 Unlike most stock market bubbles, there was a net tangible result from all the investment in the form of a vast expansion of the British railway system, though perhaps at an inflated cost.When the government stepped in and announced closure for depositing schemes, the period of "Railway Mania", as it was called, was brought to an end.The commercial interests mentioned above were often of a local nature, and there was never a nationwide plan to develop a logical network of railways.