The Development of Transportation in Modern England 2 Part Paperback Set

Table of Contents

• Volume 1:
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Roads and road legislation, 1500–1750
• 3. River navigation, 1500–1750
• 4. Roads and their improvement, 1750–1830
• 5. Inland navigation, 1750–1830
• 6. Steam navigation. Volume 2:
• 7. Development of railways
• 8. Effects of steam upon road transportation
• 9. Competition of railways and canals
• Appendix 1. River Weaver navigation
• Appendix 2. Shapleigh on Highways (1749)
• Appendix 3. Hawkins on the Laws of Highways (1763)
• Appendix 4. On letting the tolls
• Appendix 5. Rate of travelling, 1750–1830
• Appendix 6. Cost of travelling, 1750–1830
• Appendix 7. Cost of carriage of goods by land, 1750–1830
• Appendix 8. Statistics of comparative cost of carriage by road and inland navigation
• Appendix 9. Table of canal and railway amalgamations, 1846–72
• Appendix 10. Statistics showing effects of railways in reducing canal freight rates
• Appendix 11. Statistics showing extent to which freight rates were raised through amalgamations of canals and railways
• Appendix 12. Illustrations of the way in which canals sometimes maintained competition against the railways
• Appendix 13. Statistical view of highway and canal legislation
• Appendix 14. Pickford et al. v. The Grand Junction Railway Company
• Bibliography
• Index.
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