Edward Watkin was amazing. Metropolitan Line? Check. Channel Tunnel? Check. Great Central Railway, the first inter-city continental-gauge railway in Britain? Check[1]. Pioneered a difficult ascent up Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales? Check[2]. Planned lucrative housing development along public transport infrastructure, known as Metroland? Check[3].

There's a movie in there somewhere.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Central_Railway

[2] https://www.markhorrell.com/blog/2012/snowdon-via-the-watkin...

[3] http://www.crecy.co.uk/a-history-of-the-metropolitan-railway...