A practical treatise on railways, explaining their construction and management ... being the article "Railways" in the seventh edition of the Encyclopedia britannica, with additional details

By Peter Lecount

Subjects: Early works to 1850, Railroads

Description: This book is about trains and all aspects of railroad operations in Britain rather than America, but is a useful guide to railroad operations as they were in the 1830s. Chapter headings are: -Preliminary observations – arrangements before commencing the works. -Preparation of working drawings, and specifications for contracts. -Mails, carriages, waggons, horse-boxes, etc. -Buildings at stations, and apparatus. -Duties of Engine-men, and necessary regulations along the line. -Description of engines, and methods of working them. -Annual expenses of railways. -Great western railway reports. -System of direction and management. -History of locomotive engines. -Explanation of the plates. -List of railways, when Act was passed, and amount of money raised, or authorized to be raised.