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1. The Victorian Transport Revolution

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After The Canal Duke: A Study of the Industrial Estates administered by the Trustees of the Third Duke of Bridgewater in the Age of Railway Building 1825–1872. By MatherF. C.. Oxford University Press, 1970. Pp. xx + 392. £4.00.
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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Geoffrey Alderman
Geoffrey Alderman
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University of Reading
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The Historical Journal , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , September 1971, pp. 635 - 644
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3 See Channon, G., ‘The Aberdeenshire Beef Trade with London: a Study in Steamship and Railway Competition 1850–69’, Transport History, II (1969), 1–24.Google Scholar

4 The same is true of the railways in Scotland; see Vamplew, W., ‘Railways and the Transformation of the Scottish Economy’, Econ.H.R., 2nd ser., xxiv (1971), 37–54.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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