Late Tony Judt was a professor at NYU. He wrote a wonderful essay on railways in New York Review of Books. The essay comes in two parts. First is The Glory of the Rails and second part is called Bring Back the Rails!
In the first part he explains how railways grew in importance and their role in urban development. Urban cities came up with importance of railways and railways stations in particular. Moreover, unlike other industries which become modern over a period of time, railways changed technology at a much faster scale. It bought distant towns closer to mainstream cities and helped bigtime in commerce.
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