NETWORK & CONNECTIONS

A location is part of your network if it has 1 or more of your

Industry tiles OR is adjacent to 1 or more of your Link tiles.
CONSUMING RESOURCES Two locations are considered connected to the other if there is a
route of Link tiles (from any player) from 1 location to the other.
Coal must be consumed from:
• The closest connected unflipped Coal Mine.
• The Coal Market starting at the cheapest price. BUILD
This requires a connection to Shrewsbury, Gloucester, Oxford,
Nottingham, or Warrington. 1. Discard a Location / Wild Location card with the name of the
Iron must be consumed from: intended Location OR Discard an Industry / Wild Industry card
• One or more unflipped Iron Works (any player). with icon for the Industry tile to be built with a Location that is
• The Iron Market starting at the cheapest price. connected to your network.
Beer must be consumed from any of the following sources: 2. Use the lowest level Industry tile matching the space. If available,
• Your unflipped Breweries anywhere use a single Industry space at a Location first.
• An opponent's unflipped Brewery connected to yours 3. Pay money on/to Turn Order track and resources to the supply.
• A Beer token beside the Merchant you're using. 4. Place coal, iron, or beer on tile as specified.
5. Sell coal (if connected to Merchant) or iron to the market
if the market has empty spaces.
SCOUT
Canal Era: Only 1 Industry tile per player in a Location.
1. Discard any 3 cards. Overbuilding: Over an opponent is allowed if there are no cubes on the
2. Take 1 Wild Location and 1 Wild Industry card. board anywhere and only over coal or iron. Over your own tile any
industry is allowed, return cubes to supply.
DEVELOP
NETWORK
1. Discard any card.
2. Remove 1 or 2 lowest level Industry tiles (not Lightbulb tiles) from 1. Discard any card.
your Player Mat. Consume 1 Iron per tile. 2. Place Link tile adjacent to a Location that is part of your network.
Canal Era: Canal line only. Rail Era: Rail line only.
3. Canal Era: Pay £3 ; Rail Era: Pay £5 and consume 1 coal or £15 for 2
SELL links, consume 2 coal and 1 beer (not Merchant).
1. Discard any card.
2. Pick an unflipped Cotton Mill, Manufacturer, or Pottery tile that is LOAN
connected to a Merchant tile with matching icon.
3. Consume the amount of beer indicated on the Industry tile. 1. Discard any card.
4. Flip the tile; advance Income marker on Progress track. 2. Take £30 from the bank. Move Income marker back 3 Income
5. Repeat steps 2-4 for any other of your tiles if desired. levels, placed on the highest spot of the group.
 ERA END CARD DISTRIBUTION
Each Era ends at the end of the round in which all players have Card Name/Type
used all cards in their hands. Belper - - 2
Derby - - 3
ERA END SCORING Leek - 2 2
Stoke-On-Trent - 3 3
1. For each Link tile, its owner scores VP equal to the Stone - 2 2
amount of link icons from each Industry tile in Locations
adjacent to the Link tile. This is scored for each Link tile Uttoxeter - 1 2
without regard as to which player owns the Industry tiles. Stafford 2 2 2
Remove each tile after it is scored.
2. For each flipped Industry tile, its owner scores VP equal to Burton-On-Trent 2 2 2
the number inside the hexagon on the bottom left of the Cannock 2 2 2
tile.
Tamworth 1 1 1
Scoring is the same for the end of both Eras. At game end, ties Walsall 1 1 1
are broken by:
Coalbrookdale 3 3 3
1. Highest Income Dudley 2 2 2
2. Most money remaining
Kidderminster 2 2 2
Wolverhampton 2 2 2
PREPARE FOR RAIL ERA Worcester 2 2 2
Birmingham 3 3 3
1. Removeall Level 1 Industry tiles from the main board.
Coventry 3 3 3
2. Reset Merchant Beer by placing 1 beertoken next toeach
emptyspace besidea non-blank Merchant tile. Nuneaton 1 1 1
3. Shuffleall players' discard piles intoa new Draw Deck. Redditch 1 1 1
4. Each playerdraws 8 cards. Iron Works 4 4 4
Coal Mine 2 2 3
Man.Goods/CottonMill - 6 8
Pottery 2 2 3
Brewery 5 5 5
Rounds in Each Era 10 9 8

Game Design by Martin Wallace

Graphic Design by David Forest & Lina Cossette, Damien Mammoliti, Gavan Brown;
v1.4 - by Tahsin Shamma