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 Joint railway Information
A joint railway is a railway operating under the control of more than one railway company: those companies very often supplying the traction over the railway.
Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway: London and South Western Railway (LSWR) and Midland Railway 101 miles (162km)
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The seven constituent companies absorbed in 1923 were the London and North Western, the Midland, the North Staffordshire, and the Furness Railways in England, and the Caledonian, Glasgow and South Western, and Highland Railways in Scotland.
But the Scottish companies objected on the ground that the small population of the country and the relative lack of industrial development would impose a financial handicap on such a group, and that they therefore preferred to be associated with the English companies.
Before 1923 the station was managed by the Carlisle Citadel Station Joint Committee, which had the status of a joint railway company, and it was jointly owned by the Caledonian and the London and North Western.
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List of railway companies involved in the 1923 grouping - Under the Railways Act 1921 the majority of the railway companies in Great Britain (and few in Northern Ireland) were grouped into four main companies, often termed the Big Four: the grouping took effect from 1 January 1923.
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Instead, from January 1 1923 the remaining companies were grouped into the "big four", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies.
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Under the Railways Act 1921 the majority of the railway companies in Great Britain (and few in Northern Ireland) were grouped into four main companies, often termed the Big Four: the grouping took effect from 1 January 1923.
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The British railway system had been built up by more than 100 railway companies, large and small, and often, particularly locally, in competition with each other.
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 Railways Act 1921 Information
The parallel railways of the East Midlands, and the "war" between the South Eastern Railway and the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway at Hastings were examples of such local competition.
See also a list of railway companies involved in the 1923 grouping.
Examples include the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway (MandGN) between the LMS and the LNER in eastern England, the largest of the joint railways; and the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (SandDJ) between the LMS and the SR in south-western England, perhaps the most famous of the joint railways.
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The company involved was led by Lieutenant FJ Jenkins, who had the task of leading the 23rd from a position known as Florina Trench to the jumping?off positions Gottlieb and Save Trenches.
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