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The only train trips I regret are the ones I didn't take.
The only train trips I regret are the ones I didn't take.
Wow, the British Isles seemed to have had a monopoly of wonderful inventors and engineers around the turn of the 19th century! Thanks for the video, Mr. Martin. Sam
Thank you, Sam. This internet is wonderful. Near the end of this video it mentions Trevithick's association with Samuel Homfray. I lifted the following paragraph from from Adrian Vaughn's book about the Great Western Railway and inserted in the Wiki article about Tredegar, in Monmouthshire, south Wales.
"But all of this development came at a price. Adrian Vaughn, in his 1985 book "Grub, Water & Relief," mentions that in 1832 John Gooch [Daniel Gooch's father] took a managerial post in the Tredegar iron works:
“ Utterly remote at the head of the Sirhowy valley, the town was a man-made hell. Men and children worked killing hours in the smoke and filth of the foundries and were maimed by molten metal. Their only medical help was that administered by the 'Penny Doctor.' Wages were paid in Homfray's private coinage — banks were not allowed in the town — so workers spent their coins in Homfray's shops, buying food at Homfray's prices. Poverty and malnutrition followed and disease followed both."
John Gooch was one of the victims of the plague there. And it was there that Daniel would begin training under Thomas Ellis senior, who together with Ironmaster Sam Homfray and Richard Trevithick pioneered steam railway locomotion.
"But all of this development came at a price. Adrian Vaughn, in his 1985 book "Grub, Water & Relief," mentions that in 1832 John Gooch [Daniel Gooch's father] took a managerial post in the Tredegar iron works:
“ Utterly remote at the head of the Sirhowy valley, the town was a man-made hell. Men and children worked killing hours in the smoke and filth of the foundries and were maimed by molten metal. Their only medical help was that administered by the 'Penny Doctor.' Wages were paid in Homfray's private coinage — banks were not allowed in the town — so workers spent their coins in Homfray's shops, buying food at Homfray's prices. Poverty and malnutrition followed and disease followed both."
John Gooch was one of the victims of the plague there. And it was there that Daniel would begin training under Thomas Ellis senior, who together with Ironmaster Sam Homfray and Richard Trevithick pioneered steam railway locomotion.
The Homfray dinasty.
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