The London

The London, Midland and Scottish are probably the most interesting because it's built out of companies who hate each other.

The Lancashire and Yorkshire and the London Northwestern Railway go through their own mini merger.

I'll say mini.

The LNWR is the biggest private company in the world at that point in 1921.

And effectively, that's the two of them trying to, they know the mergers is coming.

So they're trying to protect their own interest by being the senior partner in the merger.

Unfortunately, at grouping, they then merge with the Midland Railway, and the positions in the board are filled by seniority.

So the railway operating board, who like run the trains and set the

policy that are all done by midland men and the midland running out of derby are a very very proud

quite arrogant in some ways company who does things in a very different way to the London and Northwestern almost to like

spite them the London Northwestern run what they call a big engine policy so they have big steam

engines running big heavy trains all the way up to Scotland Midland runs runs a weird little and often, so they run little trains fast and frequently.

The two, they then try to run the London Northwestern trains with the Midland ideology patched on top and it just doesn't work.

And then almost out of spite, the Midland Operate Division starts scrapping a lot of London North Western equipment, even if it's good, if it's good stuff, just because they want

the Midland engines to be running the trains.

Really?

Yeah.

And they end up in what...

And this is all still in the 20s?

This is in the 20s, yeah.

So this is, this leads to what they call the motive power crisis, where it turns out you actually can't run a big train with a small engine.

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