Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,694 pages of information and 247,077 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.
William Henry Austen (8 May 1878-26 February 1956) was a British railway engineer
1931 Took over the running of Holman Fred Stephens' light railways on the latter's death in 1931
1948 Austen retired, by which time the lines had either closed due to competition from motor buses and lorries, or became part of British Railways
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