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This fourth article covers other railway companies which had steam railmotors in the early 20th century. ...

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/06/18/ste...companies/

This fifth article covers the various articulated railcars/railmotors in use in the early 20th century. ....

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/06/20/ste...ailmotors/

The new companies which came into existence with the grouping in 1923 addressed once again the best way to serve lightly populated rural communities. The options available to them centred on various forms of light railcars. Two forms of propulsion were available, the internal combustion engine and the steam engine. Electricity, in many cases required too large an investment for the likely traffic on the intermediate routes in rural areas.

Steam railcars/railmotors surprisingly given early experiences, had a second opportunity to serve in the era of the big four!

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/06/26/ste...-grouping/

This article follows on from five other articles which covered the Wellington to Severn Junction Railway in the Telford area and this line from Buildwas to Presthope.

We begin this next article at Presthope Railway Station and travel towards Craven Arms, as far as the village of Longville in the Dale. …….

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/06/27/the...aven-arms/

Railway World magazine in early 1965 carried a two part article about Horwich Locomotive Works.

I always take note of articles about the Works when I find them, as my paternal grandfather worked there in the early years of the 20th century, before the great depression when eventually he moved his family to Stapleford in the Derby/Nottingham area and where he took a job at the Loco Works in Derby as a blacksmith.

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/07/15/hor...rks-again/

The Whitland & Cardigan Railway was a 27.5 miles (44.3 km) long branch line, "built in two stages, at first as the Whitland and Taf Vale Railway from the South Wales Main Line at Whitland to the quarries at Glogue. It opened in 1873, at first only for goods and minerals and later for passengers. The line to Cardigan opened in 1886; reflected in the company name change.

This is a first article about the line and follows the first length of the line out from Cardigan.

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/07/15/rai...o-boncath/

In July 1909, the Railway Magazine noted that the Caledonian Railway had inaugurated a motor car service on its rails. Just a short journey was involved crossing the Connel Ferry Bridge and running from Connel Ferry to either North Connel or Benderloch.

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/07/16/the...motor-car/

The Railway and Travel Monthly, July 1918 – A Snapshot including Advertising.

In the midst of a small batch of older railway magazines, was a partial copy of the July 1918 copy of “The Railway and Travel Monthly.”

The price for the magazine: 1 shilling

Edited by: G.A. Sekon.

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/07/18/the...vertising/

I find these old magazines quite interesting particularly for the contemporary view they provide on what, for us, is railway history.

This is the second in a short series of articles about the line.

My interest in this branch line stems from reading an article by M.R. Connop Price; Before the Railways: The Early Steamers of Cardiganshire; in the Railway & Canal Historical Society Journal in July 2022. And from staying North of Cardigan in 2023 and walking part of the route of the old line.

We restart our journey from Cardigan to Whitland at Boncath Railway Station.

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/07/25/rai...anglydwen/

This is an Addendum to this series of articles resulting from being able to purchase Kidner's monograph about railcars, tramcars and auto-coaches/trains published in 1947. ...

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/06/30/ste...-addendum/