The 19th century saw the creation and expansion of railroads in the United States, which hauled freight and carried paying ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...