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...

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...

Tulip mania (Dutch: tulpenmanie) was a period during the Dutch Golden Age when contract prices for some bulbs of the recently introduced and fashionable...

(British) (1720) Mississippi Company (France) (1720) Canal Mania (UK) (1790s–1810s) Railway Mania (UK) (1840s) Roaring Twenties stock-market bubble (US) (1921–1929)...

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...

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...

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...

in the transport of freight and commodities, led to Railway Mania. Construction of major railways connecting the larger cities and towns began in the...

An unprecedented number of railway acts receive Royal Assent from Queen Victoria in the United Kingdom as the railway mania approaches its peak, Parliament...

2020-05-01. "Railway Archive". Archived from the original on 20 August 2007. Retrieved 7 July 2007. Lewin, Henry Grote (1936). The Railway Mania and its aftermath...

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...

there were 272 railways agreed by Act of Parliament, although not all of those were built, since it was the time of the Railway Mania. In addition lines...

locomotives, and within a decade the stock market bubble known as "Railway Mania" started across the United Kingdom. News of the success of steam locomotives...

Odlyzko. "Collective hallucinations and inefficient markets: The British Railway Mania of the 1840s" (PDF). "Mysterious Death Ruled Spontaneous Combustion"...

are two high-profile examples in the United States. Similar to the Railway Mania, the misfortune of one market sector became the good fortune of another...

of the late George Dewhurst". It was later moved beneath Darwen Street railway bridge and then to where it can be seen today in Fleming Square (following...

built without irrational exuberance." Meaning that you need some of this mania to cause investors to open up their pocketbooks and finance the building...

any financial asset bubble or social frenzy phenomena, such as the tulip mania of 17th century Holland. The phrase is often cited in conjunction with criticism...

schemes promoted locally were proposed. This led to the Railway Mania of 1845 when huge numbers of railway schemes, not all of them well thought out, were put...

Discworld novel Raising Steam, about the ongoing industrial revolution and railway mania in Ankh-Morpork. The gnomes and goblins in World of Warcraft also have...

its terminus at Haymarket railway station, stopping short of Princes Street. In the Railway Mania of the 1840s, the railway sought another Act of Parliament...

independent railway companies amalgamated or were bought by competitors, until only a handful of larger companies remained (see Railway Mania). Other nations...

Chicago real estate bubble Chilean silver rush (1830–1850) 1840–1870 Railway Mania (c. 1840–c. 1850) California gold rush (1848–1855) Queen Charlottes...

lines. After growing rapidly in the 19th century during the Railway Mania, the British railway system reached its height in the years immediately before...

improved transportation between California and the East Coast. The Panama Railway, spanning the Isthmus of Panama, was finished in 1855. Steamships, including...

the Institution of Civil Engineers. pp. 461–462. ISBN 0-7277-2939-X. Railway Mania of the 1800s Kohlmaier, Georg; Barna Von Sartory; John C. Harvey (1981)...

German railway linked the Franconian cities of Nuremberg and Fürth – it proved so successful that the decade of the 1840s saw "railway mania" in all...

formal (official) stock exchange and market in history. The Dutch tulip mania, of the 1630s, is generally considered the world's first recorded speculative...

against incomplete or defective works. They have their origin in the Railway Mania of the 1840s but are now common across the industry, featuring in the...

periods. The LB&SCR was formed at the same time as the bursting of the railway mania investment bubble, and so it found raising capital for expansion extremely...