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The Railway King
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

The Railway King

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-11-10
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

George Hudson - the eponymous Railway King - started his career with a stroke of luck, inheriting £27,000 (a fortune in 1827) from a distant relative. He invested successfully in the North Midland Railway, then formed his own Midland Railway, raising £5 million and bribing MPs along the way. But from his glory in 1845 he fell into disgrace, admitting corruption and selling land he did not own. He was eventually imprisoned in York Castle and died a broken man in 1871. His story provides an excellent insight into nineteenth-century politics and industrial progress, full of moral dilemmas and a testimony to the growth of the railways in Britain - a timely subject.

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 770
East Anglian, Or, Notes and Queries on Subjects Connected with the Counties of Suffolk, Cambridge, Essex and Norfolk
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 508
The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 920

The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1804
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The East Anglian, Or, Notes and Queries on Subjects Connected with the Counties of Suffolk, Cambridge, Essex and Norfolk
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 528
Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 702
Magna Britannia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 724

Magna Britannia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1817
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Magna Britannia, a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, by D. and S. Lysons
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 680
A Concise History of the Parish and Vicarage of Halifax, in the County of York
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 604

A Concise History of the Parish and Vicarage of Halifax, in the County of York

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1836
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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