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And does anyone know where I could find picture or diagrams of the track layout at the time?
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Liverpool To Manchester Railway 1830
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Posted 22 April 2007 - 04:54 PM
Does anyone know any good sites with info on the Liverpool to Manchester railway 1830? (Partically with easy to read stuff as I'm fed up with scrolling through pages and pages of info and not understanding a word of it)
And does anyone know where I could find picture or diagrams of the track layout at the time?
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And does anyone know where I could find picture or diagrams of the track layout at the time?
Cheers
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Posted 22 April 2007 - 06:44 PM
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Posted 29 April 2007 - 06:57 PM
Thank you for the site they really helped
I was also wondering about the trails in 1829. I dont know what trails they were or anything...Ive just written in my planner that one of the chapters in my project has to be about the trails of 1829...Any help?
I was also wondering about the trails in 1829. I dont know what trails they were or anything...Ive just written in my planner that one of the chapters in my project has to be about the trails of 1829...Any help?
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Posted 29 April 2007 - 10:34 PM
They were 'trials' -spell it right: a 'trial' is a kind of test/competition; a 'trail' is a pathway or route.
The trials you are thinking of were the Rainhill Trials.
Also good original accounts on this site.
For more, just put 'Rainhill Trials' into google.
The trials you are thinking of were the Rainhill Trials.
Also good original accounts on this site.
For more, just put 'Rainhill Trials' into google.
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Posted 11 May 2007 - 06:38 PM
Hey
Sorry to ask for help yet again but Im trying to find out some info on the share issues on the Liverpool to Manchester Railway 1830. It must have been a pretty maijor thing otherwise I wouldnt have to do a chapter about it in my project. But I cant find any sites explaining exactly what was going on with the shares. I dont know if just not looking in the right places for websites or if there really arn't any but I cant seem to find any! Anyway yeah so any good sites would be apprecitated...this project has to be in on monday!
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Sorry to ask for help yet again but Im trying to find out some info on the share issues on the Liverpool to Manchester Railway 1830. It must have been a pretty maijor thing otherwise I wouldnt have to do a chapter about it in my project. But I cant find any sites explaining exactly what was going on with the shares. I dont know if just not looking in the right places for websites or if there really arn't any but I cant seem to find any! Anyway yeah so any good sites would be apprecitated...this project has to be in on monday!
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Posted 11 May 2007 - 10:30 PM
For the simple facts about the share issues, this is the site to read - http://www.booneshar...sterrailway.htm
Too late for your homework, but the article you need to read is 'The Finances of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway' by Harold Pollins in The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 5, No. 1 (1952), pp. 90-97.
If you can get to your local good/university library tomorrow they may be have it.
In the meantime, you can read the first page here.
The key point you need to make in your homework is that, before the railways, undertakings like canals and turnpikes had been financed by the companies selling shares to small groups of local rich people.
But the railways were so HUGE an uertaking -and needed so much money to build them - that this method of financing them was really inadequate to the task.
SO the railways had to develop a NEW way of raising money, and their promoters developed the idea of wide-spread, national share issues, sold all over the country ... and this led to local stock exchanges and the Stock Market which you hear about in the financial news today.
The Liverpool to Manchester Railway was the first to try this, and it 'blazed the trail' so to speak, and the article at the top of this post is really not just the story of how the Liverpool to Manchestr Railway was financed,ut also th story of how th Stock Market and the modern idea of 'shares' was invented.
Too late for your homework, but the article you need to read is 'The Finances of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway' by Harold Pollins in The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 5, No. 1 (1952), pp. 90-97.
If you can get to your local good/university library tomorrow they may be have it.
In the meantime, you can read the first page here.
The key point you need to make in your homework is that, before the railways, undertakings like canals and turnpikes had been financed by the companies selling shares to small groups of local rich people.
But the railways were so HUGE an uertaking -and needed so much money to build them - that this method of financing them was really inadequate to the task.
SO the railways had to develop a NEW way of raising money, and their promoters developed the idea of wide-spread, national share issues, sold all over the country ... and this led to local stock exchanges and the Stock Market which you hear about in the financial news today.
The Liverpool to Manchester Railway was the first to try this, and it 'blazed the trail' so to speak, and the article at the top of this post is really not just the story of how the Liverpool to Manchestr Railway was financed,ut also th story of how th Stock Market and the modern idea of 'shares' was invented.
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