George Hudson : the rise and fall of the railway king / A. J. Arnold and S. McCartney
by Arnold, A. J. (Tony)
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- ISBN 13
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London : Hambledon and London, 2004. First Edition. Hardback. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Section of original dust wrapper mounted facing title page. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance: From the library of Eric George Hatfield Moody with his bookplate to front pastedown. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 317 pages; xii, 317p. : ill., ports. ; 24cm. Subjects: Hudson, George 1800-1871. Capitalists and financiers - Great Britain - Biography. Railroads - England - Design and construction - Costs. Railroads - England - Biography. The building of the railways in Britain in the nineteenth century was the greatest ever industrial undertaking in the world to that time. Financed by private enterprise rather than the state, the schemes to build new lines were characterised both by their ambition and by their need for huge amounts of capital. The most ambitious of all of the individual entrepreneurs, and for long the most successful, was George Hudson, the 'Railway King', whose establishment of York as the hub of an ever-growing network of lines brought him huge wealth and great fame.
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- Title
- George Hudson : the rise and fall of the railway king / A. J. Arnold and S. McCartney
- Author
- Arnold, A. J. (Tony)
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1852854014
- ISBN 13
- 9781852854010
- Publisher
- London : Hambledon and London
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2004
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