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==History== | ==History== | ||
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The statelets of [[Matritime Dericania]] ([[Burgundie]]) were sluggards in building railways, compared to [[Urcea]] and the rest of the interior of [[Kingdom of Dericania]] which had already demonstrated their worthiness by [[1830]]. Due to the [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] tradition of [[Culture_in_Burgundie#Hyper-Urbanization|hyper-urbanization]], urban land was expensive, as was iron and {{wp|anthracite}} (preferred over the [[Energy_policy_in_Burgundie#History|lignite coal common]] in [[Maritime Deriania]]). A more serious obstacle was powerful political opposition, especially as mobilized by the principalities transport companies that used canals, roads, and rivers. They blocked the necessary railway charters. Mining companies in [[Faramount]], in [[1828]], opened the first railway to move coal, most of the work was done by horses, although steam locomotives were used for the last segment. Passenger service opened in [[1835]]. Rail was invested in by dukes and counts as a personal hobby leading to a wide variety of gauges, lengths of rail, and types of rail service. It wasn't until the [[Frist Fratricide]] and the use of rail for military purposes by the more standardized and unified interior states of [[Kingdom of Dericania]] the that new state of [[Burgundie]] could no longer avoid the obvious need for a grand rail infrastructure, unified by more standardized gauges, regulated and inspected by the government but owned and operated by the private sector. | |||
===1866-1897=== | ===1866-1897=== | ||
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