cially important one in the growth of some of the pioneer lines now embraced within the L.M. and S. system. In view of the present reconstruction of the Euston terminus in London, particular interest attaches to the centenary now being celebrated of the opening of the first sections of the London and Birmingham Railway. (Euston to Boxmoor, 24½ miles, July 20, 1837; and Boxmoor to Tring, 7½ miles, October 16, 1837). Associated with this centenary, is that of the first application of the electric telegraph to railway operation, Wheat-stone's apparatus being tried out over a distance of 1½ miles between Euston and Camden Town on July 25, 1837. Another important line now forming part of our largest group system, and opened for traffic a century ago, was the Grand Junction Railway, opened from Birmingham to Warrington, on July 4, 1837. A short line from Paisley to Renfrew, in Scotland, opened in April, 1837, had the feature not then uncommon of being worked by horse-haulage. In Scotland, too, a couple of railway projects received government approval in 1837. There was the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway; and the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway, both of which had their birth at this period. To-day, Glasgow Central Station is a great hive of L.M. and S. activity in Scotland, being the northern terminus of the new fast streamlined services from London, and the centre of a dense suburban traffic area.