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2 June 28, 2018
Was this the craziest railway ever built?
There have been many railway follies built across the world in the last two centuries, heroic...

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RT @gittins29 @GarethDennis @christianwolmar @Railpassion1 In 1840 there were 500,000 navvies building the railways. It paid better than farm work so people flocked to it. They were not paid by the slave trade which was banned 33 years before. Capital is accumulated savings and lots of people had it and invested in the railway mania.
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