The Story of the Cambrian
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Oswestry: Park Hall Camp 135.
Oswestry: Works erected at 108.
Oswestry "Advertizer's" Commentary 30.
Oswestry & Newtown Railway 29, 31, 32, 35, 40, 49, 50, 54, 57, 59, 63,
71, 77, 92, 93, 106, 107, 141.
Oswestry and Newtown Railway Bill 28.
Oswestry and Newtown Railway: Commencement of Line 36.
Oswestry and Newtown Railway: Extension to Whitchurch 69.
Oswestry and Newtown Railway: Financial State, etc. 33.
Oswestry and Newtown Railway: Financial Re-establishment 42.
Oswestry and Newtown Railway: Formal Opening 45.
Oswestry and Newtown: Regulations 111, 112, 113.
Oswestry and Welshpool Railway 30, 32.
Oswestry, Ellesmere and Whitchurch Line 72, 73, 76, 107.
Oswestry, Ellesmere and Whitchurch Line: Approved by Parliamentary
Committee 72.
Oswestry, Ellesmere and Whitchurch Railway Bill 74.
Oughterson: Mr. 41.
Ousting the Mail Coach 47.
Owen: Mr. George 6, 7, 16, 52, 60, 62, 75, 77, 92, 109, 120.
Owen: Mr. (Mayor of Welshpool) 37.
Owen: Mr. Robert 37, 44.
Owen: Mrs., of Glansevern 13, 14, 18, 20, 22, 38, 46, 51.
Pant 40.
"Pegasus": The 119.
Penmaenpool 84, 85.
Penrhyndeudraeth 87.
Piercy: Mr. Benjamin 7, 15, 17, 32, 48, 51, 52, 55, 60, 63, 80, 82, 103,
107, 128.
"Plasffynnon": The 134.
Plas Machynlleth 127.
Plynlimmon 60, 64.
Pont Aberglaslyn 87.
Pontdolgoch 61.
Pontdolgoch: Accident Averted at 117.
Pont Robert 98.
Pool Quay 41, 43, 44.
Porthdynlleyn 63, 90.
Porthywaen 41, 68, 95, 131.
Portmadoc 63, 68, 87, 88.
Poundley: Mr. 99.
Powis: Countess of 131.
Powis: Late Earl of 28, 48, 97, 98, 102, 103, 105.
Powis: Late Earl of, Resigns Chairmanship 41.
Pritchard: Mr. T. P. 12.
Prickard: Mr. T., of Dderw, Radnorshire 12.
"Prince of Wales": The 134.
Princep: Mr. 30.
Provis: Mr. W. A. 75.
Pryce: Capt. R. D., of Cyfronaith 61, 97, 110, 117, 120.
Pryse: Capt. E. L. 80.
Pugh: Mr. David, M.P., of Welshpool 43.
Pugh: Mr. J., of Llanfyllin 92.
Pwllheli 2, 63, 88, 89, 132, 133.
Pwllheli: Line Extension 90.
Railway Volunteers: Presentation to the 51.
Rea Valley Railway 9, 15, 28.
Rednal 69, 74.
Rednal: Line Projected to Ellesmere 70.
Rhayader 11, 131.
Rhayader: Royal Train to 127.
Roberts: Mr. T. D. 21.
Royal Trains 127.
Ruabon 72, 74, 85.
Ruck: Mr. L. 54.
Savin, Mr. John 78, 80.
Savin: Mr. Thomas, of Oswestry 5, 6, 16, 17, 23, 25, 42, 43, 44, 49, 55,
57, 58, 63, 64, 67, 71, 75, 78, 79, 80, 82, 88, 93, 95, 103, 107, 108,
130.
Seaham: Lord 57.
Severn Valley Local Line (Estimated Revenue) 13.
Sheriff: Mr. A. C. 93.
Shrewsbury 9, 15, 28, 29, 68, 93, 94, 102, 133.
Shrewsbury Railway Bill 29.
Shrewsbury and Montgomeryshire Line 28.
Shrewsbury and Welshpool Railway 31, 43, 50.
Shrewsbury and Welshpool Railway Bill 32.
Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway 69, 94.
Shropshire Union Canal 18.
Shropshire Union Canal Railway Scheme 31.
Slyman: Dr., of Newtown Hall 21, 116.
"Song of the Railway" 23, 24.
Stanton: Mr. John 75.
Sylfaen Hall 98.
Talerddig 57, 58, 61, 117.
Talerddig: Landslide at 118.
"Talerddig": The 61.
Talgarth: Royal Train to 127.
Talyllyn Junction 62, 130.
Tanat Valley Light Railway 94, 131.
Tanat Valley Light Railway Absorbed by the Cambrian 95.
Tanner: Mr. B. 50.
Tan-yr-allt 87.
Thornton: Mr. 41.
Three Cocks Junction 130.
Thurston: Mr. C. T. 54.
Towyn 82, 120.
"Tubal Cain": The 134.
Twymyn Bridge 60.
Vale of Clwyd Railway 59.
Vale of Glaslyn 87.
Vale of Rheidol Light Railway: Amalgamates with Cambrian 131, 132.
Van Mineral Line 99.
Van Mineral Line: Opening of 100.
Vane: Countess 55, 56, 57.
Vane: Countess, Presentation to 62.
Vane: Earl 54, 55, 56, 57, 62, 80, 103, 104, 105, 109, 110.
Vane: Earl, Special Train in Collision 118.
Vane-Tempest: Lord Herbert 122.
Venables: Rowland James 27.
Vowles: Mr. S. G. 135.
Vyrnwy: Lake 96.
Vyrnwy: Lake, Royal Train to 127.
Ward: Mr., of Donnett, Whittington 49, 50, 75, 78, 95.
Warwick: Mr. H. 136.
Webb: Mr. 44, 62.
Welshampton: Accident at 121.
Welshpool 2, 9, 15, 28, 29, 33, 36, 42, 43, 44, 48, 49, 51, 52, 93, 97,
98, 106, 113, 116, 134.
Welshpool: Claim for Railway Works 106.
Welshpool: Festivities at 36, 37, 38, 39.
Welshpool: First Train to 44.
Welshpool: Royal Train to 127.
Welshpool: Shareholders' Meeting at 30.
Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway 132.
Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway: Opening of the 98.
Welshpool and Newtown Line Inspected 50.
Welshpool and Oswestry Line 30, 32.
Welshpool and Shrewsbury Railway 31.
Welshpool and Shrewsbury Railway Bill 32.
Welsh Railway Union Bill 129.
Wem 74.
West Midland, Shrewsbury and Welsh Coast Railway 88, 92, 94, 97.
West Midland, Shrewsbury and Welsh Coast Railway: Preliminary Prospectus
68.
West Shropshire Mineral Railway 69.
Whalley: Mr. George Hammond 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 20, 22, 25, 28, 43, 50,
58, 63, 71, 72, 92, 93, 103, 130.
Whalley: Mr. George Hammond, Assaults Mr. Gartside 107, 108.
Whitchurch 1, 69, 70, 75, 76, 78, 79, 91, 121, 133.
Whitchurch: Appeal against G. W. Railway Proposals 71.
Whitchurch: Royal Train to 127.
Whittington 71, 74.
Whixall Moss 76, 77, 78.
Williams: Mr. Abraham, of Aberdovey 86.
Williams: Alderman C. E., of Oswestry 94.
Williamson: Mr. Samuel 126, 135, 137.
Wrexham 2, 72, 74, 127, 129.
Wrexham: Protest Meeting at 124.
Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway 129.
Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay Railway 107, 129.
Wynn: Colonel, M.P. 25, 27.
Wynn: Lady Watkin Williams 36, 38.
Wynn: Lady Watkin Williams, Presentation to 39.
Wynn: Sir Watkin Williams 27, 41, 43, 54.
Wynne: Mr. W. W. E., of Peniarth, Towyn 134.
Ynyslas 64, 65, 80, 82, 83.
Ynyslas: Bridge Attempted 80, 81.
Ynyslas: Failure as a Seaside Resort 64, 65.
Footnotes:
{2} The reader sufficiently interested in statistical details and
comparative tables will find further particulars concerning some of these
points in an appendix at the end of the book.
{4} An admirable sketch of the late Mr. Davies's career appeared from
the pen of an old friend in the "Barry Dock News" at the time of the
opening of the Barry Docks in July 1889 and was reprinted in summarised
form in his obituary notice in "Bye Gones," July 1890. Besides his
connection with the Cambrian, it gives details of his many other
activities, including his representation of Cardigan Boroughs in the
House of Commons from 1874 to 1885, and on the merging of the boroughs
into the county, at that date, for Cardiganshire till 1886, when he was
defeated on becoming an opponent of Mr. Gladstone's Irish policy; his
services on the Montgomery County Council, and his magnificent generosity
to the Calvinistic Methodist Churches and in aid of the cause of Welsh
higher education, a liberality which has since been continued in fullest
measure by his family.
{8} This phrase of Shirley Brooks's was probably applied rather to the
suspension bridge, which Telford planned to carry the London and Holyhead
road over the Straits, and which was opened on January 30th, 1826, but it
not less accurately describes Stephenson's famous railway tubular bridge,
begun in 1846 and completed in 1850, at a cost of about 600,000 pounds.
{16} See "Minutes of the proceedings of the Institute of Civil
Engineers," published June, 1889. He died on March 24th, 1888, having
been engaged on nearly all the railways started in North and Central
Wales, and later on the Sardinian railways, where he formed a close
intimacy with Garibaldi. He returned to Marchwiel Hall, near Wrexham,
where he laid out one of the finest cricket grounds in the Kingdom. He
was a J. P. for Denbighshire and declined many invitations to enter
Parliament.
{20} The original station at Newtown was a wooden shed still in the
station yard, but now used as a coal merchant's office.
{34} Mr. Howell's yeoman services in promoting these local lines was
appropriately recognized by his fellow-citizens in tangible fashion. The
Howell family have in their possession a silver inkstand, bearing the
following inscription:--"Presented by the Inhabitants of the Town and
neighbourhood of Welshpool To Abraham Howell, Esq., In grateful
acknowledgement of his exertions in obtaining a railway through the
County of Montgomery, July, 1855."
{40} A mysterious measurement arrived at, according to Mr. F. S.
Williams, an authority on the history of railway construction, on no
scientific data, but due to the fact that the old "way leaves," or wooden
rails, put down to economise the wear and tear of colliery trains, were
so adapted to admit of the wagons passing through five feet gateways.
{42} Mr. Abraham Howell's evidence before Lord Stanley's Committee,
1862.
{43} Afterwards called Buttington.
{51} The rebuilding of this bridge, only completed last year, was the
last large engineering work accomplished on the Cambrian system prior to
its amalgamation with the Great Western.
{54} The Board given in "Bradshaw's Shareholders' Guide" for 1860 is
Earl Vane (Chairman); Sir W. W. Wynn (Vice-Chairman); Mr. Robert Davies
Pryce, Cyfronydd, Montgomeryshire, and Mr. John Foulkes, Aberdovey, with
Mr. David Howell, secretary, Messrs R. and B. Piercy, engineers, and
Messrs. Howell and Morgan, Machynlleth, solicitors.
{63} The Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway Company, of which the
original directors were Messrs. David Williams, Deudreath Castle,
(Chairman); Jasper Wilson Johns, 46, Cumberland Street, Hyde Park,
London, and Rhiwport, Welshpool, (Vice Chairman); William Lawrence Banks,
Walton House, Brecon; Wm. Gray, The Grove, Lee, Kent; and Henry Gartside,
Wharmton Towers, Greenfield, Saddleworth; and the Secretary, Mr. W.
Roberts, 9 A, Bridge Street, Westminster.
{91} The little train so smoothly glides
Along our lovely valley,
And faster than the lightning flash
It travels on its journey.
We leave Llangynog town at nine
Without a darkening frown,
And fleeter than the cuckoo's flight
At three reach London town.
{94} See head of this Chapter.
{114} Later the colours were changed to cream and green, with yellow and
red lines, until January, 1909, when, for economical reasons, following
the examples of some other railways, the Cambrian repainted all their
coaches entirely in dark green, with yellow lines.
{118} For some years Earl Vane had a private saloon on the railway,
painted in the family colours, yellow and lilac, with his coat of arms on
every door, and fitted with a water tank on the roof, but it was found
too cumbrous for continued use on the main line, and was afterwards
converted into an ordinary carriage, and still runs, in this more mundane
form, on the Tanat Valley branch.
{131} See "Some Earlier Branches."
{132} See "Some Earlier Branches."
{133} On Mr. Herbert Jones's retirement at the end of 1918, the offices
of locomotive superintendent and engineer were combined, and have since
been jointly occupied by Mr. G. C. McDonald.
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