Railway Mania was a stock market bubble in the rail transportation industry of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the 1840s. It followed...
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bubbles. In later editions, Mackay added a footnote referencing the Railway Mania of the 1840s as another "popular delusion" which was at least as important...
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stepped in and announced closure for depositing schemes, the period of "Railway Mania", as it was called, was brought to an end. The commercial interests...
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Economic bubble (redirect from Speculative mania)
(British) (1720) Mississippi Company (France) (1720) Canal Mania (UK) (1790s–1810s) Railway Mania (UK) (1840s) Roaring Twenties stock-market bubble (US) (1921–1929)...
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Tulip mania (Dutch: tulpenmanie) was a period during the Dutch Golden Age when contract prices for some bulbs of the recently introduced and fashionable...
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Canal Mania was the period of intense canal building in England and Wales between the 1790s and 1810s, and the speculative frenzy that ensued in the early...
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Thomas Brassey (category British railway civil engineers)
the end of the "railway mania", Brassey had built one-third of all the railways in Britain. Following the end of the "railway mania" and the drying up...
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Industrial Revolution (section Railways)
in the transport of freight and commodities, led to Railway Mania. Construction of major railways connecting the larger cities and towns began in the...
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An unprecedented number of railway acts receive Royal Assent from Queen Victoria in the United Kingdom as the railway mania approaches its peak, Parliament...
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LNER Thompson Class A1/1 (category London and North Eastern Railway locomotives)
Martin 2021, p. 102. Railway Mania 2019, 1:26:30. Allen 1962, p. 99. Martin 2021, p. 105. Martin 2021, p. 106. Railway Mania 2019, 52:45. Martin 2021...
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