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George Hudson

Biography

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How Hot Dogs Helped Endear This British King to his U.S. Hosts

 

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George Hudson IV - Righteous (Official Video)

 

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Biography || King Of Railway : George Hudson || George Hudson Tower || george carlin hudson river

 

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Purson - Leaning On A Bear (Official Video)

 

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How All Passengers Survived the Miracle on the Hudson

George Hudson was an English railway financier and politician who, because he controlled a significant part of the railway network in the 1840s, became known as "The Railway King" – a title conferred on him by Sydney Smith in 1844.
  • Personal 

  • A line to London 

  • Other YNMR lines opened under Hudson's chairmanship 

  • Railway Clearing House 

  • Midland Railway 

  • Opposition to the Great Northern Railway (GNR) 

  • North from York 

  • Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) 

  • Fraud and ruin 

  • York 

  • Sunderland 

  • Whitby 

  • Final years 

  • How others saw him 

  • Family life 

  • Monkgate, York 

  • Baldersby Park 

  • Albert Gate, London 

  • Londesborough Park Estate near Market Weighton 

  • Memorials