Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Cornish Riviera Limited

From Graces Guide
Aug 1935. Great Western Railway GWR Centenary.

A Great Western Railway express train with limited stops between London (Paddington) and some of the resorts in Cornwall.

1904 The Cornish Riviera Express was instituted on July 1st 1904 and it ran non-stop to Plymouth (North-road), covering the then 246 miles in 267 minutes.[1]

1924 Read ' A Run with the Cornish Riviera Limited - a detailed account in 1924 of runs between London-Penzance and Penzance-London in The Engineer 1924/10/31.

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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1924/12/19