Brecon & Merthyr Railway  (1st July 1922)
Vale of Rheidol Railway  ( 1st Jan 1922 )  
Burry Port & Gwendraeth Valley Railway  ( 1st July 1922 )
Weston, Clevedon & Portishead Railway  ( 1940 )

Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway  ( 1st Jan 1922 )  #
Swansea Harbour Trust ( 1923 )

Neath & Brecon Railway  ( 1st Jan 1922 )    

Gwendraeth Valleys Railway ( 1923 )

Midland & South Western Junction Railway ( 1923 )

Powlesland & Mason, Swansea Docks ( 1 Jan 1924)

Corris Railway ( 4 August 1930 )

Port Talbot Railway & Docks Co. *

Rhondda & Swansea Bay Railways  *

South Wales Mineral Railway  *

#  =  Previously absorbed by Cambrian Railways
*  =  Absorbed in 1907, but worked independently until 1922


   LONDON, MIDLAND and SCOTTISHRAILWAY

Caledonian Railway

Furness Railway

Glasgow and South Western Railway

Highland Railway

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway  #

London and North Western Railway

London, Tilbury and  Southend Railway  %

Maryport and Carlisle Railway

Midland Railway

Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway  *

Cleator and Workington Junction Railway
Glasgow and Paisley Joint LIne

Knott End Railway

Leek and Manifold Light Railway  +

Stratford-on-Avon and Midland Junction Railway

North Staffordshire Railway

Wirral Railway

North London Railway  ¬¬

#     Renamed London and North Western Railway (Division B) in Jan 1922 - L & N W R then became Division A
%   Absorbed by Midland Railway in 1912

*    Worked jointly with the Southern Railway

+    Worked by North Staffordshire Railway

¬¬  Worked by L N W R from December 1908

                                                           

   LONDON and NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY

Great Northern Railway ( incl. the East and West Yorkshire Union Railways )

North Eastern Railway

Great Eastern Railway (incl. Colne Valley and Halstead Railway 1st July 1923,  Mid Suffolk Light Railway 1st July 1924.

Great Central Railway

Hull and Barnsley Railway  #

North British Railway

Great North of Scotland Railway
Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway  %
Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway  *
Metropolitan Railway - 18 stock Locomotives transferred November 1937

#    Taken over by North Eastern Railway on 1st April 1922

%   Renamed Great Central Railway in 1897

*     Worked jointly with Landon Midland and Scottish Railway until 1st October 1936

                                                       

                                                                        SOUTHERN RAILWAY

London and South Western Railway ( incl. Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junct. Railway )

London, Brighton and South Coast Railway

South Eastern and Chatham Railway   #

Lynton and Barnstaple Railway  ( 1st July 1923 )

Freshwater, Yarmouth & Newport Railway
Isle of Wight Railway

#   Previously to 1890, two Companies comprised the S.E. & C.R. were the South Eastern Railway and the London Chatham and Dover Railway.  They formed a joint working committee in that year under the new title

                                             

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