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For many of the inter-war years the Grouped railways, along with the Metropolitan Railway, issued this booklet of 'facts' about the associated railways through the British Railways Press Bureau based in Westminster, London. The 'Big Four' created by mergers in 1923, the London MIdland & Scottish, the London & North Eastern, the Great Western and the Southern Railways were amongst the country's most strategic of industries, in terms of capital, employee numbers, passenger and freight transport and the Bureau enabled them to exercise some political clout. This was particularly the case by 1930 when, for the first time in a century, their near monopoly on transport was being challenged by the growing motor vehicle lobby.

The booklet therefore gives information about capital, equipment, employment and data on passenger, freight and shipping services along with income, expenditure and costs. The striking cover is by Tom Purvis, an artist associated with the publicity work of the LNER, and the booklet has numerous vignettes that could well be 'stock illustrations". The figures quoted in the booklet cover the year 1929; not good years given the trade depression of the period and indeed, the main line railways would spend many of the coming years attempting to better deal with competition including changes to the legal framework governing the operation of railways around issues such as common carriage.

For many of the inter-war years the Grouped railways, along with the Metropolitan Railway, issued this booklet of 'facts' about the associated railways through the British Railways Press Bureau based in Westminster, London. The 'Big Four' created by mergers in 1923, the London MIdland & Scottish, the London & North Eastern, the Great Western and the Southern Railways were amongst the country's most strategic of industries, in terms of capital, employee numbers, passenger and freight transport and the Bureau enabled them to exercise some political clout. This was particularly the case by 1930 when, for the first time in a century, their near monopoly on transport was being challenged by the growing motor vehicle lobby.

The booklet therefore gives information about capital, equipment, employment and statistical data on passenger, freight and shipping services along with income, expenditure and costs. The striking cover is by Tom Purvis, an artist associated with the publicity work of the LNER, and the booklet has numerous vignettes that could well be 'stock illustrations". The figures quoted in the booklet cover the year 1929; not good years given the trade depression of the period and indeed, the main line railways would spend many of the coming years attempting to better deal with competition including changes to the legal framework governing the operation of railways around issues such as common carriage.

These pages look at equipment including the total number of locomotives, freight wagons as well as passenger rolling stock statistics; 7,620,000 seats many of which would only see infrequent use such as at holiday times - a fact that the infamous Dr. Beeching took aim at in the 1960s. The track mileages and signalling statistics are also shown, the latter hinting how safety, the utmost requirement of the railway, required very large numbers of trained personnel to man the very many signal boxes. The illustrations show a fine gantry of semaphore signals, at a time when colour light signalling was starting to be used, allied with a comparatively modern miniature lever signal box unlike the majority of traditional lever frame 'boxes.

For many of the inter-war years the Grouped railways, along with the Metropolitan Railway, issued this booklet of 'facts' about the associated railways through the British Railways Press Bureau based in Westminster, London. The 'Big Four' created by mergers in 1923, the London MIdland & Scottish, the London & North Eastern, the Great Western and the Southern Railways were amongst the country's most strategic of industries, in terms of capital, employee numbers, passenger and freight transport and the Bureau enabled them to exercise some political clout. This was particularly the case by 1930 when, for the first time in a century, their near monopoly on transport was being challenged by the growing motor vehicle lobby.

The booklet therefore gives information about capital, equipment, employment and statistical data on passenger, freight and shipping services along with income, expenditure and costs. The striking cover is by Tom Purvis, an artist associated with the publicity work of the LNER, and the booklet has numerous vignettes that could well be 'stock illustrations". The figures quoted in the booklet cover the year 1929; not good years given the trade depression of the period and indeed, the main line railways would spend many of the coming years attempting to better deal with competition including changes to the legal framework governing the operation of railways around issues such as common carriage.

The pages concerning freight show the tonnages and other figures for what was the backbone of the railways business. The illustrations show a coal train as well as the more 'modern' transhipment of early containers involving road motor haulage to enable local collection and delivery from a railhead.

For many of the inter-war years the Grouped railways, along with the Metropolitan Railway, issued this booklet of 'facts' about the associated railways through the British Railways Press Bureau based in Westminster, London. The 'Big Four' created by mergers in 1923, the London MIdland & Scottish, the London & North Eastern, the Great Western and the Southern Railways were amongst the country's most strategic of industries, in terms of capital, employee numbers, passenger and freight transport and the Bureau enabled them to exercise some political clout. This was particularly the case by 1930 when, for the first time in a century, their near monopoly on transport was being challenged by the growing motor vehicle lobby.

The booklet therefore gives information about capital, equipment, employment and statistical data on passenger, freight and shipping services along with income, expenditure and costs. The striking cover is by Tom Purvis, an artist associated with the publicity work of the LNER, and the booklet has numerous vignettes that could well be 'stock illustrations". The figures quoted in the booklet cover the year 1929; not good years given the trade depression of the period and indeed, the main line railways would spend many of the coming years attempting to better deal with competition including changes to the legal framework governing the operation of railways around issues such as common carriage.

Whilst passenger transport was still of vital importance, for long distance travel as well as suburban services before the challenge of road transport, it was still financially subsidiary to freight. The statistics here are also used to show the safety and, for long distance trains, the relative speed of certain services. As well as a steam locomotive hauled express one of the Metropolitan Railway's electric locomotives, then used on services between the City and Rickmansworth (where outer suburban trains were changed to steam traction and vice-versa) is shown; this was something of a rarity as away from the Underground and the Southern's growing third-rail system, the use of electric traction was still relatively uncommon with only outliers in Lancashire and on Tyneside in service.

A SunRail train set sits at the DeLand station, as the commuter rail hosts their second "DeLand train tour". This station, which dates back to the Atlantic Coast Line, already served by Amtrak, will begin SunRail commuter operations on August 12th, 2024. This is the 17th SunRail station to open since the commuter rail began operations in 2014.

The 1930s saw many European countries celebrate the Centenaries of railways, following on from the British events in 1925 for the Stockton & Darlington and 1930 for the Liverpool & Manchester Railways. Germany's event was held at Nuremberg, where a national transport museum was already in existence, and included exhibition halls and grounds that told the story of the development of the nation's railways and railway system.

By 1935 the shadow of the National Socialist dictatorship already fell on such events and the leaflet also discusses the highlights of Nuremberg, "the jewel case of the Reich", including the now infamous Party Congresses and Grounds. The artwork, showing the power of the streamlined new over the original trains, is by Jupp Wiertz (1881 - 1939), a prolific poster artist and designer who undertook amny commissions for transport and tourism related publicity. The artwork on this English language leaflet was also used as the event's main poster.

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