Günter Dinhobl (Hrsg.): Sonderband 7. Eisenbahn/Kultur – Railway/Culture (2004)

I. Für eine Kulturgeschichte der Eisenbahn / Towards a cultural history of railways - Michael Cotte: Railways and Culture: An Introduction

Michael Cotte

to gather the tremendous capital required for the first railway investments. Speculative attitudes accompanied the railway birth as well as new integrated industrial thinking. However, the main cultural effect was probably the drastic decrease in transportation costs, the massive rise in intensity and regularity of transport. What had once been an impossible challenge for generations, had become an ordinary habit for customers within just a few weeks!

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