Going through a 1910 railway atlas of Europe available online in Polona (the Polish National Library's online digitized collection)… I don't think I've felt quite so viscerally the depths to which Russia held back the development of railways here before

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Going through a 1910 railway atlas of Europe available online in Polona (the Polish National Library's online digitized collection)… I don't think I've felt quite so viscerally the depths to which Russia held back the development of railways here before

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Another nice thing about the atlas (which is tagged as Public Domain by the way, you can check it out here: https://polona.pl/preview/8c90adba-7f04-45e9-b923-f79ab2d6452d), is the wealth of ship connections depicted, each line lovingly marked with the nationality of the company running it. Marseille-Yokohama in 38 days, anyone?