The inheritance ; the Great Western railway between the wars

Bryan, Tim2013

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The 21 years between the end of the Great War and the outbreak of World War 2 were a confusing mix of triumph and tragedy for the Great Western Railway and its employees. This comprehensive new history covers these two decades of railway and social history with the content falling neatly into two sections.The first section chronicles the effects of the postwar grouping of 1923 which left the GWR in a strong position compared to the other Big Four it not only retained its name and identity, but absorbed some large and prosperous companies in the process, not least a rich inheritance in South Wales, both in terms of the coal business and the