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London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company.
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Following the First World War, many of Britain's numerous railway companies faced bankruptcy. Consequently, during the 1923 "grouping", four large companies were formed of which the London, Midland & Scottish Railway Co. was the largest. The LMS was an amalgamation of the London & North Western Railway (including the Lancashire & Yorkshire, with which it had already made a preliminary amalgamation) and Midland Railways in England; the Caledonian, Glasgow & South Western, and Highland railways in Scotland; and two further companies in Ireland. The LMS was nationalised to become part of British Rail in 1948.
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