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The railway was originally established to serve the needs of the coal mines of Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire. A pit pony in a coal mine, photograph taken in the early 1900s. There was ...

William Vaughan (1752-1850) was a director of the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation, London, and was much interested in canals and railways and docks. Railways, he said, were common in England ...

On Jan. 29, he provided a local, regional — and in some cases, national — overview of the topic for historical society members with an informative, engaging program, “Early Railroads in the ...