A practical treatise on railways
Subtitle: explaining their construction and management, with numerous woodcuts and ten plates : being the article "Railways" in the seventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, with additional details
By: by Lieut. Peter Lecount.
Publisher: A. & C. Black
Published: 1839
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
Subjects: Railroads -- Early works to 1850
Notes: Plates numbered: ccccxx-ccccxix.
Table of contents: title: -Preliminary observations – arrangements before commencing the works.; title: -Preparation of working drawings, and specifications for contracts.; title: -Mails, carriages, waggons, horse-boxes, etc.; title: -Buildings at stations, and apparatus.; title: -Duties of Engine-men, and necessary regulations along the line.; title: -Description of engines, and methods of working them.; title: -Annual expenses of railways.; title: -Great western railway reports.; title: -System of direction and management.; title: -History of locomotive engines.; title: -Explanation of the plates.; title: -List of railways, when Act was passed, and amount of money raised, or authorized to be raised.