Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).

* London, Midland and Scottish Railway

TOCs may use what they like: examples include Futura ( Stagecoach Group ), Helvetica ( FirstGroup and National Express ), Frutiger ( Arriva Trains Wales ), Bliss ( CrossCountry, an Arriva franchise but not branded as such ), and a modified version of Precious by London Midland.

These include the London Underground, Docklands Light Railway, Blackpool Tramway, London Tramlink, Glasgow Subway, Tyne and Wear Metro, Manchester Metrolink, Sheffield Supertram, Midland Metro and Nottingham Express Transit.

By 1798, there were eight districts: Eastern, Home, Johnstown, London, Midland, Newcastle, Niagara, and Western.

By 1826, there were eleven districts: Bathurst, Eastern, Gore, Home, Johnstown, London, Midland, Newcastle, Niagara, Ottawa, and Western.

By 1838, there were twenty districts: Bathurst, Brock, Colbourne, Dalhousie, Eastern, Gore, Home, Huron, Johnstown, London, Midland, Newcastle, Niagara, Ottawa, Prince Edward, Simcoe, Talbot, Victoria, Wellington, and Western.

London Midland Magazine – February 1963 – article on the Pneumatic Dispatch Railway in London

* May 27 – Sir William Stanier, English steam locomotive engineer ( London, Midland and Scottish Railway ) ( d. 1965 )

The main Network Rail station operated by London Midland is Kidderminster, from where trains run to Birmingham, Worcester and London.

On the other hand, however, there started rising at the same time cries in defence of Cockney as, for example the following one: " The London dialect is really, especially on the South side of the Thames, a perfectly legitimate and responsible child of the old kentish tongue the dialect of London North of the Thames has been shown to be one of the many varieties of the Midland or Mercian dialect, flavoured by the East Anglian variety of the same speech ".

Chancery Standard was largely based on the London and East Midland dialects, for those areas were the political and demographic centres of gravity.

The Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway connected Stratford with the main line of the London and North Western Railway at Blisworth until passenger trains were withdrawn in 1952.

Much of the film version was shot at Carnforth railway station in Lancashire, then a junction on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

The Art Deco Midland Hotel was built in 1932-33 by the London Midland & Scottish Railway to the design of Oliver Hill and included works by Gill, Marion Dorn and Eric Ravilious.

* Conceptions of the Afterlife in Early Civilizations: Universalism, Constructivism and Near-Death Experience by Gregory Shushan, New York & London, Continuum, 2009.

* Aga Khan III, " Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time ", London: Cassel & Company, 1954 ; published same year in the United States by Simon & Schuster.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1963.

& C. Black, London, OCLC 4365382, and subsequent editions, 2003 edition published by Kessinger, Whitefish, Montana, ISBN 0-7661-2826-1

Theseus and the Minotaur, V & A, London

The work which first established his fame at Rome was Theseus Vanquishing the Minotaur, now in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, in London.

The two had joined forces as Bamford & Martin the previous year to sell cars made by Singer from premises in Callow Street, London where they also serviced GWK and Calthorpe vehicles.

Allen & Co., London, OCLC 4219393, limited view at Google Books

London: Thames & Hudson.

London: Chatto & Windus

London: Nicholson & Watson 1952.

( 2004 ) Layers of Time: A History of Ethiopia, London: Hurst & Co., ISBN 1-85065-522-7

( 1986 ) Empress Taytu and Menelik II: Ethiopia 1883-1910, London: Ravens Educational & Development Services, ISBN 0-947895-01-9

London, Hodder & Stoughton.

London: Thames & Hudson, 2004.

* Curry Club Indian Restaurant Cookbook, Piatkus, London — ISBN 0-86188-378-0 & ISBN 0-86188-488-4 ( 1984 to 2009 )

* Pat Chapman India: Food & Cooking, New Holland, London — ISBN 978-1-84537-619-2 ( 2007 )

Jimmy Hill once referred to the Riverside being " a bit like the London Palladium " as Blocks V & W ( the middle section ) are often filled with the rich and famous ( including often Al-Fayed ).

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1870.

London: Published for the Author by Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1870.

London: Burns & Oates, 1865.

London: George Bell & Sons, 1886.

London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.

Fleming had been a private in the London Scottish Regiment of the Volunteer Force since 1900, and had been a member of the rifle club at the medical school.

* 1305 – William Wallace, who led the Scottish resistance against England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London where he is put on trial and executed.

The new British Army incorporated existing English and Scottish regiments, and was controlled from London.

One role of the Swedish central bank was lending to the government, which was likewise true of the Bank of England, created in 1694 by Scottish businessman William Paterson in the City of London at the request of the English government to help pay for a war.

The nucleus was also described by Franz Bauer in 1804 and in more detail in 1831 by Scottish botanist Robert Brown in a talk at the Linnean Society of London.

" She had bought him a steam yacht, houses in London and in the Leicestershire hunting country, and a Scottish grouse moor.

Satie was the son of Alfred Satie and his wife Jane Leslie ( née Anton ), who was born in London to Scottish parents.

There are seats for each of the 79 councillors, situated in a Hemicycle, all facing the Lord Provost ( the Scottish equivalent of the lord mayor found in London and other cities ), his Depute, and the Chief Executive, who are seated behind the mace.

It also replaced the Scottish systems of currency, taxation and laws regulating trade with laws made in London.

For example, railways opened the London market to Scottish beef and milk.

Overall administration was in the hands of the Scotch ( later Scottish ) Education Department in London.

* Davidson, Neil, Discovering the Scottish Revolution, 1692-1746, Pluto Press, London, England ( 2003 ).

* 1999 – The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh.

In 1400, Lord Grey informed Glyndŵr too late of a royal command to levy feudal troops for Scottish border service, thus being able to call the Welshman a traitor in London court circles.

Such systems, or variations of them, are used in parts of the United Kingdom ( the Greater London Authority, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly ), Germany, Lesotho, Mexico, Bolivia and New Zealand.

It was invented by the Scottish engineer William Murdoch in the 19th century and was later developed by the London Pneumatic Despatch Company.

Using a Nipkow disk, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird succeeded in demonstrating the transmission of moving silhouette images in London in 1925, and of moving, monochromatic images in 1926.

* The Additional Member System is used for elections to the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales ( Welsh Assembly ) and London Assembly.