The Development of Transportation in Modern England 2 Part Paperback Set

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.