One of the contractors of the Kendal Windermere Railways had also built one third of the railways in which country by 1847?
Thomas Brassey Thomas Brassey (7 November 1805 – 8 December 1870) was an English civil engineering contractor and manufacturer of building materials who was responsible for building much of the world's railways in the 19th century. By 1847, he had built about one-third of the railways in Britain, and by time of his death in 1870 he had built one in every twenty miles of railway in the world. This included three-quarters of the lines in France, major lines in many other European countries and in Canada, Australia, South America and India. He also built the structures associated with those railways, including docks, bridges, viaducts, stations, tunnels and drainage works.
Apeldoorn–Zwolle railway The Apeldoorn–Zwolle railway was a railway in the Netherlands connecting Apeldoorn with Zwolle. The railway was constructed by the Royal Netherlands Railway Company (KNLS) and opened between 1887 and 1889. The railway sooned earned the nickname "Baron Line", thanks to the number of nobles living along the line. The railway was closed in 1950 and largely demolished in the 1970s.