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Mike
shed (the size of a ballroom). The track is assembled
coke, single tube boilers.
And as it was 112 years ago the price probably corresponded to many Millions of pounds nowadays!
Splendid is the perfect adjective. Multipliers of around 50-100 are generally about right for the turn of the century. It's not straightforward, because obviously the relative price of different items has shifted a lot - so those men building the track would have been paid a relative pittance by todays standards, not just an actual pittance. But something approaching £1m is about right, I would say. Judging by the article, presumably about 2/3 of that was on the room.
Chas
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