A transport boomSourced
Before railway mania came canal mania
In Britain in the 1790s, canal building attracted a rush of investment and new proposals. Successful waterways encouraged further schemes, but some authorized canals never paid dividends or were never completed.
Enthusiasm for tomorrow’s transport once flowed into waterways.
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