Invention and Engineering

Earl of Dudley's Railway

The Earl of Dudley’s Railway or Pensnett Railway, was a 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge railway that developed from a single 3-mile (4.8 km) line opened in 1829 to, at its maximum extent, a 40-mile (64 km) long network around the Earl of Dudley’s Iron Works at Round Oak near Brierley Hill.

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• ▸British Rail Class 55
• ▸Hand-to-hand combat
• ▸Electronics industry

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