Mr Toad meets the Wolf of Wall Street: York's railway king returns
His name made Charles Dickens howl and Thomas Carlyle dismissed him as a 'swollen gambler' but George Hudson has almost been written out of history. A new steam-powered show keeps track of the rail pioneerIn the great hall of the National Railway Museum in York, the director Damian Cruden climbs on top of a replica of George Stephenson's Rocket and explains to the crowd beneath him what he wants them to do. "When the…