Early railways 5
Subtitle: papers from the fifth International Early Railways Conference
By: edited by David Gwyn
Contributors: Gwyn, David, 1957- editor
Publisher: Six Martlets Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Clare, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
Subjects: Railroads; History; Congresses
Other titles: Early railways five
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Wollaton or Brosely? : the gap narrows  -- John New; title: Seventeenth century footrails : a confusion of terminology  -- Peter King; title: The Harrington waggonway and copperas works and the Curwen collieries  -- Philip Ashforth; title: Early Australian railed-ways, 1788-1855  -- Jim Longworth & Phil Rickard; title: Australia's first railway : an entrepreneuerial adaptation of skill and technology from leading international collieries  -- Rod Caldwell, David Campbell & John Brougham; title: Space, time and early railways : oddities from the other end of the world  -- Ian Carter & Ellen Carter; title: Railways in Gwynedd, 1759-1848  -- David Gwyn; title: The evolution of early railways in Winstanley, Orrell and Pemberston, Lancashire, England, 1770s-1870s  -- Derek Winstanley; title: Sources of finance for early Cornish railwasy -- Michael Messenger.; title: Buying iron : the case of the Plymouth and Dartmoor railway  -- Peter Northover; title: A Lancashire colliery railway in transition : the Haydock colliery railways, 1757-1835  -- John Crompton; title: Missing links : some atypical early railways in Britain  -- Andy Guy; title: Early passenger carriage by raiil  -- Michael Lewis; title: William Bunton's walking engines and the Crich rail-road  -- Dieter Hopkin; title: As others saw us : some views of Salamanca  -- Sheila Bye; title: Working the Peak Forest Railways : some revised interpretations  -- Grahame Boyes; title: Early iron railways and plateways in Leicestershire  -- Fred Hartley; title: The Tavistock canal plateways and edge railways, West Devon  -- Robert Waterhouse; title: Stoneways  -- Tim Smith; title: The Bell Rock lighthouse railway  -- Roland Paxton; title: Dalkey Quarry tramway, 1815-c1855 -- Dan McCarthy.