Title: A practical treatise on railways, explaining their construction and management ... being the article "Railways" in the seventh edition of the Encyclopedia britannica, with additional details
First published: 1839
Description: This book is about trains and all aspects of railroad operations in Britain rather than America, but is a useful guide to railroad operations as they were in the 1830s.

Chapter headings are:

-Preliminary observations – arrangements before commencing the works.
-Preparation of working drawings, and specifications for contracts.
-Mails, carriages, waggons, horse-boxes, etc.
-Buildings at stations, and apparatus.
-Duties of Engine-men, and necessary regulations along the line.
-Description of engines, and methods of working them.
-Annual expenses of railways.
-Great western railway reports.
-System of direction and management.
-History of locomotive engines.
-Explanation of the plates.
-List of railways, when Act was passed, and amount of money raised, or authorized to be raised.
Subjects: Early works to 1850, Railroads
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 1830s
LC classification: TF144 .L46