I enjoyed the first part of Dan Snow's history of railways, but yet again Henry Booth got little more than a sidebar mention. The degree of his engineering involvement in some areas is disputed ( though in others isn't at all and is admitted by all), but while The Rocket at least was given to George Stephenson's son rather than himself as is more usual, no mention of Booth. Regardless of whether the multi-tubular boiler really was his invention as claimed in many quarters, the Rain Hill award for the most successful locomotive was given jointly to Stephenson Jnr and Booth together, so worthy of a mention I would have thought. maybe they'll pick up his other vital contributions in part 2 ( though i won't hold my breath).
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