Industrial Revolution · TURNING POINT ·
Swindon Works (1843)
1843 — Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Great Western Railway builds its locomotive works at a hilltop market town; by 1900 it employs over 10,000. Railway towns like Swindon and Crewe are made by the network itself.
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- Early railways and Railway Mania (chapter 4 of Industrial Revolution)
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- The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914
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