Excerpt from Seen From the Railway Platform: Fifty Years' Reminiscences The earliest railway bookstall appears to have been opened at Fenchurch Street Station in the year 1841 this example was followed only slowly until 1850, when the system of railway bookstalls was rapidly and largely extended during the next ten years, for we find Messrs. W. H. Smith and Son becoming lessees Of bookstalls on the London and north-western, south-eastern, Great Eastern, Great Northern, north-eastern, and South Western, as well as other ...
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Excerpt from Seen From the Railway Platform: Fifty Years' Reminiscences The earliest railway bookstall appears to have been opened at Fenchurch Street Station in the year 1841 this example was followed only slowly until 1850, when the system of railway bookstalls was rapidly and largely extended during the next ten years, for we find Messrs. W. H. Smith and Son becoming lessees Of bookstalls on the London and north-western, south-eastern, Great Eastern, Great Northern, north-eastern, and South Western, as well as other railways, until, in 1863, they may have been said to have had depots on all the prin eipel lines. In the same decade, too, Messrs. H. B. Marshall and Sons became contractors for the Great Western and the South Wales Railways, and a Bristol firm named Walkley and Son supplied the Bristol and Exeter Railway. Other one-station agreements were made, here and there, throughout the country, as, for instance, with Mr. Sampson Of York, Mr. Morrison Of Leeds, etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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