Cover art for 1862: Railway Mania in the Eastern Counties

1862: Railway Mania in the Eastern Counties

2013 · BGG
Avg rating
8.21
Bayes rating
6.48
Weight
4.61 (Heavy)
Players
1-8
Playtime
5 hr
Ratings count
1,232

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Description

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.

Play mode

Solo

How it plays

Auction & bidding Resource & economic management Tile, map & route building

Game type

Board game

What it’s about

Business, building & transportation

Publishers

GMT Games Korea Boardgames LMN+B, Ltd

Designers

Mike Hutton