1862: Railway Mania in the Eastern Counties
2013
Experience the thrill of building and managing railway companies in East Anglia, England. Petition parliament, merge companies, manage capital and navigate the stock market in this complex strategy game.
300
minutes
1 - 8
player(s)
14+
Heavy
About the game
1862: Railway Mania in the Eastern Counties is an 18xx game set in East Anglia, England. It features a company-packed board, where 16 of 20 companies are randomly selected for use on a board containing only 37 hexes. Major features of the game are: Petitioning parliament as a means of floating your preferred company a mixture of full and partial capitalisation for companies three train types with differing objectives and building requirements company mergers and re-floatation 1860-style semi-linear stock-market featuring multiple stock jumps.