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    WILLIAM JAMES 1771-1837 - TRUE ‘FATHER OF THE RAILWAY’?

    Apr 21, 2023 2 minutes

    I must admit that I never took much interest in eariy railway history. I went to the S&D Cavalcade at Shildon in 1975 and I’ve always been fascinated by those paintings of the Stockton & Darlington and the Liverpool & Manchester but that’s it. I’ve never studied early railway history in any great detail

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