Regency Rails - Georgian, Williamine & Early Victorian Railways
Compound of this parish suggested that we had a dedicated topic for Georgian Railways. For my part, I have no issue with the discussion continuing in the School Project - Victorian Railways topic, as some of it doubtless will, but it may be more orderly and accessible if the period had its own home, so here we are.
So far, in the original topic, we have discussed matters with the Stockton and Darlington as a starting point, because that is what the school project chiefly concerns, and becau
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway now looks almost too modern for this topic, which has been straying well into Jacobean railways! Apologies for dragging us back on topic with something genuinely Williamine. The Ackermann prints of Liverpool and Manchester trains are very well-known but I've not been able to find any clear account of their publication history - they seem to have gone through several redrawings in the 1830s plus there are various later reprints to muddy the waters. This is the
