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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 ...

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 ...

Early this year, the committee identified its top five priorities: liability, on-time performance, collaboration between passenger and freight rail, Amtrak’s role, and technology as it relates to ...

But some permanent structures survived the bankruptcy of the company that ran the railways. Not long ago, I came across an incomplete album of over 50 photographs taken in 1967 that meticulously ...

I will be dividing this feature into two parts, both robustly memory-driven. The first, to show random images of the railway revolution, from its hopeful beginnings in 1883 to its failure less ...