Even before completion of the world’s first inter-city railway between Liverpool and Manchester in 1830, promoters already had their eye on a much bigger prize.
The 112-mile London & Birmingham Railway, finally authorised in 1833 with share capital of £2,500,000, was the world’s biggest and most ambitious civil engineering scheme.
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