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-  2019 

The Irish Railway Commission (1836–39) aiming to reform railways in the United Kingdom and to improve the governance of Ireland

DOI: 10.1177/0022526618818398

Keywords: Ireland,railways,regulation,politics,laissez-faire

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This article uses a range of primary and secondary sources to analyse the work of the Irish Railway Commission 1836–39 and its challenge to the predominantly laissez-faire approach to railway development in Britain. The commission produced a model for developing railways with the state and public interest at its heart, and it advocated railways as a system that was planned to deliver specific political and economic objectives. It thereby threatened railway interests in Britain and mobilised senior political advocates of laissez-faire to defeat the commission. Nonetheless, its work was a substantial contribution to understanding Ireland and the weaknesses of nineteenth-century railway regulation that deserves a more prominent place in the history of the relationship between technology and politics

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