The Origins of Railway Enterprise
Subtitle: The Stockton and Darlington Railway 18211863
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 8, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780521892803
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; Railway transport industries; Trains & railways: general interest; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Economic History; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Yorkshire; Business & Economics / Economic History
First sentence: Every fifty years since it opened in 1825 the Stockton and Darlington Railway has been celebrated publicly as the pioneer of all subsequent railway development - 'the starting point of the vast network of lines which covered a considerable portion of the globe,' and as the harbinger of a technological revolution by virtue of its employment of locomotive haulage.