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The following list sets out to show all the railway companies set up by Acts of Parliament in the 19th century before 1860. Most of them became constituent parts of the emerging main-line railway companies, often immediately after being built.
This definition includes locomotive engineers, railway construction engineers, operators of railway companies, major railway investors and politicians, of national and international importance for the development of rail transport.
9 Σεπ 2024 · The following list sets out to show all the railway companies set up by Acts of Parliament in the 19th century before 1860. Most of them became constituent parts of the emerging main-line railway companies, often immediately after being built.
‘Early Railway’ covers all railways from the first known, in Ancient Greece, to the beginning of the modern railway around 1825; it is also usually applied to the many later private or industrial lines that continued in the earlier tradition.
An increase in railroad construction between 1860 and 1900 changed the United States, helping make it the industrial nation it is today. As the chief system of transportation of goods and people, railroads were essential to American industry.
These five important financial empire builders of the early genera-tion worked for more than profit and glory; they also had deep desires to create and build. They took inordinate delight in making something where nothing had been before. They outlined by 1873 what became the modern American railroad network, either starting
27 Μαρ 2019 · Learn how and where to locate old railroad histories, employee records and other information for your railroad ancestors.
