A Hundred Years of Inland Transport, 1830-1933
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- Author(s) Sherrington, Charles E R
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1934
- Pages 376pp; illus
- Publisher Duckworth
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Reprinted 1969. General account of transport in the railway era with a very strongly focused on railways. Chapters include: 'Pre-Victorian transport - a glance backwards from 1830'; '1830-39 - the coming of the railway - effect on turnpikes and canals'; '1840-49 - railway amalgamation and highway transport'; '1850-59 - railway extension and the Royal Mail'; '1860-69 - railways, telegraphs and omnibuses'; '1870-79 - railways, rolling stock and legislation - tramways'; '1880-89 - passenger train services, permanent way and bicycles'; '1890-99 - the tramway and the internal combustion engine and the races to Aberdeen'; '1900-09 - railway electrification, development of the motor omnibus'; '1910-19 - prewar prosperity, railway efficiency, the war period'; '1920-29 - postwar railway reconstruction and the rise of the motor vehicle'; '1930-33 - the correlation of transport facilities'; '1830-1933 - the English scene - a retrospect'