II · Ferrovia · 1846, the height of the railway mania
Ferrovia: coal, steel and steam in 1846
The short version. Ferrovia is the steam age of Be a CEO, set in 1846 at the height of the railway mania. You run a house of mines, mills and railways in a world of coal smoke and brass. It starts with £8,000 and 1 freight car, 8 towns, 12 routes, 10 goods and 5 rival houses.
Lay the lines, load the freight cars and run the works that feed a new age. Smoke, bridges and furnaces mark the map.
Houses like Fenwick & Hallam Bank and Crane Iron & Steel want the same coal, the same rails and the same ear in Parliament.
- Starting purse: £8,000
- Fleet at start: 1 freight car
- Towns: 8 (5 at the start, 3 open in later years)
- Routes: 12
- Goods: 10
- Works you can build: 14
- Rival houses: 5, and 3 more that enter later
Goods and base prices in Ferrovia
These are the base prices in the game’s data (£). Local supply and demand move them from the first day, so you buy where a good is made and sell where it is scarce.
| Good | Base price |
|---|---|
| Coal | £32 |
| Steel | £78 |
| Cloth | £22 |
| Grain | £6 |
| Tea | £230 |
| Brick | £11 |
| Slate | £13 |
| Wool | £16 |
| Sugar | £46 |
| Machinery | £120 |
Towns of Ferrovia
- CoalbrookValley coal town
- AshmoorFoundry town
- WexmillCotton-mill town
- Port HallamHarbour city
- LordsbridgeCapital of the Kingdom
- ShaleburySlate-quarry railway town · opens in later years
- FellmoorMoorland wool town · opens in later years
- GullhavenSugar harbour · opens in later years
Rival houses
Rivals at the start
- Fenwick & Hallam Bank
- Crane Iron & Steel
- Great Western Junction Co.
- Ashby & Lowe Spinning Co.
- Blackpit Colliery Company
Houses that enter later
- Lark Valley Canal Company
- Hobday Brothers Carriers
- Wren & Daughters Tea Merchants
Every rival house has a head with a temperament: cautious, balanced or reckless. When you grow too dominant, rivals can band together against you.
8 dilemmas from Ferrovia
- Every master in Wexmill says lock them outThe Wexmill hands have struck for a ten-hour day.
- Everyone says go round Cinder GapYour new line must pass Cinder Gap.
- Every broker says buy more railway sharesRailway shares are the only talk in every club.
- A clerk brings you Great Western's real accident bookA frightened clerk has brought you the Great Western's true accident book.
- Third class in open trucksEvery line carries third-class passengers in open trucks, in rain and smoke and sparks.
- Grain merchants say hold the famine grainThe potato blight has struck and Wexmill is hungry.
- Crane's furnaces have gone coldA furnace collapse has stopped every blast at Crane Iron & Steel.
- The King of Railways wants your lineMr Hector Grail, whom the papers call the King of Railways, offers to fold your house into his great amalgamation.
In the game
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