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George Hudson : the rise and fall of the railway king : a study in Victorian entrepreneurship

The building of the railways in Britain in the 19th-century was the greatest ever industrial undertaking in the world at that time. George Hudson, 'the railway king', established York as the hub of an ever-growing network of lines and this brought him huge wealth and great fame

Print Book, English, 2004
Hambledon and London, London, 2004