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Heaven & Earth / Railways
A RAIL
REVOLUTION
The age of the railways brought
unimaginable changes to Britain, Dan Snow
tells Rob Attar, and helped to build – but
ultimately undermined – the empire
An 1831 illustration showing the Liverpool
and Manchester railway crossing a canal.
Dan Snow argues that rail ended the
dominance of waterborne transport
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