Cambrian Railways was a British railway company that owned 230 miles of track across a large area of mid Wales, formed through the 1864 amalgamation of several smaller railways, later joined by further constituent companies incorporated in 1865 and 1904. The company connected with larger neighbors, reaching northwest England through the London and North Western Railway and linking London and Wales through the Great Western Railway. Cambrian Railways was itself amalgamated into the Great Western Railway on January 1, 1922, under the Railways Act 1921, though its name survives today in the Cambrian Line. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Cambrian Railways owned 230 miles (370 km) of track over a large area of mid Wales.
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After the Cambrian Railways was taken over by the GWR on grouping in 1923, the GWR kept the works open as a regional carriage and wagon works, and locomotive repair shop for the associated locomotive shed.
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