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Origins[edit]

This "railway" is surely the Sheffield and Midland Railway Companies' Committee renamed, which happened round about the time that the lines in South Yorks were built? --Redrose64 (talk) 12:28, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I cannot offer any evidence to support that other than I seem to remember some years ago reading in a Mac Hawkins "Then and Now" book on the Great Central that is was a merger and a re-naming of several TOC's LongRobin79(talk) 20:49, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]