One Hundred Years of Railways ; C F Dendy Marshall : London MIdland & Scottish Railway : 1930 : artwork by P. Irwin Brown
As part of the extensive celebrations of the centenary of the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, on 15 September 1830, the London Midland & Scottish Railway as successor to that company, issued a booklet written by C F Dendy Marshall. He drew on materials that he had collected as part of his "Centenary of the Liverpool & Manchester" and this slim volume also looks at the other constituents of the LMSR, such as the LNWR and MR, and closes with a description of the LMS at it was in the centenary year.
The cover, slightly chipped here, uses artwork by
P. Irwin Brown and this was also used as the basis for a poster issued concurrently. It is suitably of its day and quite clever - the chimney of Rocket, the locomotive now most associated with the opening, acting to delineate part of the cab arrangement of a modern locomotive.
One Hundred Years of Railways ; C F Dendy Marshall : London MIdland & Scottish Railway : 1930 : artwork by P. Irwin Brown
As part of the extensive celebrations of the centenary of the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, on 15 September 1830, the London Midland & Scottish Railway as successor to that company, issued a booklet written by C F Dendy Marshall. He drew on materials that he had collected as part of his "Centenary of the Liverpool & Manchester" and this slim volume also looks at the other constituents of the LMSR, such as the LNWR and MR, and closes with a description of the LMS at it was in the centenary year.
The cover, slightly chipped here, uses artwork by
P. Irwin Brown and this was also used as the basis for a poster issued concurrently. It is suitably of its day and quite clever - the chimney of Rocket, the locomotive now most associated with the opening, acting to delineate part of the cab arrangement of a modern locomotive.