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Victoria's Railway King - Sir Edward Watkin, One of the Victorian Era's Greatest Entrepreneurs and Visionaries (Hardcover)
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Victoria's Railway King - Sir Edward Watkin, One of the Victorian Era's Greatest Entrepreneurs and Visionaries (Hardcover)
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The accomplishments, and initiatives, both social and economic, of
Edward Watkin are almost too many to relate. Though generally known
for his large-scale railway projects, becoming chairman of nine
different British railway companies as well as developing railways
in Canada, the USA, Greece, India and the Belgian Congo, he was
also responsible for a stream of remarkable projects in the
nineteenth century which helped shape people's lives inside and
outside Britain. As well as holding senior positions with the
London and North Western Railway, the Worcester and Hereford
Railway and the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway,
Watkin became president of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada. He
was also director of the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railways,
as well as the Athens-Piraeus Railway. Watkin was also the driving
force in the creation of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire
Railway's 'London Extension' - the Great Central Main Line down to
Marylebone in London. This, though, was only one part of his great
ambition to have a high-speed rail link from Manchester to Paris
and ultimately to India. This, of course, involved the construction
of a Channel tunnel. Work on this began on both sides of the
Channel in 1880 but had to be abandoned due to the fear of invasion
from the Continent. He also purchased an area of Wembley Park,
serviced by an extension of his Metropolitan Railway. He developed
the park into a pleasure and events destination for urban
Londoners, which later became the site of Wembley Stadium. It was
also the site of another of Watkin's enterprises, the 'Great Tower
in London' which was designed to be higher than the Eiffel Tower
but was never completed. Little, though, is known about Watkin's
personal life, which is explored here through the surviving diaries
he kept. The author, who is the chair of The Watkin Society, which
aims to promote Watkin's life and achievements, has delved into the
mind of one of the nineteenth century's outstanding individuals.
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