English Railway History

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This paper examines the railways that crossed the English landscape in the nineteenth century. Specifically, the paper reviews the development of the railroad in that nation during the early part of the nineteenth century and also examines the involvement of private business interests in seeing to it that such transportation technology succeeded. Every bit as importantly the paper reviews the vital contribution that the nineteenth century railroad made to Great Britain's industrial pre eminence.

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"The nineteenth century in Great Britain (for that matter, the late seventeenth century, as well) saw startling developments in infrastructure. As mechanization grew more and more ubiquitous and advanced and as the need for better roads, canals and railways became more pressing in an age of mass commoditization and mass production, it was inevitable that the transportation arteries of the island would advance in lock-step with what was taking place elsewhere. The following paper will briefly examine England's nineteenth century railroads by examining its development and its vital importance to the building of an industrial power of the first rank. As should become apparent, railroads were (and remain) a feature of the English landscape which speaks to a period in Great Britain's history when it truly was the Workshop of the World."

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