Industrial Revolution · TURNING POINT ·
George Hudson and Railway Mania (1845–47)
On the Industrial Revolution map as “York — the Railway King”
1845–1847 — George Hudson, linen draper turned railway financier, controls over a thousand miles of line from York. The railway mania he rides collapses in 1847, and his fraudulent dividends are exposed in 1849.
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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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