GEORGE HUDSON

'THE RAILWAY KING'

200 YEARS 1800 - 2000

 

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Railway King Trivia

Oddly the date of George Hudson, The Railway King's, death gives him an unusual royal connection as he died ten years to the day after Prince Albert, who died of typhoid on the 14th December 1861

 

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Bibliography
George Hudson of York by A.J. Peacock and David Joy, Dalesman, 1971.
George Hudson, the rise and fall of the Railway King, Brian Bailey, Alan Sutton,                  1995
The Railway King 1800-1871, a study of George Hudson and the Business Morals        of his Times, by Richard S Lambert, George Allen and Unwin, 1964.
 George Hudson 1800-1871 The Railway King, 2 Vols, A J Peacock, (no publisher        or date available (1988?)

 

Web Links

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 The National Railway Museum

                      (York)

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  UK Heritage Railways

(with excellent links)

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Institute of Railway Studies

(The University of York)
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Victorian Railway pictures

 

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The Early

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Building

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Crown

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Trivia

Books

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Worship

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This page is compiled by Timothy J. Owston of York, England.
Please contact me with any comments or information.
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Page written July 2000, Edition 3.