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  1. Currently reading David Gwyn's "Coming of the Railway" including the snippet that Telford surveyed a route for an iron railway between Glasgow and Berwick in 1810 for landed gentry in the Scottish Borders wanting to reduce cost of coal and lime and to open up a market for their grain.
    #ScottishBorders
    #Glasgow #Berwickshire #RailwayHistory
    #EarlyRailways