Tag: TRAINS

EP028 BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME? RAILWAY MANIA AND SOCIAL CHANGES

EP028 BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME? RAILWAY MANIA AND SOCIAL CHANGES is here to count the cost of progress. As railways make men staggeringly rich, people start to fly too close to the sun and get their wings singed. Or fall prey to predators, like George Hudson, the Railway King. This episode covers

  • Reviews, thank you’s and some podcast recommendations

  • Railways; bringing a potential bonanza.

  • The profits of the first line, and tragedy.

  • The cost of doing business; political bribery.

  • A growing mania.

  • Boom time turns bust.

  • George Hudson – rise and fall of the first Great Railway Baron.

  • The end of the mania, and a new normal.

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EP026 The railway is coming!

The railway is here. What a change Britain was about to see! A herald of a new age, and new way of life. Something new in human history. This episode covers;

  • The English landscape and the train 1820-1840.

  • Early trains & popular .

  • Economic impacts.

  • Canal and coach monopolies.

  • Slum clearance & Agar Town.

  • A riot in Basingstoke.

  • Triumph of the railways.

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