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Rain, Steam & Speed

Rain, Steam & Speed
The 'Great Western Railway' painted before 1844 by Turner


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 Dinesh
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The railway represented, in the phrase of the period, ‘the annihilation of time and space’. The landscape itself seems to have changed. It had long since lost its natural woodland and now its heads, wastes and village commons were in this period ‘enclosed within small patches and areas,’ partly to make way for the new railway lines. For foreign travellers the English countryside presented a garden-like system of hedges and fences. . . . .The trains would soon run at a speed whereby a blackened city slum might flash past after a colliery and not be distinguished from it. ~ Page 78

Between the end of 1844 and the beginning of 1849 more than 3,000 miles of track had been laid, as opposed to 172 miles of new roads and streets; in the period the number of train journeys rose from 33 million to 60 million. It is not at all wonderful that the silent aspect of this period were universally attributed to ‘SPEED’. The canals were finished, the turnpike was an anachronism and the roads were neglected. . . . .79
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 Dinesh
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The Railway Regulation Act of 1844, passed long after Huskisson’s accident had been forgotten, was designed to consolidate the minimum standard for what had already become a means of mass transport. . . . In 1844, 800 miles of route was authorized by parliament; in the following year almost 3,000 miles were approved. ‘The press supported the mania, as one writer in 1851 put it, ‘the government sanctioned it: the people paid for it. Railways were at once a fashion, and a frenzy. England was mapped out for the iron roads.’ within fifty years sea was linked to sea, river to river as well as ports, towns, cities, markets and mined. . . . They were becoming part of the antiquarian tradition which has always been popular among the English. They were picturesque and made a pretty photograph ~ Page 85

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