Mesny also strongly promoted railways and other methods of "modernizing" China.

He consolidated the frontiers of India and reorganised the country's finances; he also did much to promote irrigation, railways, forests and other useful public works.

Government policy promoted railways due to lack of fossil fuels and nearly complete dependence on imports.

Sir Arthur Lawley was Governor of Madras from 1906 to 1911 and promoted modern agriculture, industry, railways, education, the arts and more democratic governance.

It was formed in 1991 to promote the use of, and improvements to, rural railways in Devon and Cornwall, and also to promote the places served in order to improve the local economy.

From there it moved to Westminster, to an area near Parliament which had become favoured by Victorian engineers promoting canals and railways, and was still popular with the profession.

He even participated in promoting railways and building sites.

It traded in a wide variety of imports and exports, promoted railways and other much needed infrastructure projects in China, and founded banks and insurance companies as the country strove towards modernisation.

He also promoted railways between Coleford, in the Forest of Dean, via Monmouth and Usk to Pontypool.

He exiled himself to Budapest and tried to promote railways in Russia and Hungary.