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Cambrian Railways

LC control no.nb2005002258
Descriptive conventionsrda
Corporate name headingCambrian Railways
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Variant(s)Cambrian Railway
See alsoAbsorbed corporate body: Mid-Wales Railway
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Absorbing corporate body: Great Western Railway (Great Britain)
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Beginning date1864
Ending date1923
Associated placeWales, Mid Welsh Borders (England and Wales)
LocatedOswestry (England)
Field of activityRailroads
Found inCambrian Railways timetables & working timetables of 1904, 1977
British Steam Railway Miscellanea WWW site, 31 Mar. 2005: GWR family tree (in 1922, the GWR absorbed the Cambrian Railways)
BL auth. file, 31 Mar. 2005 (hdg.: Cambrian Railways)
Brecon to Newtown, 2007: p.[4-5] (Mid-Wales Railway obtained Acts [of Parliament] in 1859 and 1860; opened in 1864; bought by the Cambrian Railways in 1904)
The Cambrian Railway ambulance movement, 2017: p.1 (established 1864 from the merger of the Llanidloes & Newtown Railway [no publications on British Library database], Oswestry & Newtown Railway [no publications on British Library database], Newtown & Machynlleth Railway [no publications on British Library database] and Oswestry, Ellesmere & Whitchurch Railway [no publications on British Library database]; became part of the GWR in 1923; headquarters in Oswestry)
Associated languageeng
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