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Railway Progress in 1839 IN its monthly notes on Railway Progress the Civil Engineer and Architects’ Journal of July 1839 referred to some twenty British lines. It recorded the opening of the Eastern Counties Railway from Shoreditch to Romford on which the rails had been laid to a five-foot gauge “which without greatly increasing the weight of the engines, gives them great mechanical advantages”, and the opening of the London and Croydon Railway. Much work was being done on the Birmingham and Derby Railway; an experimental trip had been made on the Manchester and Leeds Railway on which it was calculated “that the expence of travelling in the third-class carriages, which are open and unprovided with seats, will not exceed one penny per mile”; and a portion of the York and North Midland Railway had been opened. By means of this and other lines it was hoped “a direct communication will be opened next year from Newcastle to London”. Two further sections of 12 and 8 miles respectively had been opened on the London and Southampton Railway “leaving only eighteen miles, viz., the distance from Winchester to Basingstoke, to complete the whole undertaking”.
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Science News a Century Ago. Nature 144, 169 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144169a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144169a0