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RAILWAY traffic — both passenger and freight — grew steadily from the time reasonably reliable data were first collected (in the early 1840s).
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Gourvish, T.R. (1980). The Formative Years: 1830–70 (iii) Operation. In: Railways and the British Economy 1830–1914. Studies in Economic and Social History. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05283-7_4
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