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Summary
| Description |
English:
Political cartoon
depicting the evils of the
break of gauge
on the railway at
Gloucester
in 1846. In historical hindsight it is known that the chaotic nature of
transloading
at Gloucester in the 1840s was
deliberately maximized
as a
spectacle
to serve as a political weapon in the
Gauge War
, and that ways of mitigating it were available but were not implemented. Regardless, at the time such chaos was widely interpreted as an obvious lesson in the folly of allowing more than one gauge, and it had real impact on
public opinion
.
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| Date | |
| Source | Illustrated London News, June 6, 1846 |
| Author | J. H. Townshend |
Licensing
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This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer . This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office ) before January 1, 1929. |
| This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. | |
Creation
This original engraving was published in 1843; I have adapted and modified it to make it suitable for a general contemporary audience.