Abstract
The great Victorian economist, Alfred Marshall, observed, ‘the dominant fact … is the development not of manufacturing but of the transport industries.’ Like any other statement we should not accept this at face value but inquire by what means we can test such a hypothesis.
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Further reading
Michael Robbins, The Railway Age (1961);
J. R. Kellett, The Impact of Railways on Victorian Cities (1967);
P. O’Brien, The New Economic History of the Railways (1977);
G. Alderman, The Railway Interest (1973).
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© 1980 Neil Tonge and Michael Quincey
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Tonge, N., Quincey, M. (1980). Railways — A New Age?. In: British Social and Economic History 1800–1900. Documents and Debates. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04991-2_9
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