Currently reading David Gwyn's "Coming of the Railway" including the snippet that Telford surveyed a route for an iron railway between Glasgow and Berwick in 1810 for landed gentry in the Scottish Borders wanting to reduce cost of coal and lime and to open up a market for their grain.
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Bit of a niche read here, but some interesting research just published about the Quakers and the Stockton & Darlington Railway.

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https://www.sdr1825.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/The-Quaker-Line-Alan-Townsend-Ed.pdf