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Rainhill Trials

18th Century

Nicholas Wood: The man who wrote the book on railways

10th August 2026 Going Postal 0

He taught Robert Stephenson his trade, judged the Rainhill Trials, and wrote the first proper book on railways, the one that engineers across the world actually used. Not all of us can be gallivanting around [more…]

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