Appendix to Railway practice: containing a copious abstract of the whole of the evidence given upon the London and Birmingham, and Great Western railway bills, when before Parliament, properly digested and arranged, wth marginal notes: to which is ad

Language: English. Approximately 373 pages. English: Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1839. Text in English. This rare 1839 work by Samuel Charles Brees provides a detailed appendix to railway practice, summarizing evidence from parliamentary debates on the London and Birmingham, and Great Western railway bills. It includes a comprehensive glossary of technical terms in civil engineering and details of Hawthorne's celebrated locomotive engine for the Paris and Versailles Railway. A valuable resource for historians of railway engineering and 19th-century infrastructure development. Book images are non-contractual.