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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.
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
A locomotive is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. This list of locomotive builders is ordered by country and includes current and defunct builders. Many of the companies changed names over time; this list attempts to give the most recognisable name, generally the one used for the longest time or during the company's best-known period.
‘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.
8 Απρ 2021 · Unlike most other industries that we study here at the American Business History Center, the long saga of the railroad industry allows us to see the full arc of the industry’s evolution, from small beginnings to full maturity, from thousands of tiny railroads to six giants.
Planning and construction of railroads in the United States progressed rapidly and haphazardly, without direction or supervision from the states that granted charters to construct them. Before 1840 most surveys were made for short passenger lines which proved to be financially unprofitable.
