setting up new railway companies were passed, with the proposed routes totalling 9500 mi. About a third of the railways authorised were never built--the companies either collapsed because of poor financial planning, were bought out by larger competitors before they could build their line, or turned out to be fraudulent enterprises to channel investors' money into other businesses.

Causes

The world's first recognizably modern inter-city railway, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway

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