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'The Railway Interest', 1875. Edward William Watkin (1819-1901), English railway promoter and politician. Known as The Second Railway King, among his railway interests were directorships on the Great Eastern Railway and the Great Western Railway, and Chairman of the South Eastern Railway, the Metropolitan Railway and the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway. Elected MP for Stockport (1864-1868) and for Hythe, Kent, (1874-1895). Knighted in 1868 and created Baronet in 1880. Cartoon from Vanity Fair. (London, 6 November 1875).