In the early 19th century, North English commoner engineer 'machines doctor' George Stephenson, son of a coal miner, invented a steam-engine driving alternative to transport by canal barge. As this early train would cost the aristocratic canal owners a monopolistic fortune, they ordered a certain Bradshaw to sabotage the inventor by any means, mainly propaganda and politics, even violence. Nevertheless, he produced successful tests and found investors, so he gets a first railway build trough bog land.
—KGF Vissers