Great Western Docks 1939 : Britain's western gateways : H. N. Appleby Ltd. : by arrangement with the Great Western Railway : 1939

            Following the Grouping of the majority of Britain's railways in 1923, the "Big Four" all found themselves the owners and operators of most major ports, docks and harbours - along with, in the case of three of them, being significant ferry operators in their own right. The 'odd one out' with regards to the latter was the Great Western Railway.

However, as did the other railway concerns, the GWR did allow to be published a very fine annual directory of their port facilities and that for 1939 was published on their behalf by H. N. Appleby who also edited the LNER's Port volumes. The 1939 edition is a massive book running to over three hundred pages that describe the docks, the handling facilities, infrastructure and the industries of the various hinterlands. They range from major docks, such as Cardiff, where  the GWR's Chief Docks Manager's Department was based, to much smaller affairs such as Brentford Dock in west London. As well as text, and adverts for associated industries and service suppliers, the volume has many highly detailed plans of the ports, the docks and their facilities. One suspects the 1939 edition was very useful for the Luftwaffe over the coming years of war.

This is the cover of the book with a suitably limpid illustration of the Cardiff headquarters and the GWR symbol by an unattributed artist or designer.

Taken on: March 22, 2025

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