3 miles (5 km)
After 1923 amalgamations joint with Southern Railway
- Somerset and Dorset Joint RailwaySomerset and Dorset Joint RailwayThe Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway – almost always referred to as "the S&D" – was an English railway line connecting Bath in north east Somerset and Bournemouth now in south east Dorset but then in Hampshire...
105 miles (169 km)
After 1923 amalgamations joint with Metropolitan District RailwayMetropolitan District RailwayThe Metropolitan District Railway was the predecessor of the District line of the London Underground. Set up on 29 July 1864, at first to complete the "Inner Circle" railway around central London, it was gradually extended into the suburbs...
- Whitechapel & Bow Railway 2 miles (3 km)
Irish lines
- Dundalk, Newry and Greenore Railway 26.5 miles (43 km) - operated from 1933 by the GNR(I)
- Northern Counties Committee's lines 265.25 miles (427 km)
- Joint Midland and Great Northern of Ireland 91 miles (146 km)
- County Donegal Railways Joint CommitteeCounty Donegal Railways Joint CommitteeThe County Donegal Railways Joint Committee operated an extensive 3 foot gauge railway system serving county Donegal, Ireland,from 1906 until 1960...
(owned jointly with the Great Northern Railway of Ireland)
Shareholdings
- Great Western RailwayGreat Western RailwayThe Great Western Railway was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament in 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838...
(minority shareholding) - London and North Eastern RailwayLondon and North Eastern RailwayThe London and North Eastern Railway was the second-largest of the "Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain...
- London Electric Railway until 30th June 1933
- London Passenger Transport BoardLondon Passenger Transport BoardThe London Passenger Transport Board was the organisation responsible for public transport in London, UK, and its environs from 1933 to 1948...
from 1st July 1933 - Great Northern Committee's lines (Ireland) (minority shareholding)
- Great Southern RailwaysGreat Southern RailwaysThe Great Southern Railways Company was an Irish company that from 1925 until 1945 owned and operated all railways that lay wholly within the Irish Free State .-Formation:...
(minority shareholding)