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	British Cities
		Gloucester (pronounced ['gl?st?]) is a city and district in south-west England, close to the Welsh border.
		Gloucester is a port, linked via the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal to the Severn estuary, allowing larger ships to reach the docks than would be possible on the tidal reaches of the river itself.
		Gloucester gained notoriety in 1994 with the arrest of Fred West and his wife Rose West for the abduction and murder of more than a dozen young women between 1967 and 1987, including one of their daughters.
	www.webritish.co.uk /city_display.asp?city=Gloucester (735 words)

	Gloucester Docks: Gloucester and Cheltenham Tramroad
		An early type of railway for horse-drawn wagons was opened between Gloucester and Cheltenham in 1811, the main purpose being to facilitate the carriage of coal to Cheltenham.
		The opening of the tramroad in 1811 induced the Canal Company to allow the basin at Gloucester to be used for the discharge of river-borne cargoes even though the rest of the canal was very far from completion.
		In 1991, the Gloucestershire Society for Industrial Archaeology, in conjunction with Gloucester Civic Trust, arranged for the tramroad to be commemorated by installing a plaque on the wall beside the gateway.
	www.gloucesterdocks.me.uk /studies/tramroad.htm (585 words)

	Transit Toronto - Content: The Gloucester Series Cars (1954-1990)
		One of the proposals put forward by the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Co. was for a longer car than the TTC had originally conceived.
		Gloucester proposed both aluminum and steel cars, with steel cars being the most economical, although to reduce weight, aluminum was prominently used in the design for the roof and other components.
		Gloucester and its associated suppliers developed a proposal which would see dynamic braking installed on the last six cars of the 34 car order.
	transit.toronto.on.ca /subway/5501.shtml (2998 words)

	Gloucester Transport History
		The Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company produced what was probably its odest vehicle: a one wheeled carette (similar to an open topped sedan chair) for the use of the Crown Agent for the Colonies.
		Two carriages built by The Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company to British Railways specifications were exhibited at a rolling stock exhibition at Battersea Wharf, London, alongside the English Electric "Deltic" diesel and carriages from Cravens, Birmingham RCW and Metro-Cammell.
		On 29 December 1961 The Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company was acquired by Wingets Ltd of Rochester, Kent.
	glostransporthistory.visit-gloucestershire.co.uk /grcw.html (3646 words)

	Gloucester - Free net encyclopedia
		Gloucester (pronounced Template:IPA) is a city and district in south-west England, close to the Welsh border.
		Gloucester Cathedral, in the north of the city near the river, originates in the foundation of an abbey dedicated to Saint Peter in 681.
		West of this, across the canal, are the remains (a gateway and some walls) of Llanthony Priory, a cell of the mother abbey in the vale of Ewyas, Monmouthshire, which in the reign of Edward IV became the secondary establishment.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Gloucester (1230 words)

	Cholsey & Wallingford Railway on the Web
		This 20-ton oil tank was built by the Standard Wagon Company at Heywood Lancashire for Esso and became registered by the LMS as 163417A in October 1948.
		This wagon was believed to have been built in 1895 by the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Ltd although its days working for the MOD have seen many parts exchanged with other wagons.
		Upon the demise of this facility the wagon was acquired by the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway arrived in 1986.
	www.cholsey-wallingford-railway.com /StockList.html (4960 words)

	The Daddy Long Legs
		To extend the existing railway the three miles would entail either a steep climb to take it along the cliff top or a man-made viaduct along the unstable undercliff.
		The company never recovered from the cost of the reconstruction works so a proposed second car was never going to materialise.
		On the 23rd June 1902 an Act was obtained allowing the abandonment of the sea-going line and the construction of a conventional electric railway between the newly opened station of the Electric Railway at Black Rock and Rottingdean along a 2 mile man-made viaduct.
	www.whitstablepier.com /volks/dll.htm (1179 words)

	GRCW Private Owner Coal Wagons: Hornby and other models (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Wagon 15 was one of two let on deferred payment over seven years and in April 1908 six 10 ton second hand wagons were let to Ivo Baldwin on a similar seven year scheme, repair contracts eventually stretching to 1922.
		Wagon 12 though was another 5 plank 8 ton wagon, but this time painted a vey dark grey and, according to Mr Montague, converted from Broad Gauge in January 1910.
		The Clee Hill Granite Company had commenced quarrying in 1867, producing both graded roadstone and stone setts for distribution via the Ludlow and Clee Hill Light Railway and, on the other side of Clee Hill at Catherton, crushed stone that was taken away along the Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway.
	glostransporthistory.softdata.co.uk /grcwPOwagonsHornby.htm (3942 words)

	Gloucester
		Gloucester (pronounced) is a city and district in south-west England, close to the Welsh border.
		Gloucester Leisure Centre opened on the corner of Eastgate Street and Bruton Way in September 1974 and was redeveloped around 2003.
		The Siege of Gloucester in 1643 was an important battle of the English Civil War in which the besieged parliamentarians emerged victorious.
	www.globalguide.org /index.html?id=200031 (1934 words)

	Stock: meaning of: what is stock when the trade includes hiring assets
		The company has two separate trades, one of hiring and one of dealing in the same assets.
		Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Ltd v CIR [1925] 12TC720 was a case in which it was held that there was one business which incorporated both the hiring of the assets and selling the assets, see BIM33030.
		This principle was confirmed in the later case, North Central Wagon and Finance Co. Ltd v Fifield [1953] 34TC59.
	www.hmrc.gov.uk /manuals/bimmanual/BIM33040.htm (355 words)

	Volk's Electric Railway, Daddy Long Legs, The Brighton to Rottingdean Seashore Electric railway, Brighton, East Sussex, ...
		To advance his existing railway would have involved costly works to construct a steep climb to the top of the cliff or a viaduct running along the unstable undercliff, so he hatched a somewhat bonkers alternative plan to create an railway which ran through the sea.
		The Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company were employed to build a sea-going tram for the line, which was to be powered by electricity supplied by trolley-style suspended cables running along the land side of the track.
		The final body blows came early in the new century, when two new concrete groynes* constructed by the Corporation east of the Banjo Groyne were found to be responsible for considerable scouring of the seabed, causing serious damage to the trackbed.
	www.urban75.org /railway/brighton-sea-railway.html (1029 words)

	Specific_Aspects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Railway Detectives: 150 Years of the Railway Inspectorate, IA, 1990, pp146 plus pp30 of illustrations.
		Steamers of British Railways and Associate Companies, T Stephenson and Sons, 1962, pp140.
		Recalls the many railway workshops of the 50s and 60s, illustrated with a superb collection of colour photographs of locomotives either within the works or recently overhauled.
	www.hometown.aol.com /gbsteven/specific_aspects.htm (2222 words)

	Living Gloucester - Railway Industry
		For over one hundred years Gloucester was a railway centre.
		The Carriage and Wagon Works Company built coal trucks, carriages and Maharajahs coaches.
		This section will be expanded to include the history of the railways in Gloucester and its supporting industries.
	www.livinggloucester.co.uk /made/railway_industry (82 words)

	Wagons - Irish Narrow Gauge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Ballymena and Larne Railway - Wagons and Vans
		Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway - Wagons and Vans
		1902.04.18: amalgamated with Metropolitan Amalgamated Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
	www.trainweb.org /i3/wagons.htm (312 words)

	THE BRIGHTON &
		Volk's Electric Railway remains the lasting monument to his genius, but Magnus Volk built another electric railway, more ambitious, though shorter lived than the one that still bears his name.
		The railway was started in 1893 and completed in 1896 as an extension of Volk's Electric Railway, running from the very substantial masonry-built Paston Place Groyne on Brighton seafront, to a jetty at the foot of the high chalk cliffs at the village of Rottingdean 4.43 km (2.75 miles) to the east.
		Only one car was provided for the railway (the term 'tramway' was a misnomer) and this was built by the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company in 1896.
	www.geocities.com /pres_iiree/rottingdean.htm (1196 words)

	Diesels on the Swindon & Cricklade Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In 1980 it came to the Swindon and Cricklade railway on loan, and was subsequently purchased by members.
		was built in 1964, and came to the Swindon and Cricklade Railway from the Slough and Windsor Railway Society, when they moved their standard-gauge preservation activities from Stoke Poges.
		When they are fully restored, the Railway believes these two units will allow it to run the only Class 119 set in preservation.
	www.swindon-cricklade-railway.org /pix2.html (335 words)

	Halton County Radial Railway Photo Gallery
		It was operated by Toronto Civic Railways 55 and then as TTC 2210.
		5098 and 5099 are a married pair of 1954 G1 subway cars made by Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company of England and operated by TTC.
		C-1 is a 1911 SE/DT crane car built by Toronto Railway Company and later by the TTC.
	www.transitstop.net /HCRR.htm (849 words)

	stock trailer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Twenty-eight cars were built in 1935 by Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company: fourteen were driving motor cars and the rest were trailers.
		The London Underground E Stock were steel-bodied cars built for the London Underground in 1914 by the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company.
		The Southern Railway (SR) gave the designation CW to the fleet of AC electric multiple units used on the lines to Coulsdon and Wallington.
	trailer-enclosed.prettymob.com /stock-trailer.html (1592 words)

	Wagons & Vans on the Kent & East Sussex Railway - No 152 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Wagons and Vans on the Kent and East Sussex Railway - No 152
		The accompanying match wagon, or jib runner, for Nº.
		151 was built by the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company in 1927.
	www.kesr.org.uk /wagons/152.htm (46 words)

	Wagon plates for sale at Railway Lines, Gloucester Antique Centre
		Wagon 'star' plate, "LMS NOV 1943", to denote wagon passed for running at higher speeds
		Wagon or coach plate, "S(E)R 1391", oval, Southern Railway
		Wagon 'star' plate, 'LMS MAR 1927', to denote wagon passed to run at higher speeds - probably from a tank wagon
	www.gloucesterrailwayana.com /wagplate.htm (977 words)

	Bath Wagon Works - Prototype
		The Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company was started in 1860 and continued to build wagons until the 1950s.
		The most popular design that they produced was the 7 plank coal wagon.
		A small number of box vans and tank wagons were also made during the above period.
	www.bathwagonworks.co.uk /Prototype.html (79 words)

	Gloucester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There are few tall buildings in Gloucester, the Cathedral being the most obvious.
		Kip's West prospect of Gloucester, c.1725, emphasizes the causeway and bridges traversing the water meadows of the floodplain.
		Thomas Raikes (1741-1813), Banker and merchant in London, Governor of the Bank of England, editor of the first £1 and £2 English pound notes on 26 February 1797.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gloucester (1849 words)

	Mullewa Buffet Car
		AQ 290 was one of six AQ’s constructed by the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, England in 1903/4 for the WAGR.
		The AQ type was partially displaced as First Class sleepers in the 1920’s by the introduction of the AZ sleeping cars.
		In this year (2002) it was decided to use it as part of the Pinjarra Steam Ranger service as a premium class coach on the Wednesday trip from Pinjarra to Dwellingup.
	www.hothamvalleyrailway.com.au /mullewa_buffet_car.htm (349 words)

	Gloucester Conservatives - About Gloucester - - Accessible Version
		During the reign of ‘Bloody’ Mary John Hooper, the Bishop of Gloucester, was martyred by being burned at the stake outside the gates of the Cathedral for being an “unrepentant heretic”.
		The Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company owed part of its success to the supplies of wood brought up the
		With the redevelopment of St Oswalds Park, on-going regeneration at the Docks including a £200 million transformation of the waterfront, renovation of King’s Square and The Oxbode, and new plans unveiled for the redevelopment of the Blackfriars area, Gloucester has a bright future ahead.
	www.gloucesterconservatives.com /accessible/104 (314 words)

	History of welsh narrow gauge model railway
		The company being in financial difficulties saw this as a means of obtaining an influx of funds and gaining access to all the Nantlle quarries rather than just those on the southern extremities.
		The financial problems were influential in a decision not to change the company name thus saving the expense involved in such a course of action.
		Quotes from the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon company of £185 each were considered extortionate by the management and a contract was placed with a local wagon builder for three new coaches.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /TandPLR/History.html (848 words)

	Bulawayo Railway Museum - Coaches in private ownership
		Over the past 10 years the NRZ have sold a number of redundant coaches.
		The rest of the coaches on their train are hired
		from the NRZ Museum and the railway itself.
	www.geoffs-trains.com /Museum/privateownercoaches.html (192 words)

	Stock: meaning of: case law
		Exceptionally it is possible for an trader to carry on two separate businesses where the same type of asset in one business is trading stock and in the other a capital asset.
		The best known case is Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Ltd v CIR [1925] 12TC720.
		In Rees Roturbo Development Syndicate Ltd v Ducker [1928] 13TC366, a company was formed to acquire and exploit patents, and throughout its existence its only assets were patents from which it received royalty income.
	www.hmrc.gov.uk /manuals/bimmanual/bim33030.htm (301 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Built by the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon company in 1914.
		This first and third coach meter gauge coach was used on the Nilgiri Hill Railway.
		The coach is provided with a double pinion on one axle which matches with the rack placed on the centre of the track.
	www.rediff.com /travel/sep/eng1.htm (72 words)

	The One Stop Railwayana Shop - www.railwayana.net
		Oval brass builders plate by the “Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Ltd” in full title and “Builders 1938 Gloucester”.
		The map was prepared by J Roberts a mining engineer in Swansea and folds out to 40” x 29” - in good condition for its age.
		The print in the longer format is in good used condition with drawing pin holes in each corner that would be covered by a frame.
	www.railwayana.net /our/auctionoct04.htm (637 words)

	AV 426 Dining Car
		On the 10th April 1905, the WAGR introduced the first of four new dining cars to service on the busy Perth to Kalgoorlie, Goldfields expresses.
		Built in England by the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, the vehicles were originally known as Restaurant Cars.
		An increase in passenger traffic on the Eastern Goldfields line was brought about by the opening of the Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie, Trans Australian Railway in 1917.
	www.hothamvalleyrailway.com.au /av_426_dining_car.htm (341 words)

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