The world's first railway system [electronic resource] : enterprise, competition, and regulation on the railway network in Victorian Britain / Mark Casson. Casson, Mark, 1945- Railroads and state Great Britain History 19th century. Railroads Economic aspects Great Britain. HE3018 385.094109034 22 Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record. This text presents a history of the British railway system written from a modern economic perspective. It uses counterfactual analysis to construct an alternative network to represent the most efficient alternative rail network that could have been constructed given what was known at the time. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. 2009. 2009 Text 1 online resource (544 p.) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199213979.001.0001 eng Great Britain Great Britain.