[posted] Posted[#54179, Anonymous)

Remarks on the proposed Railway between Birmingham and London, Anonymous 54179 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/5/4/1/7/54179 ] [Files: 54179.txt; 54179-h.htm] The writer of this 1831 pamphlet could see that a railway between England's two major cities would probably pay, at a time when others were claiming the cost was beyond all bounds. The railway was built and I travel on it weekly. As I write the UK government is looking at building a second London and Birmingham railway, and lots of people are claiming the cost will be beyond all bounds ... All the best, David, Overcast England