Unlike some stock market bubbles, however, there was actually a net tangible result from all the investment: a vast expansion of the British railway system,though perhaps at an inflated cost.
The line in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, "They threatened its life with a railway share" [1] (http://www.underthesun.cc/Classics/Carroll/snark/snark6.html), is a reference to the Railway mania and those who lost money investing in it.
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