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Early Wooden Railways

Name: Early Wooden Railways
ISBN: 9781040435731

M. J. T. Lewis,

English
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Early Wooden Railways

M. J. T. Lewis,

About this book

The basic principle of the railway is one of great antiquity and wooden railways were used in many European mines from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. But the most far-reaching developments, as Dr. Lewis shows in this classic and hard-to-find reissued book, originally published in 1970, took place in British coalfields. Here on the many railways that were developed after 1600 the flanged wheel replaced the crude means of guidance found on the Continent and horses were employed to pull large waggons overland from the pits to rivers and harbours. This book, drawing largely on contemporary documents, discuss the early wooden railways of both Britain and Europe in terms of their operation, labour force, costs, engineering and location and demonstrates how these lines had a twofold importance. Economically, in supplying an adequate transport system, they enabled coal to be mined further from the waterways and thus encouraged a vast expansion in the coal trade; and they also laid the firm foundation on which the Railway Age of the nineteenth century was built.

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