Clearing snow on the Highlands Railway, The Illustrated London News, March 24, 1866.
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Steam powering progress

How Victorian railways were the engine of modern technologies

Steam trains may now be associated with nostalgia, but as Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss, they were at the forefront of a wide range of engineering and technological advances.

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