ìAs Charles Dickens wrote in Dombey and Son (1848),
parliamentarians who had laughed at railways in the late
1820s had, within twenty years, woven them thoroughly
into the fabric of their lives.î John Ranlett, 1988,
ìRailwaysî in Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia
(NY: Garland), page 663)
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