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A RECORD OF THE ENTERPRISE AND ACHIEVEMENTS
OF THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY COMPANY DURING
THE GREAT WAR
By G. R. S. DARROCH
(CROIX DE GUERRE)
ASSISTANT TO THE CHIEF MECHANICAL ENGINEER L. & N.W.R.
WITH A PREFACE BY
L. J. MAXSE
With Illustrations
"The Railway Executive Committee have
been too modest, the public do not know
what they achieved."—Engineering.
LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
1920
All rights reserved
Page 120, footnote, for said the Tsar, read said of the Tsar.
" 149, line 22, for Walschaerte valve appertaining, read Walschaerte valve gear appertaining.
" 162, line 23, for mileage of permanent available read mileage of permanent way available.
"Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent," is a golden and an olden precept, one moreover that may, or may not, impel the aspiring rhetorician to beware the pitfalls which ever and anon threaten to ensnare his footsteps; and in compiling this little work the present Author has not been unmindful of at least two dilemmas with which he has felt himself to be faced; one, the danger of toying with that "little knowledge" which in the course of his professional duties h