Early Railways: A Selection of Papers from the First International Early Railways Conference

Sir Neil Cossons, Dr M. J. T. Lewis, Lars Olov Karlsson, Dr John van Laun, Dr David Gwyn, Rev Dr R. L. Hills, Prof Roland Paxton, Mike Wilmott, Andy Guy, Jim Rees, Colin E. Mountford, Grahame Boyes, Richard Gibbon, Mike Clarke, Ian Cowburn, Prof Frederick C. Gamst, Herb MacDonald, Dr Michael R. Bailey, John P. Glithero, Dr John Banham, Dr Winifred Stokes, J. H. Baldwin, Dieter W. Hopkin, Ian Ayris, Dr Alan W. Bunch, Anthony Coulls, John Crompton, David de Haan, Stephen Hughes, Adrian Jarvis, Alan M. Levitt, Marco A. Mobius, Jill Murdoch, J. S. Shipway, M. G. Brown, Liviu Sofonea

ISBN 10: 090468508X / ISBN 13: 9780904685084

Published by Newcomen Society, 2001

About this Item

2001 Newcomen Society hardcover edition. Some reading wear, lean to spine else good condition. Contents: (1) Introduction, (2) Keynote address, Sir Neil Cossons, (3) Railways in the Greek and Roman world, (4) A rediscovered early rail waggon, (5) Pre-1840 trackways in south Wales, (6) Transitional technology: the Nantlle railway, (7) The railways of James Watt, (8) An engineering assessment of the Kilmarnock & Troon railway (1807 - 46), (9) Early railways in Dorset: the industrial railway of Purbeck, (10) North eastern locomotive pioneers 1805 to 1827; a reassessment, (11) The strange story of the Steam Elephant, (12) Rope haulage: the forgotten element of railway history, (13) An alternative railway technology: early monorail systems, (14) Rings, springs, strings and things: the national collection pre 1840, (15) The first steam locomotives on the European mainland, (16) The origins of the St Etienne rail roads, 1816 - 38; French industrial espionage and British technology transfer, (17) The transfer of pioneering British railroad technology to North America, (18) The Albion mines railway of 1839 - 1840; some British roots of Canada's first industrial railway, (19) Learning through restoration; the Samson locomotive project, (20) Coal, banks and railways, (21) Early railways and regional identity, (22) The Stanhope and Tyne railway; a study in business failure, and (23) Reflections on the iconography of early railways.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Early Railways: A Selection of Papers from the First International Early Railways Conference
• Publisher: Newcomen Society
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 090468508X
• ISBN 13: 9780904685084
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Railways