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The Origins of the Scottish Railway System 1722-1844

by C. J. A. Robertson

ISBN: 9781904607403
Imprint: John Donald
Publication Date: Mar 2003
Format: Paperback
Price: £25.00
Stock Status: in stock

’a masterful piece of detailed research, backed up by acres of notes and tables showing working expenditure, engineering costs of inter-urban railways, etc.’
- Scots Magazine

Scottish nineteenth-century railways have suffered from a degree of neglect by economic historians; this study fills the gaps for the earliest period of Scottish railway history.

It covers the years from the first waggonway developments in the eighteenth century tothe advent of the railway mania of the 1840s and concentrates on the planning and formation of the various railways, the problems and achievements associated with their construction, and the financial record of the companies up to 1844.

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