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What it says on the tin - what if the 1923 grouping of Britain's railways had looked like this: http://spellerweb.net/rhindex/UKRH/AlternativeGrouping/AltGroup.html

John Speller, the article's author, postulates a grouping into five (instead of four) companies. He emphasizes grouping competing smaller railways in different larger ones. This would theoretically have saved lines like the Glasgow & South Western Railway and Great Central Railway.
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