The first steam locomotives used on any British railway, worked in industry. The use of new and second hand former main line locomotives, was once a widespread

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Why did the industrial revolution take place in 18th century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolu

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