Origins of Railway Enterprise. The Stockton & Darlington Railway, 1821-1863
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- Author(s) Kirby, Maurice W
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1993
- Pages 223pp; illus
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
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- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly account of a very early railway business. Seeks to establish its economic significance in British industrialisation after 1830 through examination of its contribution to the economic growth of south Durham and north west Yorkshire, a region which became the most important iron producing centre in the world 'partly as a result of the Stockton & Darlington Railway's role as a "fuel artery"'. Its sections include: 'Stockton & Darlington Railway in economic and business history'; 'Prelude to railways'; 'Foundation of the Stockton & Darlington Railway Co, 1818-1825'; 'Hopes fulfilled, 1825-33'; 'Growth and competition, 1834-1847'; 'Crisis, 1847-1850'; 'Mature company, 1850-1863'