The Railways of England

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Excerpt from The Railways of England: Containing an Account of Their Origin, Progress, and Present State, A Description of the Several Parts of a Railway, and a History of Their Invention, Together With a Map, With All the Lines Carefully Laid Down, Both of Those Already ConstructedThe present little Treatise has been compiled by Author of the Zoonoorcu. Gardens, to illustrate Mr. Gilbert's excellent Map of the Railways of England and Wales. It has been the endeavour of its writer to compress into the space allotted to him an account of the cause, the origin, the history, and the constituents of those important means of transit, and though he has not been able to enter into the subject as he could wish, and does not pretend, with engineering skill, to instruct those better informed on the subject than himself, he yet trusts that all the infor mation which is necessary to make any person acquainted with the progress and origin of railways will be found in his little volume. All the best authorities that were necessary for fulness and accuracy. Have been carefully consulted, and he has endeavoured to convey the statements they contained in a manner that would render them pleasing to the general reader.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.