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train to Tenby, Szlumper rebuilt the stations at Tenby and
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The board of the P&TR realised they needed to gain economies of scale, and so appointed the largest M&MR shareholder J.J.Barrow to their board on 31 August 1871. Barrow needed the stable income and docks of the P&TR as his own M&MR was suffering financially through lack of traffic
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Culliford in 1867 and had one son and two daughters. The family lived at Sandmarsh, Aberystwyth. After Szlumper's retirement from the role of surveyor of Cardiganshire, the family moved to Holmesdale Road in
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214:(P&TR), having a virtually common set of investors and board of directors. The P&TR also had close links to the Manchester and Milford Railway (M&MR), which ran over the Szlumper engineered metals of the
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at a by-election in 1892 but did not seek re-election in 1895. Having served as a
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Booker, N. (Winter 1996–1997). "James Cholmeley Russell; An £8,000,000 mystery".
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128:(1858–1934) was also a railway engineer.
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385:Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway
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263:which was investigated by the
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300:High Sheriff of Cardiganshire
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408:Pembroke and Tenby Railway
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551:"Mr. A. W. Szlumper".
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