The Railway Magazine

FROM THE RAILWAY MAGAZINE ARCHIVES

100 YEARS AGO FEBRUARY 1919

BY the retirement of Sir John A.F. Aspinall, the General Manager of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, on January 31, the British railway service loses one of its oldest and most noteworthy officers. Sir John commenced his career as a pupil of the late Mr John Ramsbottom, and afterwards, F.W. Webb,

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