## 🚆 Railroads Facilitated National Oversight

This research investigates how the 19th-century railroad expansion in Sweden directly enabled state intervention in education. By providing inspectors with efficient transportation to remote areas, rail networks fundamentally reshaped educational governance.

## 🔍 Data & Methods

* Examined local education outcomes across Sweden during the industrial era

* Analyzed patterns of school attendance and curriculum content

to reveal a clear correlation between inspector accessibility by train and state policy implementation.