Where To Stream Railways The Making of a Nation Season 1 Episode 2
Capitalism and Commerce
- Aired October 6, 2016
- 30 Min
Episode two focuses on Capitalism and Commerce. The railways stimulated great changes to the nation's economy and they also changed the way business was done. This encouraged a new generation of mechanical engineers, skilled workers, managers and accountants. Originally, local railway entrepreneurs viewed trains as vehicles for shifting raw materials, stock and goods, but they soon discovered that there was money to be made from transporting people also. Places such as Derby became known as...