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 Years ago in a country village the writer used to know an old fellow who 
 had a perfect passion for discussing questions concerning the local manage- 
 ment of the " Nor Western." There was no doubt about it, Dan's interest 
 in the "Nor Western" was to be eternal, for Dan had been one of its 
 Platelayers! And there were men who even said Dan would have been 
 MANAGER of the great Company by now, but for the trifling objection that 
 he was "no scholar!" 
 
 Since I last sat in Dan's little rural cottage encircled by the proper 
 requisites for producing milk and honey, with which the taste of the 
 delightful old navvy had led him to surround himself, I have witnessed the 
 equally passionate interest in various little historical matters connected 
 with railways among men in all spheres of life, among the heads of great 
 commercial houses, and on till its interest could be seen within sight (so to 
 speak) of the throne itself. And such a publication as this will, it is hoped, 
 make authors' labours easier in seeking to satisfy further public taste for 
 these old matters. 
 
 Among men, so many of whom I know are ready to be " to one's virtues 
 very kind, and to one's faults a little blind," it would be almost possible to 
 hope for the same honourable reception for these pages that an English 
 Dictionary received from an old Scotchwoman in the far north, who con- 
 sidered it " verra interesting especially if it hadna changed the subject 
 quite sae often," but while feeling that with greater skill much greater 
 interest might have been imparted to these pages, and disappointed that in 
 general arrangement, continuity, and the ugliness caused by the felt need 
 of using CATCH WORDS for an easier reference to contents. 1 have not quite 
 realised my aim, yet I hope that the very kindly reception afforded by 
 Collectors and the Press to our last small compilation will be extended to 
 this, which has involved much greater labour and expense. As to the 
 accuracy and value of any remarks relating to the more technical books, I 
 should fear for their good reception, had experience not taught that there 
 is not on the face of the globe any race of men more genial in their 
 character than our engineers, and more generous to acknowledge any honest 
 attempt to do for them what they lack the time to do for themselves. 
 
 In reference to the question of rarity it may b^ as well to remark that 
 witba very slight increase in the number of collectors of the early railway 
 books these books will become some of the most difficult to procure. It 
 seems wonderful, considering the number of publications of a period no 
 further back than that of the railway mania of 1845 how very scarce the 
 records of that mania are. GRAY was noted for the profuseness of his 
 writings, but where are the traces of it now ? The railway Press again was 
 not only of a high character, but of large circulation. Very many of its 
 volumes were thoroughly well worthy of preservation, and are now in 
 demand for the important records they contain. Indeed, no collector 
 would willingly be without a set of the ' Times, ' or ' HERAPATH,- or of the 
 'Record,' one or the other. How more than a very few future collectors 
 et, the.m % hj>wfver, I do not know, for it is obvious that the, 
 
of the Itlisranir 
 of iht Jlailtoag 
 
 First Suggestion of a System of Railways. 
 
 is History of Ratht/tyS Mi. FRANCIS gives Dr. ANDERSON 
 credit for being the FIRST TO SUGGEST AN ORGANISED 
 SYSTEM OF RAILWAYS and enters fully into the Doctor's 
 ideas, plans and estimates. "The notions were sagacious 
 and instructive," he says, " but the time had not arrived for 
 the thorough and earnest consideration of the railway 
 system." The idea mcoted by Dr. ANDERSON found 
 devoted followers in GRAY and JAMES. The Doctor's 
 suggestions will be found in the "Recreations" below, 
 Vol. IV. p. 198 
 
 Anderson (James, LL. D.) Recreations in Agriculture, 
 etc. 4 vols. d8 25/ 1801 
 
 WILLIAM JAMES. 
 
 OR a little work dealing with the important part taken in the 
 History of Railways by WILLIAM JAMES, see under 
 BIOGRAPHIES infra.} 
 
 GRAY. The Railway Pioneer. 
 
 1823 3 JBoTH FRANCIS and GALT attribute to the indefatigable 
 efforts of THOMAS GRAY (the poor Nottingham mechanic) 
 the honour of being the first man persistently to agitate the 
 British public on the ADVISABILITY of public locomotive 
 railways. And both authors have deemed HIS INFLUENCE 
 OF THE FIRST IMPORTANCE. It is now almost impossible 
 to procure any of his first writings, and those below are 
 exceedingly rare, and are the earliest railway books of their 
 size. The fourth edition of his " OBSERVATIONS " in 
 advocating the railway system, while suggesting railways to 
 many towns, spoke ONLY OF TWO RSCENTLY PROPOSED 
 LINES, viz., horn PLYMOUTH and in SCOTLAND; and 
 there was no sign whatever of any general public interest, 
 
 The frontispiece showed Blenkinsopp's locomotives pulling passenger and 
 goods trains. 
 
 Gray, Thos. Observations on a General Iron Rail- 
 way. d8 4th Edition. ^3/3 1823 
 
 GRAY. (The Rising Interest.) 
 1825 4 {Two YEARS later, however, Mr. GRAY had the satisfaction of 
 being able to chronicle a most decided AWAKENING OF . 
 PUBLIC INTEREST. Here and there in his next edition he 
 had to make alterations, and he swept away an economical 
 dissertation to make room for EXTRACTS from the PUBLIC 
 PRESS relating to NUMEROUS RAILWAY PROJECTS. He 
 had liked the suggestion of STEAM CARRIAGES on roads 
 but for goods only. He could refer to the proposed 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
;;; 2 
 
 History of L h,: S/-.^:.i conjured. 
 
 LIVERPOOL Line, to Mr. JESSOP'S PROJECT at CROMFORD, 
 and to one at STROUD. He quoted Partington's references 
 to Locomotives ere. His pages had grown from 131 to 223, 
 and were full of hope. But it is the last work of his I have 
 seen. Chevalier Wilson wrote of him in 1845 an( * he died 
 I believe in 1850. [See under BIOGRAPHY], 
 Gray, Thos. Observations on a General Iron Rail- 
 way or Land Steam Conveyance. d8 5th Edition. 
 With two plates. 3 3/ l82 5 
 
 THE "QUARTERLY REVIEW" ARTICLE. 
 1825 5 2is ALL MEN KNOW 1825 was a Mania Year. "To that 
 Mania," says FRANCIS in his History oj Railways (p. 136), 
 "ENGLAND OWES HER RAILWAY SYSTEM." And it was 
 during the course of that year that the Quarterly Revieiv ' 
 published the famous and oft-quoted article on RAILWAYS, 
 and in it referred to the Mania which was leading people to 
 dream of lands where : 
 
 "... the molten silver 
 
 Ruus out like cream on cakes of gold ; 
 
 And rubies 
 Do grow like strawberries." 
 
 The article was primarily a review of three of the earliest 
 railway publications (i) CUMMING'S Otigin of Railways 
 (2) SYLVESTER on -Railroads and (3) SANDERS on the 
 Liverpool and Manchester Railway. It agreed with Mr. 
 SANDERS in abhorrence of CANAL MONOPOLY, it highly 
 disapproved of Mr. CUMMING'S estimate of a 15-mile speed 
 for a Woolwich RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE (which it likened 
 to a CONGREVE ROCKET and even " backed old Father 
 Thames against the Woolwich Railway for any sum ") and 
 it preferred to think with Mr. SYLVESTER of a top speed of 
 8 or 9 miles an hour [though even that gentleman really put 
 it "9 or io"]i 
 
 The Quarterly Review containing the famous Artu 
 on Railways. Wrappers. io/ 1825 
 
 THE SECOND RAILWAY MANIA. 
 
 1837 6 HHE Subsidence of the SECOND MANIA can be seen in the 
 pages below asking "WHENCE THAT DECLINE FROM 
 
 ARDOUR TO APATHY SO MANIFEST IN MANY OF THE 
 ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBERS TO THESE SCHEMES," and urging 
 
 fines or forfeiture for those who will not pay up calls. 
 Hints to Railway Directors and Shareholders on tl 
 Subject of Unpaid Calls. 12 pp. 8 10/6 
 
 AN EARLY ADVOCATE. 
 
 1837 7 !HT the suggestion of two Members of the " Btrfr. 
 Bristol and Thame* June. Ry. Co" Mr. Geo. GODWIN 
 (Assoc. Inst. of Brit. Architects) wrote on the great 
 ADVANTAGES OF RAILWAYS, mentioning the general progress 
 in transport, the history of the MANCHESTER RAILWAY, 
 etc. and estimated that there were THEN IN ENGLAND 
 1500 MILES and in AMERICA over 3000 MILES of RAILWAY. 
 Godwin, Geo. An Appeal to the Public on the 
 Subject of Railways. 45 pp. 8 i$/ 
 
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 History of the System continued. 
 
 UNLUCKY ENGLAND. 
 
 1837 8 /IfcR. MUDGE was, after Mr. Morrison, the FIRST ADVOCATE 
 
 of a NATIONAL SYSTEM of Railways. He refers to the 
 FINANCIAL RESULTS of all the railways, the BENEFITS of 
 railways, the disadvantage of random schemes of "pitiful 
 jobbery," of '* schemes projected in a closet without even a 
 map." We can ONLY HAVE RAILWAYS he said on GENTLE 
 SLOPES and ENGLAND WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO HAVE 
 RAILWAYS LIKE GERMANY and AMERICA. He advocated 
 an official railway board with the leading member A PERSON 
 of DISTINCTION, SCIENCE, and TALENT the others sound 
 PRACTICAL MEN : one a MATHEMATICIAN, another a 
 GEOLOGIST, a third an ENGINEER, and a fourth a LAWYER^ 
 Mudge, R. Z. Observations on Railways with 
 reference to Utility, Profit and the Obvious Necessity 
 for a National System. 73 pp. 8 21 / Lond. 1837 
 
 On The Irish Commissioners' 2nd Report. 
 
 (Not 20 then but 100 now. ) 
 
 1838 9 HHE Quarterly Review after ridiculing poor GUMMING 
 
 and SANDERS in 1824 for broaching the idea of speed at 
 20 miles an hour expressed another view in 1838. The 
 SECOND REPORT of the IRISH COMMISSIONERS had been 
 issued and the Q.R. commenced its review of this with ten 
 pages on STEAMBOATS (mentioning that the largest was 
 3O-ft. longer than any British battle-ship and that U.S.A. 
 had then 500 STEAM BOATS). As to RAILWAYS it criticised 
 and approved the report, and then went so far as to state 
 that it believed a speed of SIXTY MILES AN HOUR on 
 railways was probable and indeed saw NO REASON WHY 
 100 MILES AN HOUR should not be accomplished IF 
 
 VERY LIGHT TRAINS WERE USED WORKED ON THE TOOTH 
 AND PINION PRINCIPLE. 
 
 uarterly Review Article on the Irish Commissioners' 
 econd Report. 6opp. io/ 1838 
 
 Poet of "the Western Railways." 
 
 1838 9a Jt i* a curious fact that Railways can claim a volume of 
 Poetry of 1838. p. 24 we are told that "It was the DUTY of 
 a Government Engineer at EXETKR to have his engine ready 
 to start at a moment's notice . . . [that] these locomotives travelled 
 alone at great speed and were known by white signals." . . And a 
 a stanza commences 
 
 " Decked in white flag, with panting heart of flame, 
 
 Enamoured of the strife with yielding space 
 
 Lay the Express. 
 
 At first one might think 1838 was early for Exeter Expresses, but this 
 is the book : 
 
 Visions of the Weste n Railways. Dedicated to Sir 
 Chas. Lernan. Roy 8 cloth, io/ Bagster, 1838 
 
 THE FIRST RAILWAY LAWS. 
 
 1838 io ^THE underment.oned Reports led to the passing of the First 
 
 TO Victorian Railway Acts. Among the items of interest may 
 
 1844 be noted that the LEEDS and SELBY RAILWAY by RAISING 
 
 FARES " against the public interest " INCREASED 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 

 4 
 History of the System continued. 
 
 THEIR INCOME BY 1300; and a reference ._ 
 WHEATSTONE AND COOKE'S TELEGRAPH which 
 ' ' transmits intelligence to any part oj the island with 
 instantaneous rapidity.'" The Telegraph, it says, cost on 
 G.W.R. 250 with annual expense trifling whereas between 
 London and Portsmouth cost 33 a Y ear not reckoning 
 original cost and was abandoned else where because of expense. 
 Select Committee Reports 1838 to 1844 and Acts (from 
 Viet. I. to VIII,) 138pp. 8 17/6 1844 
 
 Lord Seymour's Act for Board of Trade Control (vide Gait p. 367). 
 
 AN "ANGLO-LATIN" POET. 
 
 1841 ioa HE following poem is in honour of the introduction of the 
 railway system and contains references to Sengmn, the 
 Blast-pipe, etc. It was recited " in theatro Sheldoniano die 
 Tumi XV.," written by Franciscus Fanshawe, printed by 
 Carolus Whittineham. and published by Franciscus Macpherson (!) 
 
 Fanshawe, F. Viae Per Angliam Ferro Stratae 9 PP- 
 12 half calf. 7/6 Oxford, 1841 
 
 Railway Clearing House Established (uide "Stokers and Pokers.") 
 
 "THE GOOD OLD DAYS." 
 
 1843 ii B SERIO-COMIC Article entitled "A PLEA FOR ANCIENT 
 TOWNS" pointing out how railways will RUIN the 
 TRADESMEN of SMALL TOWNS, how remote towns will gel 
 the advantage of the less remote, how the FINE OLD INNS 
 DECAY and COACHES VANISH and suggesting how bTEA^ 
 CARRIAGES MAY DIVERT DESTRUCTION, how AS SARUM 
 WAS RUINED so may SALISBURY and other ancient towns 
 be, etc. etc. Making a most interesting article including 
 some brilliantly fine bits of description. Vide 
 Blackwood's Edinb. Magazine. No. 335 PP-39 tt 
 405 for September 1843. 8pp. 5/ 
 "SAVE US FROM OUR FRIENDS!!" 
 1843 12 ffto PUBLICATION was better abused by the railway pres: 
 than the one below. It was as a red rag to an angry bull 
 It advised STATE PURCHASE but showed that the Compame 
 continually resorted to disgraceful intimidation. It advocate* 
 IOWFR FARES and wound up with a LIST of the RAILWAY 
 at date WITH VALUABLE CRITICISMS RELATING TO THEF 
 SUCCESS OR FAILURE. It gave rise to the RAILWA 
 REFORM ASSOCIATION and probably influenced the passm 
 of the Act for State Purchase and for the Railway Dept. c 
 the Bd. of Trade. I think Mr. GALT was the author. 
 Railway Reform : its expediency and practicabilit 
 considered with Appendix giving a J^^B^J^J? 
 the railways in Great Britain and Ireland, fluctuatioi 
 in the prices of shares etc. io8pp. 2i/ 
 
 RAILWAY RATING. 
 
 1844 13 GREAT was the trouble in the year 1844 over the QUESTIO 
 of RAILWAY RATING. On the 8th June the Railway Tim 
 pointed out a case on the Sc. Western Line where 
 average of every other description of rateable property w: 
 
5 
 History of the System continued. 
 
 i 8/2 1 / per acre but the railway was ASSESSED AT 
 6$ 9/1 (!) The Morning Herald thought that to tax the 
 profit of the Co.'s trade was NOT ONLY GROSS INJUSTICE 
 but POSITIVE ILLEGALITY. Justice Denman however thought 
 otherwise. The following was probably the first monograph 
 on the subject. 
 
 Railway and Land Taxation : shewing the origin, 
 progress, law, operation and statistics of Poor and 
 other Rates, injustice to railways, digest of decisions 
 etc. 2ipp. and index d8 closely printed. 5/ 1844 
 
 1844 
 
 Gladstone's Act for Parliamentary Trains (3rd class couered carriages 
 with seats at a speed of 12 miles per hour to every station daily at 
 1d. per mile). (Gait p. 369). 
 
 THE GREAT MANIA A BUBBLE. 
 
 1845 14 J N tne excitable days of the great mania of 1845 the man 
 who hesitated seems to have been MADE A DIRECTOR. Mr. 
 MUNTZ, the Member for BIRMINGHAM, hesitated and in 
 January, 1846, found himself actually CHAIRMAN of 
 Parsons' SOUTHAMPTON MANCHESTER and OXFORD 
 RAILWAY. At a Meeting of the Co. in that month he 
 stated that Mr. PARSONS had deceived him, that he WOULD 
 
 RATHER HAVE GIVEN ;5OO THAN HAVE JOINED it, and 
 
 that he was ASHAMED of some of the men connected with 
 it. The press puffed up the Co., but it broke at the panic 
 and one of the last things heard of it was from one who took 
 60 shares on the strength of Mr. Muntz's name, who was 
 told that they had been looking up j^iooo WORTH OF 
 
 DISPUTED DEBTS but that ^3OOO LAW CHARGES HAD BEEN 
 
 INCURRED over them ! I HAVE SECURED SEVERAL 
 HUNDRED PAPERS, letters, documents, etc., referring to 
 this extraordinary Company which was apparently going AT 
 ABOUND from SOUTHAMPTON TO MANCHESTER and thence 
 to OXFORD JUNCTION. 27 MILES were actually surveyed 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham: 
 
6 
 
 History of the System continued. 
 
 for which I have " the little bill" (^"604 i6/). Other 
 papers show that one Surveyor was engaged but FOUND so 
 
 LITTLE TO DO that he ENGAGED HIMSELF FOR SERIOUS 
 WORK WITH ANOTHER COMPANY : while an AMUSING 
 
 LETTER signed *' R. W. Parsons, Capt. R. N." explains 
 that his hairdresser applied for shares in the concern [on 
 the strength probably of a rubbing acquaintance with the 
 gallant Captain], but the Exeter barber's CIRCUMSTANCES 
 were unknown. It is to be hoped he got off by a shave. 
 The papers throw a flood of light on the ways of promoters 
 in the days of the lailway mania. 
 
 Southampton Manchester and Oxford Junction. A 
 celebrated bubble of the railway mania. Several 
 hundred papers used and received in its promotion. 
 5 l8 45 
 
 THE MANIA REACHING THE SHOPS. 
 184-5 15 3" HAVE beiow a BASINGSTOKK relic of the RAILWAY 
 MANIA. When every grocer's errand boy was buying 
 SCRIP it was but natural that the knight of the tea canister 
 himself should know all about railways and Mr. GIBBS, of 
 BASINGSTOKK, was among those who -wrapped groceries 
 up in a map showing the railways at date. 
 Mr. Gibbs' Mania Map (i8x 12) 10/6 [1845] 
 
 RAILWAY PANIC. 
 
 1845 I5a iBlMONG the voices that spoke out in defence of railways 
 when the panic of November, 1845, had commenced was 
 Joseph M'Kenna. He offered suggestions for gauging the 
 value of investments at that critical time, said good lines 
 would be safe, and pointed to ;6oo, 000,000 spent over the French war 
 which never brought a farthing back in revenue. 
 
 M'Kenna, Jos. A Chapter on Railways and Railway 
 
 Schemes. 32 pp. 8 10/6 1845 
 
 RAILWAY DESPOTISM. 
 
 1845 16 CHOUGH LANDOWNERS often got absurd prices for land still 
 
 (as the work below pleaded) railways ought not to have 
 been allowed TO TAKE six ACRES OUT OF A MAN'S TEN and 
 
 MAKE NO CONNECTING ROAD WHATEVER. 
 
 Mence, R. M. (Barrister) Remarks on Ry. Acts and 
 Arbitrary Poweis of Cos. 14 pp. boards. 5/ 1845 
 
 COMPANIES' CARRYING LIABILITIES. 
 1346 17 ^IHERE was said to exist (and well might exist) in 1846 much 
 doubt as to RAILWAY CARRIERS' LIABILITY. Lord 
 Ellenbrough said they were "OF RUINOUS EXTENT." The 
 author of Railway Land and Taxation thereupon "explained 
 the why and because " and all that was then known for the 
 benefit of Passengers, Traders and the Companies. 
 Railway Carrying and Carriers' Law. 92 pp. 8 
 boards. 5/ 1846 
 
 "POSTPONE THE BILLS." 
 
 1846 18 2lT a meeting of the "Literary and Commercial Society" 
 
 of Glasgow Mr. WATSON, the CHAIRMAN of the GLASGOW 
 STOCK EXCHANGE, read the following paper, urging the 
 
History of the System continued. 
 
 postponement of the numerous Bills, and explaining the 
 effect of the railway mania on industrial prosperity. 
 Watson, Jas. A Paper on the present Railway 
 Crisis. 22 pp. 8. 7/6 1846 
 
 Mr. MORRISON ON GAMBLING. 
 
 1846 19 " liClE are making our railways too expensive, and these 
 Company AMALGAMATIONS should cease. The mania for 
 GAMBLING IN RAILWAYS should be stopped for the sake 
 of genuine trade." 
 
 Morrison, Jas., M.P. Observations on the Defects 
 of English Railway Legislation. 44 pp. 8 5/ 1846 
 SAVAGE LABOURERS. 
 
 1846 20 "READERS of Mr. FRANCIS' HISTORY will remember his 
 account of the EARLY RAILWAY LABOURERS, the DREAD 
 of them, their MISERABLE DWELLINGS their PROMISCUOUS 
 INTERCOURSE, and that Mr. CHADWICK first drew attention 
 to them before the Manchester Statistical Society , making 
 such startling statements as to give rise to a PARLIAMENTARY 
 COMMITTEE. This paper will be found included below. 
 Manchester Statistical Society. Papers on Railway 
 Labourers. By Robertson, Rawlinson, and Edwin 
 Chadwick, with preface by Mr. Chadwick. 51 pp. 
 8 10/6 [1846! 
 
 Railways Ruled by Turnpike Trusts. 
 
 1846 21 5 N DEVEY'S Life of Locke there is a curious reference to 
 some little failings of GEORGE STEPHENSON over the Grand 
 function contract, and in the pamphlet below the opinion 
 is expressed that railways should not be made by ENGINE 
 MAKERS, that the whole business ought to be undertaken 
 by TURNPIKE TRUSTS, and absurdities are illustrated in 
 the ORIGIN of the SOUTH EASTERN Railway, the CAREER 
 of THE BRIGHTON Railway, etc. 
 
 Troup, Jas. Railway Reform and Rights of the 
 Public in Railway Highways. 39pp. 8. 10/6 1846 
 THE CLEARING HOUSE. 
 
 1846 22 {THE following paper will serve as a first report of the 
 effects of the establishment of the RAILWAY CLEARING 
 HOUSE for through traffic (a convenience that arose through 
 diversity of gauge.) They were written, says Mr. S. 
 Sydney, by Mr. H. Morison, the founder of the system. 
 Origin and Results of the Clearing System in opera- 
 tion on the Narrow Gauee. 26pp. 8 U . 10/6 1846 
 THE MANIA AT GLASGOW. 
 
 1846 23 Jn the following memento will be found a petition signed by 
 a large number of GLASGOW Merchants, and a report of 
 the public meeting begging the Prime Minister, Sir Robt. 
 Peel, to PUT A CHECK on the RAILWAY BILLS THEN IN 
 PROGRESS, on account of the DANGER TO THE MERCANTILE 
 
 INTEREST. 
 
 Report and Resolutions of a Glasgow Public Meeting- 
 March 20th. i5pp. 8 r . 10/6 1846 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
8 
 
 History of the System continued. 
 
 STRUTT'S BILL. 
 
 1847 The year 1847 brought the Bill of Mr. STRUTT, It jrave "Sops for Cerberus" by 
 offering to make preliminary .survey more agreeable for the Co.s while "preparing a rod 
 for them by which any ' Jack in office' could 'meddle' with their most private affairs." 
 even the number, kind and salaries of their servants and inspection of all and every 
 paper and document might be asked for. It seemed to confuse the press ; they first 
 accepted it and then made a continuous howl at it. 
 
 1847 24 Jgven the voice of Mr. SAMUEL LAING (late Secretary of 
 the Railway Department of the Board of Trade) rang out 
 warning against Mr. STRUTT'S BILL. " We cannot 
 revoke powers and privileges once granted " he said. And 
 
 WE SHOULD HAVE MADE NO SUCH ADVANCE IN MILEAGE 
 OR SPEED HAD WE WORKED ON THE BELGIAN or FRENCH 
 
 SYSTEM. He gives us a sketch of early railway legislation 
 and its results, and said the Bill involved (i) a breach of 
 faith (2) injustice and (3) mischief. " Mr. Laing has 
 written the best and calmest expose* of the Bill that we have 
 seen " said HERAPATH. 
 
 Laing, S. Observations on Strutt's Bill. 32pp. 8 
 10/6 1847 
 
 1847 25 ANOTHER work carefully criticising the Bill and pointing 
 out the "MISCHIEF OF MEDDLING" said it would increase 
 expenses, dispense with engineering evidence, and with 
 " Bradshaw " (!) would decrease speed etc. 
 Observations on Strutt's Bill. 56pp. 8 7/6 Bigg 1847 
 THE NEW RATING LEGALLY EXPLAINED. 
 
 1847 26 21 VERY full account of the then recent Queens Bench 
 AND decisions on the famous Rating Cases of the So. WESTERN 
 
 1849 U7pp.] GRAND JUNCTION [ispp.] and GREAT WESTERN 
 [i6pp.] with explanation of the Law founded thereon will be 
 found in the following : 
 
 Penfold, Chas. Principle and Law of Rating of 
 
 Railways etc. for Relief of the Poor. g6pp. 8 7/6 1847 
 
 - Second Edition, ipopp. 8 7/6 1849 
 
 HISTORY OF THE MANIA. 
 
 1848 27 3foR a full descriptive account of the Railway Mania 
 
 D. Morier Evans may be consulted. lie deals with the 
 COMMERCIAL CRISIS 1847-8 but takes the separate epochs 
 of the Railway Mania, the Food and Money Panic etc. and 
 in it he mentions Mr. SPACKMAN (elsewhere referred to). 
 One interesting document quoted by Mr. Evans runs as 
 follows ' 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 Do you want a director of your railway? as I have lately been dealing 
 rather extensively in such comaiodities, and am a director of the "Direct - - - 
 
 advertised in the and other papers . . . and as I rind railways more 
 
 profitable than law, I have cut the latter. If you can put my name down as 
 as a director I shall be obliged. 
 
 Yours faithfully 
 
 Club. 
 
 Evans, D. Morier. The Commercial Crisis. d8 cl. 
 10/6 1848 
 
 A FINANCIAL HISTORY. 
 
 1848 28 GHOS. GRAY was the most persistent advocate for Railways. 
 JAMES MORRISON was the most persistent early reformer 
 for public benefit from them. He spoke in Parliament in 
 1836. He continually pleaded tor the public rights, and in 
 
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 History of the System continued. 
 
 1848 wrote on "English Railway Legislation" in which 
 he explains the INFLUENCE of the TEN PER CENT. PROFIT 
 
 LIMIT ON PREMIUMS, AMALGAMATIONS, and EXTENSIONS. 
 
 He shows the rise and fall of Companies' shares before and 
 after 1845-6, quotes Mr. HUDSON'S statement THAT ,50 
 
 INVESTED IN THE YORK and NORTH MIDLAND MIGHT 
 
 MEAN ^250 (through PREMIUMS) and furnishes us with 
 what amounts to A FINANCIAL HISTORY OF THE 
 RAILWAY SYSTEM FROM 1836 TO 1848. 
 Morrison, Jas. The Influence of English Railway 
 Legislation on Trade and Industry. i87pp. d8io/6 1848 
 PAISLEY SUPPORTS MR. LOCKE. 
 
 1849 29 JBELOW is a report of a speech by the Rev. PATRICK 
 BREWSTER, of PAISLEY, made in the Abbey Church 
 supporting Mr. LOCKE'S proposals for running SUNDAY 
 TRAINS. Mr. Brewster's bravery, perhaps, was equal to 
 that of William Wallace ? 
 
 Sunday Trains Defended. i8pp. p8. 5/ 1849 
 
 The Illustrious Philosopher Spackman. 
 
 1849 30 TldHEN the Times hurled its thunderbolt at the Railway 
 Mania Mr. Spackman found himself in pretty hot water. 
 He had been requested by that paper in November, 1845, 
 to show the British public that they had really no idea of 
 the impossible amount of money that they were guaranteeing 
 to railways. And it seems that in estimatingit at ,590,000,000 
 he " laid the paint on pretty thick," for he included the 
 most obvious bubbles with capital ad libitum. A glance at 
 the railway press at date will show the feverish excitement 
 he produced there. Tuck, too, of " Shareholders' Manual" 
 fame, screamed with anger because his work had been 
 liberally extracted from and Mr. S. was pilloried for it in 
 future editions of the Manual. The pages contain a splendid 
 defence of Mr. Hudson from a Stock Exchange point of view. He 
 refers to the panic caused by the Times article [which he wrote], 
 deplored the fearful recent increase in the liabilities of the chief 
 companies, and finally consoles himself by acquainting the public that 
 he continues to buy shares. 
 
 Spackman, W. F. A Review of the Railway Interest. 
 54 pp. 8 sewn 2I/ 1849 
 
 Value of Guaranteed Railway Stock. 
 
 1849 31 /IfcR. JOHN WHITEHEAD (of the STOCK EXCHANGE and 
 Author of some noted letters to Mr. GLYN) here claims 
 Guaranteed RAILWAY STOCK TO BE BETTER THAN 
 GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, and deals with 81 railway 
 companies and their shares. 
 
 Whitehead, John. Railway and Government Guaran- 
 tee, 6th ed. 56pp. 8 s/ 1849 
 What the New Rating Meant. 
 
 1849 32 "3LORD DEN'MAN'S decision on Rating will lessen the 
 BRIGHTON Co.'s Dividend y 2 per cent, and the value of 
 the Line ^460,000," said Mr. LAING. " Railways are 
 beneficial ; why should they be the only traders to have 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
History of the System continued, 
 their profits rated ? " 
 Laing, Samuel. Railway Taxation. 23pp. 8 5/6 1849 
 
 TRICKS ON SHAREHOLDERS. 
 
 1849 33 H SPICY, SMART LITTLE expose of the tricks of railway 
 
 company promoters and of the artful wiles of Directors to 
 prevent a clear understanding as to a company's transac- 
 tions and position was published by "An Edinboro'. 
 Reviewer" in 1849 the year of the HUDSON CRISIS. It 
 contains references to the'WATERFORD and DUBLIN, the 
 EASTERN COUNTIES, SOUTH WALES, and GREAT WESTERN 
 Cos., the treatment of CARRIERS, the famous railway 
 
 ROBBERIES, Curious BALANCE SHEETS, the SHARE REGISTER, 
 
 the old practice with all teading Cos. of illegally EXTENDING ' 
 
 LONG JOURNEYS INTO TWO DAYS (WITH A NIGHT AT 
 
 AN INN), etc., etc. 
 
 Railways and Shareholders. By " An Edinboro' 
 Reviewer." 2Opp. 8 sewn. 5/ 1849 
 
 MR. HUDSON and " The Yorkshireman.* 
 
 1850 34 The Yorkshireman rose against Mr. HUDSON week after 
 
 week even in the zenith of his awful power, and after his 
 fall his deadly opponent laid hold of his co-director Mr. 
 JAMES RICHARDSON and publicly degraded him. A LIBEL 
 CASE ensued in which Mr. HUDSON was subjected to a 
 severe cross-examination. The report of the case and 
 criticisms of Mr. HUDSON were then published with a 
 title-page worthy of a human bloodhound (I condense it : ) 
 Recent Trial for Libel. " Richardson v. Wodson." 
 27pp. roy 8 17/6 185 
 
 See under History of Companies York. Newcastle etc. infra. 
 
 AN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHER. 
 
 185O 35 GI-IKRE is HARDLY A WORK of Dr. LARDNER'S on railways 
 that should not be treasured. Here while apparently only an 
 enlargment on the ADVANTAGES of transport, on ANCIENT 
 ROADS, on the permanent way, the BOI.LING STOCK, 
 
 STATIONS, CLEARING HOUSE, TRAFFIC, PROFITS, 
 ACCIDENTS, TELEGRAPHS, and FOREIGN RAILWAYS with a 
 
 mingled air of FRANCIS, GALT, and FINDLAY, there is 
 throughout the work a profusion of quaint items of course 
 altogether foreign to these latter authors well exemplified in 
 his curious list of morals deducible from railway accidents, 
 e.g. Rule III. " IF A SECOND CLASS CARRIAGE has no door 
 passengers should not put out their legs," and Rule VII. 
 " EXPRESS TRAINS are MORE DANGEROUS than ORDINARY 
 TRAINS . . only use them when grezt speed is required, 
 while Rule X. warns one against JUMPING OUT OF THE 
 
 TRAIN AFTER A HAT OR PARCEL ! 
 
 Lardner, Dr. Railway Economy. 5 28 PP- English 
 Edition ; or 442 pp. American Edition. 10/6 1850 
 Romance of the Stock Exchange. 
 185O 36 " B volume at once the MOST INTERESTING and THE MOST 
 
 TERRIBLE IN MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE." "Wholesale 
 
 jobbing, gambling, fraud, even by peers and legislators." 
 
II 
 
 History of the System continued. 
 
 " The GRANDEES of the MONEY MARKET SKETCHED " 
 
 " \Vho would conceive that the STOCK EXCHANGE would 
 furnish such amusing and delightful descriptions'" Such 
 are among the criticisms of the work below. But the 
 characters are not only of the STOCK EXCHANGE for there 
 is no more vivid picture shown than that of GRAY, "THE 
 RAILWAY PIONEER, who, despite his acknowledged 
 enterprise, dies steeped in poverty, and whose name no one 
 has done mere than Mr. FRANCIS to rescue from oblivion. 
 Francis, John. Chronicles and Characters of the 
 Stock Exchange. 386 pp. d8 cloth. i5/ 1850 
 
 Francis. History of the English Railways. 
 
 1851 37 /IftR. FRANCIS' splendid work is the only one which claims to 
 
 be a HISTORY OF ENGLISH RAILWAYS. The very fact 
 tnat he was so accomplished a writer and wrote of his 
 subject in such a masterly style seems to have deterred 
 others from following up the thread of railway history 
 where he left it in 1850. He deals with all the LEADING 
 
 EVENTS, the LEADING MEN, the COMPANIES, OLD 
 RAILWAYS, THE TELEGRAPH, the ATMOSPHERIC SYSTEM, 
 
 the GAUGES, etc., etc. It seems a great pity that the book 
 is so very scarce. 
 
 Francis, John. A History of the English Railway ; 
 its Social Relations and Revelations, 1820-45. 2 vols. 
 d8 cloth, so/ 1851 
 
 SUPERANNUATION. 
 
 1852 38 {HE pages below deal with the EARLIEST ATTEMPTS at 
 
 RAILWAY SUPERANNUATION, and the efforts of Mr. 
 MORISON of the Clearing House, Mr. LAING and others 
 with suggestions for a GEN. RY. Assoc. 
 Brydges, C. J. The General Railway Association, 
 Ry. Superannuation, etc, 16 pp. 8 7/6 1852 
 
 RAILWAYS IN 1853. 
 
 1853 39 H peep at the railway system of 1853 is afforded by the 
 
 following in Mr. Brown's papers below : 
 
 "Why should a Flemish boor travel better and cheai>er thau ail English tradesman ? 
 Many lines have gone back to Hog Pens and Wild Beast Cages. No one thinks now 
 of American Carriages. Amalgamation only means Monopoly. 
 
 Brown, Humphrey. Railway Accidents, Amalgamation 
 and Management. 45 pp, 8 10/6 1853 
 
 THE FIFTH BLUE BOOK. 
 
 1853 39a " EXCITED alternately the hopes and fears of proprietors 
 and companies. It was a long and able report . . went 
 into the subject of rating . . . considered conditions 
 attached to existing companies . . . supervision 
 government should exercise . . . and the vexed question of 
 facilities for the third-class paseengers . . . the railway interests 
 joined their forces against it." (vide Francis II. 97). 
 
 Commons Select Committee on Railway and Canal 
 Bills. 5th Report. 261 pp. 2i/ 1853 
 
 Railway Mania Railway "Cookery." 
 1855 40 " 3foR an ADMIRABLE AND TELLING " SHOW-UP " of the 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
History of the System continued. 
 
 way in which RAILWAY "COOKERY" was carried 
 [DURING THE RAILWAY MANIA], and if the reader wishes 
 to understand their general working and tendency I would 
 refer him to a clever and ably written work, No. 89 of the 
 Traveller s Library^ published in 1855, entitled " Railway 
 Morals and Railway Policy " YOUNG "Steam on Common 
 Roads " p. 72. 
 
 Spencer, Herbert. Railway Morals and Railway 
 Policy (with Baines' Visit to the Vaudois of Piedmont 
 bound therewith). 12 cloth. 10/6 1855 
 
 THE STEAM ENGINE POET. 
 
 1857 41 ZHE ONLY POET I know dealing with the subject of STEAM 
 ENGINES and mentioning their PARTICULAR CHARACTER- 
 ISTICS is Mr. T. BAKER. I believe this gentleman 
 was an engineer and an inventor of a SYSTEM of LAYING 
 OUT CURVES. Now and then he gets up considerable 
 *' poetic steam," and if he is a little too serious, and cannot 
 always get easily round his corners, he is much too good to 
 be left unhonoured and unquoted. 
 
 Baker, T. The Steam Engine. A Poem. 260 pp. 
 p8 cloth. 15; 1857 
 
 AGEING OF SEASON TICKET HOLDERS. 
 
 1862 42 IRAILWAY TRAVELLING must have been considered some- 
 what dangerous even in 1862 for in that year The Lancet 
 published a little work which among other odd discoveries 
 found " RAPID AGEING "came over " SEASON TICKET 
 HOLDERS " and surmised that a recent fall in their numbers 
 was due to a recognition of that fact ! 
 Influence of Railway Travelling on Public Health. 
 From The Lancet. I52pp. *8 10/6 [1862] 
 
 A GREAT REFORMER. GALT, 
 
 1865 43 3fOR a THOROUGH UNDERSTANDING of the FINANCIAL 
 HISTORY of the RAILWAY SYSTEM, of the LEADING 
 COMPANIES, of the objects of the DIFFERENT PARLIAMENTARY 
 ACTS, of the HISTORY of the REFORM MOVEMENT, &r. 
 
 GALT is perhaps the leading authority. A BRIEF BUT 
 BRILLIANT SKETCH of general railway history including a 
 description of the work of THOS. GRAY and a resume of 
 the FAMOUS QUARTERLY REVIEW ARTICLE is appended. 
 The following table is illustrative of his advocacy of reduced 
 fares. 
 
 Table showing Result to the Co.s of the great Contests in 1852-3, 1854, 
 and 1857, from REDUCTION of FARES as under : 
 
 Loss in 
 Original Reduced Dividends 
 
 Fares. Miles 
 Ret. Tickets. 
 
 Fares. per cent 
 Rer. Tickets, per annum. 
 
 6o/- 
 
 4% 
 
 3 3o L. & N. W. R. 
 
 7/6 
 
 5/- - 
 
 IO/-I 
 
 6o/- 
 
 4 o/- 
 
 
 
 410 Gt. Northern 
 
 7/6 
 
 if- 
 
 
 
 I0/- 
 
 I0/- 
 
 7/6 
 
 
 
 134 So. Eastern 
 
 3/' 
 
 2/- 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 8- 
 
 6/- 
 
 4/' 
 
 46 ; Edin. & Glas. 
 
 i/- 
 
 od. 
 
 6d. 
 
 20/- ! 
 
 8/- 
 
 61- 
 
 4/~ i; 55 '' Caledonian 
 
 T/- 9d' 
 
 6d, ! io/- 
 
 Gait, Wm. Railway Reform. 405pp. d8 2i/ 1865 
 
13 
 
 History of the System continued. 
 
 THE RAILWAY SYSTEM 3O YEARS AGO. 
 
 1865 44 ^THE neat little popular account of the British Railway 
 
 System by Wm. CHAMBERS includes a sketch of the 
 
 romantic rise of the EAST KENT now the LONDON 
 
 CHATHAM AND DOVER, and notes on recent operations of 
 
 ATMOSPHERIC SYSTEM and Oil CHEAP RAILWAYS. 
 
 Chambers, Wm. About Railways. I03pp. 12 3/6 1865 
 
 The following series of PAMPHLETS will form an interesting 
 
 connecting link between the days oj the Forties^ and the present. 
 
 1868 45 J&. RYDE, Rating of Rys. (32pp.) 1868 ; F. T. 
 
 TO HAGGARD, A Mile of Railway , 1869 ; F. T. HAGGARD, 
 
 I87O Railway Facts and Lower Fares [opposing cheap fares] 
 
 3ipp. 1866; H. L. MORGAN, Accounts and Audits 
 
 (Explanatory of the Regulation of Rys. Act to help 
 
 Shareholders against "cooked" accounts] 35pp. 1869; 
 
 A. J. WILLIAMS, Appropriation of Rys. by the State 
 
 [Popular account of its advantages] i4Opp. 1870 ; J. T. 
 
 HARRISON, Railway Income and Expenditure ivith tables, 
 
 8ipp. 1870 ; R. P. WILLIAMS on RY. ROLLING STO K 
 
 with tables, 82pp. 1870; and others. Scarce Collect, hf.cf. I5/ 
 
 THE COMIC; MAN. 
 
 I87O 45a ^ R - Rossendale of Oswestry has written for a Reading, "a Sketch of Mr. 
 Judkins, Ex-Mayor of York, his first journey, his Railway Walk," etc. 
 
 Mr. Julep Judkins First Journey Jby Rail. 17 pp. limp 
 
 cloth. 2/6 Birm. 1870 
 
 MANAGEMENT. 
 1872 46 !H believer in the State PURCHASE of RAILWAYS, or, failing 
 
 that, a GENERAL AMALGAMATION writes 
 
 Benson, B. Amalgamation of Ry. Co.s. 30pp. 8 
 wr. 2/6 1872 
 
 AMALGAMATION. 
 1872 46a ^BELOW is the 
 
 Lords and Commons Select Committees' Reports on 
 Amalgamation (with proceedings). 1027 pp. io/ 1872 
 
 STEPHENSON. 
 
 1881 47 ^BELOW is a copy of the Official Report of THE STEPHENSON 
 CENTENARY. It includes much historical matter and a 
 
 VIEW OF THE HOUSE and EVEN of THE VERY ROOM in which 
 
 GEORGE STEPHENSON was born. 
 
 Stephenson Centenary. Official Report. With 
 
 illustrations. n8pp. d8 3/6 1881 
 
 RATES. 
 
 1884 48 /IfoR. POPE (a barrister) here says that RAILWAYS would 
 give satisfaction if it were not for RADICALS. 
 Pope, J. B. Railway Rates and Radical Rule. 
 364pp. p8 2/6 1884 
 
 STATE PURCHASE. 
 
 1887 49 ^HE following work will well serve to take the {question of 
 STATE PURCHASE of RAILWAYS up to 1887 on the side 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
14 
 
 History of the System continued. 
 
 of its advocates. 
 
 Chas. Waring. State Purchase of Railways. 2O4pp. 
 
 d8cl. 4/6 ' 1887 
 
 A RAILWAY NOVELETTE. 
 
 1389 49a IRox the least of the curiosities of our railways is a little 
 modern railway novelette entitled Queer Scenes of Railway 
 Life. I have not read it but taking a chapter on " Navvies 
 and their Wives" I find therein a navvy's letter commencing:- 
 < Sir You calls yourself a salesman offish, but let me tell you you're 
 no gentleman, and would rob a dying widow of her eyebrows to help 
 to fill your old hair mattress, but plank bed is what you ought to 
 have * * * *" From which quotation I submit that he who could 
 think of this mode of making a mattress is of a sufficiently original turn 
 of mind to conjure up many other appaling scenes of "railway life. ^ 
 
 Newman, John. Queer Scenes of Railway Life. 
 I24pp. 12 wr. I/ l88 9 
 
 TRANSPORT. 
 
 I89O 50 ffoR a French work on CONVEYANCE RATES and FARES 
 there is : 
 
 Transports et Tarifs (Inch I26pp. on Transports et 1 arils 
 par Chemins de fer). 478pp- d8 wr. as new. 2/6 
 
 Rothschild 1890 
 
 J)t0t0rj) of the Construction 
 of JUUtoragB: 
 
 The First Railway Waggons. 
 
 1649 51 "1RAILWAYS," says CHAMBERS, "are AN INVENTION of 
 (Reprint) the COAL CARRIERS of NORTHUMBERLAND," and from the 
 book below, published the year of the death of Charles I. 
 (1649) NICHOLAS WOOD considers that a South Country 
 man named BEAUMONT introduced WAGGONS there (which 
 he says ran on tramways) as well as many wonderful 
 engines. But like almost everybody who engaged in the 
 local coal and other trades in those days he lost his money 
 and got ruined. The following exceedingly quaint little 
 booklette tells the tale, which should be read with WOOD S 
 remarks. 
 
 Chorographia, or a Survey of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 
 Scarce Reprint of the rare original. p8 u wrappers. 
 42/ Newcastle 1649 reprinted circa 1818 
 
 First Mention of "Speed" on Railways. 
 18O7 52 (THE EARLIEST PUBLIC PREDICTION ot the possibility of 
 
 QUICK TRAVELLING ON PUBLIC RAILWAYS was made (as 
 
 Day points out in his little work on Railways) in 1807, by 
 that great modern philosopher, Dr. THOS. YOUNG, who in 
 his iamous work NATURAL PHILOSOPHY speaks as follows : 
 4 It is possible that ROADS PAVED WITH IRON MAY HERE- 
 AFTER BE EMPLOYED FOR THE PURPOSE of EXPEDITIOUS 
 TRAVELLING, since there is scarcely any resistance to be 
 
History of the Construction continued. 
 
 overcome, except that of the air ; and such roads would 
 
 ALLOW the VELOCITY to be INCREASED ALMOST WITHOUT 
 
 LIMIT." No one before Dr. Young had connected the idea 
 of speed with that of railways. [The series of Lectures in 
 which this famous prediction occurs form to this day the 
 BEST EXISTING COMPENDIUM of the elementary PRINCIPLES 
 of PHYSICS. It is free from technical symbols, but its 
 precision, accuracy, and completeness are acknowledged as 
 marvellous, and are combined with almost unparalleled 
 brevity and clearness. It was far in advance of its time. 
 The edition below is also largely prized for the beauty and 
 accuracy of its illustrations of the principles of LIGHT.] 
 Young, Thos., M.D. A Course of Lectures on 
 Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts. 2 vols. 
 4tO, with coloured and plain plates. 42/ 1807 
 
 THE FIRST RECORDED RAILWAYS. 
 
 1819 54 " ZlHE earliest approximation to the modern railway was 
 the wooden tramroad " and the first man who is recorded 
 as having seen one was LORD KEEPER NORTH (Lord 
 Guildford). His brother in a biography " more amusing 
 and instructive to the reader than honourable to the subject 
 of it " says that at NEWCASTLE ON TYNE in 1676 among 
 the curiosities of the place were ''WAY LEAVES" or 
 
 GROUND LET FOR LAYING WOODEN TRAMWAYS ON. (A 
 
 description of these will be found in Vol. I. p. 265 of the 
 
 work below.) 
 
 Roger North's Life of Lord Keeper North. 2 vols. 
 
 d8 boards. 3O/ 1819 
 
 PALMER'S SUSPENSION RAILWAY. 
 
 1824 55 /IfcR. H. R. PALMER'S famous old plan for a SUSPENSION 
 
 RAILWAY met with a good reception at the hands of Mr. 
 
 TREDGOLD in his work on RAILROADS in 1825. According 
 
 to LUKE HEBERT (p. 428) Mr. Palmer's plan was put into 
 
 actual operation at Cheshunt, Herts. 
 
 Palmer's Description of a Railway, with plates. 
 
 X5/ 
 
 NICHOLAS WOOD. 
 
 1825 56 JIVE YEARS before the Liverpool Contest GEORGE 
 
 STEPHENSON'S early "learned friend" wrote one of the 
 first books on railways. The subsequently great railway 
 authority in his FIRST EDITION after speaking of early ways 
 of transport, gave a HISTORY OF RAILWAYS, telling of 
 ' MASTER BEAUMONT," of COLFBROKE DALE, of CARR, 
 of BARNS, and of the PUBLIC RAILWAYS of JESSOP (1789) 
 and of OUTRAM (1800). He shows us some preferences 
 for CAST IRON KAILS, had not seen a BLENKINSOPP Loco., 
 dislikes CHAPMAN'S, calls BRUNTON'S TRAVELLER 
 ingenious, refers to friendly talk with HEDLEY, credits 
 BLACKETT for SMOOTH WHEELS, fully describes GEORGE 
 STETHENSON'S Locos, estimates their speed at 6 MILES AN 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Strtet, Birmingham. 
 
 8 
 
i6 
 History of the Construction continued. 
 
 HOUR and has no "ridiculous expectations " of 12, ascribes 
 the STEAM BLAST to SrEPHENSON, and thinks the danger of 
 HIGH PRESSURE could be got over by enlarging the 
 * ape+t^lres between the boiler and the cylinder" 
 Wood, Nicholas. Railroads. 314 pp. and plates 
 showing Rails, Stephenson's Loco with Steam 
 Springs, and " Puffing Billy." 2i/ 1825 
 
 TREDGOLD. 
 
 1825 57 TREDGOLD went over much the same ground as WOOD, but 
 he much disliked HIGH PRESSURE ENGINES. He gave a 
 critical account of EXISTING " railways," showed PLATE 
 RAILS (upon which carts could run) succeeded the OLD 
 WOODEN EDGE RAILS (sometimes iron covered) said 
 GRIEVE of Edinb. invented MALLEABLE IRON EDGE 
 RAILS (those now used being about 3 feet long), and 
 described the STOCKTON and DARLINGTON Line, 
 PALMER'S RAILWAY, and BROWN'S GAS ENGINE, refers to 
 the failure of PUBLIC LINES, said that *' LOCOMOTIVES 
 
 MUST ALWAYS BE OBJECTIONABLE ON A PUBLIC RAILWAY," 
 
 that STATIONARY POWER was better, but suggested a 
 LIGHT MANUMOTIVE EXPRESS TRAIN for " letters and 
 messengers " TO GO AT TEN MILES AN HOUR ! And he 
 gave his Formula for an engine's maximum useful eftect etc. 
 Tredgold, Thos. Railroads and Carriages. 184 pp. 
 with plates showing wagons, rails, wheels, and loco 
 with steam springs. 2i/ 1825 
 
 SCOTSMAN ARTICLES. 
 
 1825 58 "3-T is much to the credit of the Scotsman" says the Globe 
 Encyclopedia* " that it was the first newspaper in the 
 kingdom to give railways hearty support, a series ; of 
 remarkable and far-seeing papers appearing in its columns 
 in 1825 from the pen oi the Editor, Mr. CHARLES 
 MACLAREN, full of confident anticipation." Below is a 
 neat little epitome of those articles made by their author 
 in 1825. 
 Epitome of " Scotsman " Articles, p. 8 42; 1825 
 
 WOODS SECOND EDITION. 
 
 1832 59 ^BETWEEN the dates of the FIRST and SECOND EDITIONS of 
 
 WOOD'S Treatise locomotives had passed from the stage of 
 doubtful, to that of unquestioned, utility. The great trial of 
 Locomotives, the celebrated LIVERPOOL CONTEST had 
 taken place and Mr. Wood himself had been one of the 
 judges. In the edition below he alters his pages to suit the 
 altered times and of course fully describes the CONTEST. 
 Wood, Nicholas. Prac. Treatise on Railroads. 2nd. 
 Ed. ssopp. is/ 1832 
 
 THE UNDULATING RAILWAY. 
 
 1833 60 ^BADNALL'S famous proposed Undulating Railway (well 
 
 described by Hebert) was explained in his Treatise on 
 Railway Improvements, and at the end there is some 
 correspondence having more than ordinary interest as 
 
"7 
 
 History of the Construction continued. 
 
 being from Mr. Robert Stephenson SENIOR, dated 
 Pendleton Colliery, 1832, from which it appears that 
 GEORGE STEPHENSON'S BROTH ER was inclined to support 
 this principle (see also Ry. Times, 29 February, 1840). 
 Badnall, Richard. Treatise on Railway Improvements 
 142 pp. d8 cloth. 3o/ 1833 
 
 THE EARLIEST WORKING BOOKS. 
 
 1833 61-4 fiMONQ working books giving Tables and Formulae FROM 
 TO the EARLIEST DAYS . are Sir John MACNEILL'S 
 
 1839 EARTHWORK TABLES (THE FIRST OF THE KIND) dedicated 
 to the genial Telford and dated 1833 > Mr - G. R. BOOTH'S 
 in 1836 on the STRENGTH and APPLICATION of MATERIALS 
 (especially Witty's) for Bridges, Railways, etc. ; in 1839 "he 
 much appreciated DAY biings out from SUNDERLAND his 
 Railway Calculutor giving EARTHWORK TABLES ; in 1838 
 Mr. E. E. PEP KINS gives Tables for CALCULATING WAGES 
 by the Day or Hour and shows (by the word " Railway " 
 being first in the title) that RAILWAYS WERE THEN GIVING 
 
 CONSIDERABLE EMPLOYMENT. 
 
 Macneill's Tables. 254 pp. 8 5/6 1633 
 
 Booth's Treatise. 35 pp. 8 wrappers. 5/6 1836 
 
 Day's Calculator, p 8 5/6 1839 
 
 Perkins' Wages Tables. p8 5/6 1838 
 
 TREDGOUX THE SECOND EDITION. 
 1835 65 ^TREDGOLD'S work appeared as a second edition in 1835 
 ten years after the first without any alteration. The Liverpool 
 contest had taken place, and on the Liverpool Railway 
 trains ran easily at fifteen miles an hour but no reference 
 was made to this amazing progress. It seems however that 
 the victory of the *' Rocket" was synchronous with 
 TREDPOLD'S DEATH and that the edition arose from an 
 increased public demand for any good book which described 
 the railways. 
 
 Tredgpld, Thos. On Railroads and Steam Carriages. 
 2nd edition, 8 2i/ 1835 
 
 PETER BARLOW. 
 
 1837 66 JpETER BARLOW, one of the great men of the old railway 
 
 world, did away with FISH-BELLIED RAILS. The present 
 work includes THE HISTORIC REPORT to the LONDON and 
 BIRMINGHAM and observations on the POWER OF 
 LOCOMOTIVES with PAMBOUR's work epitomised and his 
 Table of GRADIENT EFFECTS. 
 Barlow, Peter. Strength of Materials. d8 10/6 1837 
 
 EARLY AMERICAN RAILWAY SYSTEM. 
 
 1838 67 AMERICAN ENGINEERING WORKS were in 1838 attracting 
 
 so much attention that DAVID STEVENSON of EDINBURGH, 
 failing to find satisfactory information regarding them 
 proceeded to CANADA and the STATES to see for himself, 
 subsequently publishing his descriptions of the Harbours, 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
i8 
 
 Histoiy of the Construction continued. 
 
 Navigation, Canals, Bridges, Railways etc. He refers to 
 the QUINCEY ROAD, and others of date, illustrates the 
 various rails then in use, notes the cheap construction, says 
 that locomotives (LIMITED IN STATE RAILWAYS to 15 
 MILES PER HOUR speed) were in much more general use 
 than horses for traction, that Messrs. BALDWIN, MORRIS, 
 LONG, GRANT and EASTRICK, at PHILADELPHIA and 
 LOWELL ENGINE Works at Lowell were then the largest 
 of the locomotive works. DESCRIBES SOME BOGIE 
 LOCOMOTIVES and shows a curious one for anthracite coal 
 made by Gi LUNG HAM and WINANS at BALTIMORE with 
 vertical cylinders and VERTICAL TUBULAR BOILER. This 
 must have been THE FIRST WORK PUBLISHED in ENGLAND 
 
 DESCRIBING BOGIE-WHEELED LOCOMOTIVES. 
 
 Stephenson, David. Sketch of Civil Engineering of 
 North America, etc. With map showing routes of 
 principal canals and railways, illustrations of early 
 river steamers etc. d8 cl. 12/6 1838 
 
 WOOD'S THIRD EDITION. 
 
 1838 68 3Qy the time of his THIRD EDITION the Great Trunk lines 
 had been partially opened from LONDON to LIVERPOOL, 
 and to SOUTHAMPTON and from NEWCASTLE to CARLISLE, 
 PAMBOUR had published his famous work, BRUNEL had 
 commenced the Broad Guaged Great Western and Wood 
 responded to the anxiety of the public for the latest 
 authoritative opinion on the progress which had been made. 
 Wood. Nicholas. Prac. Treatise on Railroads. 
 3rd Ed, 76opp. and 13 folding plates. dS cl. 10/6 1838 
 
 THE EARLY BRIDGES. 
 
 183 S 69 {HE FIRST IMPORTANT WORK dealing with THE FINE 
 BRIDGES which began to appear with the growing passenger 
 railways was that of S. C. BREES on RAILWAY PRACTICE. 
 It was compiled from specifications and plans furnished or 
 at least revised by the great engineers STEPHENSON, LOCKE, 
 RKNNIE, VIGNOLES, WALKER and others. ITS GRAND 
 SKKIES oi PLATES as the author says are made to RESEMBLE 
 ACTUAL DRAWINGS and the tinted plates can hardly be 
 distinguished from them. They are however accurate 
 working drawings, but with nothing " of the severe dryness, 
 extreme intricacy, and general uninteresting appearance of 
 ordinary plans. And the grandest bridges of the OLD 
 RAILWAY ENGINEERS on the earliest lines in the country 
 have been recorded in these volumes in a manner worthy of 
 them. There are also further PLATES OF DESIGNS, and short 
 crisp remarks are added in description of the plates, and 
 these are followed further on by useful details of construction. 
 Brees' Railway Practice. The First Series, with 
 eighty fine coloured plates, thirty-six pages of short 
 descriptions, and one hundred and six pages of 
 details of construction, 4, cloth. i5/ 1838 
 
 The First, Second, and Third Series. [The Second 
 Series (1847) being also chiefly devoted to Bridges, 
 
19 
 
 History of the Construction continued. 
 
 but introduces two of Rennie's Locomotives and the 
 Third Series (1847) a translation from Perdonnet 
 Portefeuille de I Ingenier aes Chemins de Per, dealing 
 with the rails, chairs, turntables and machinery of 
 construction, with some plans of Stations and Engine 
 Houses, etc. 
 
 Together with the Appendix to Railway Practice 
 (giving the Parliamentary evidence dealing with 
 Construction, and a Glossary and Index to the terms 
 used.) 373 pp. 1839. Altogether 4 vols. 2 2/ 1838-47 
 A Magnificent Work on Early Construction. 
 
 838 7 H very handsome and substantial record of our early railways 
 is contained in a volume by Mr. F. W. SIMMS, C.E., on 
 THE PUBLIC WORKS OF GREAT BRITAIN. The elaborate 
 entrance to the Primiose Hill Tunnel, then in course of 
 erection on the LONDON and BIRMINGHAM Ry., forms the 
 frontispiece ; on the title-page is a view of Old Watford 
 Station, and this is followed by no less than EIGHTY-THREE 
 FULL-PAGE PLATES, each in itself a study, showing the 
 buildings and cuttings and other works on the LONDON 
 and BIRMINGHAM ; GREAT WESTERN ; SOUTHAMPTON ; 
 GREENWICH ; CROYDON ; BIRM. BRIS. and THAMES 
 JUNC. ; and the GLASGOW and GARNKIRK RAILWAYS, as 
 well as the two celebrated LOCOMOTIVES Hawthorne's 
 " COMET " the first ever used on the NEWCASTLE and 
 CARLISLE Railway (which passed GEORGE STEPHENSON'S 
 birthplace) and the "HARVEY COMBE" probably the 
 first railway locomotive to enter LONDON. The shapes of 
 rails used in the early lines are shown according to thirteen 
 different companies, while examples of various great works 
 make up the 150 fine plates which together with their 
 descriptions form the first colossal monument of the railway 
 era of British engineering. 
 
 Simms, F. W. Public Works of Great Britain. 
 First or Second Edition (both alike). Roy. fol. cl. zzl 
 
 1838 
 Robt. Stephenson s own copy o-f Longridge. 
 
 838 71 JN the little work below, by Robt. Stephenson's great 
 friend, with a frontispiece showing BEDLINGTON IRON 
 WORKS (near Morpeth) where the celebrated FISH 
 BELLIED RAILS were made, there are a series of papers 
 including remarks on the then new MALLEABLE RAILS, the 
 angry correspondence between BIRKENSHAW and CHAP- 
 MAN, interesting letters from Mr. JESSOP, from Mr. 
 BUCHANAN of the LANARKSHIRE Rys., an account of the 
 opening and a description of the STOCKTON and DARLING- 
 TON Railway (i8pp.) ; description of the LIVERPOOL 
 CONTEST (ijpp.); a view of LONGRIDGE'S LOCOMOTIVE 
 "BEDLINGTON," etc., etc. 
 
 Longridge, M. Remarks on Malleable Railways, 
 Account of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
. 20 
 History of the Construction continued. 
 
 etc. About nopp. 8 Robert Stephenson's owi 
 copy. ;22/ , Newcastle 183, 
 
 THE FIRST HISTORY OF RAILWAYS. . 
 
 1839 73 21BOUT 1839 M? GILBERT made a map showing th- 
 railways, and the -author of a publication on the Zoologies 
 Gardens" wrote a capital little history of railways t. 
 illustrate the map. Starting with an historical sketch o 
 Encrlish commerce the author traced railways from the day 
 when tramways first took 42 cwt. as easily as a horse an, 
 cart took 17 cwt., passed on to the career of blear 
 Engines, to rotary motion, and steam vessels on to t 
 of TREVITHICK and CHAT Moss. Taking noteworth 
 works on most ot the early lines, and the LIVKRPOO 
 CONTEST, and the financial report ot the L. & M., ti 
 ended with a List of Railways, etc. Of the FAMOU 
 EARLY PROPOSED LINES the map showed the three Wels 
 routes, the Central, and North, Kent, the " Northern an 
 Eastern" extension to York, lines thr ough the centres c 
 Dorset to Bath, of Surrey to Arundel, of Northumberlai 
 towards Edin. ; another through Alnwick to Berwick, an 
 through Carlisle to Glasgow direct. Such is, I believe, tl 
 
 EARLIEST KNOWN HISTORY OF RAILWAYS. 
 
 Railways of England : containing an account of the 
 
 1839 
 
 grifatinfrt. ft the pa-es below he amplified the artic 
 inserting much belonging peculiarly to the period I in ^whi 
 he wrote. Its object was to shew men HOW TO START 
 RAILWAY. He gives the promoters an idea ot t 
 
 CONSTRUCTION and COST of PERMANENT WAY and ROLLIf 
 
 STOCK and HOW TO CHOOSE DIRECTORS, the directors he 
 to CHOOSE the STAFF, and even the POLICEMEN which w, 
 they should -walk and the SPECTACLED GUARDS how th 
 ouaht to sit atop the train. He speaks of all the EAR] 
 
 LOCOMOTIVES, the OPPOSITION, CONTEST, etc. . Ot t 
 
 G W R. as the most comfortable line, of a speed of 60 ran 
 
 an hour, advocates HYDRAULIC LOCKS to get over mclin 
 
 planes, and speaks of AMERICAN RAILWAYS so steep tr 
 
 sails are used on them. 
 
 Lecount, Lieut. Peter. Practical 
 
 Railways explaining their construction and manag 
 
 ment. 422pp. and plates. 10/6 
 
 THE BRIDGES AGAIN. 
 
 are affixed, the former being a very fine one. 
 Kann and Hoskin on Bridges. 4 vols in 3, dJ 
 
21 
 :ory of the Construction continued. 
 
 French Work on Railways. 
 
 9 74b 21 FEW years after Pambour's first work MM. Armengaud 
 published I74pp. describing locomotives, wagons, carriages, 
 rails, and an atlas showing the locomotives " LA 
 VICTORIEUSE" "LA SEINE" "LA JACKSpN" 
 
 "TAYLEUR" tenders, wheels, curtained open passenger carriages, 
 horsebox-like and another luggage van, a closed carriage, and with plates 
 showing sections, and others of appliances, also of rails etc. It will be 
 noticed from this fine work how elegant the French carriages were at 
 this early period. 
 
 Armengaud. L' Industrie des Chemins de fer. 
 4 and folio. 2 vols. 3 3/ Paris 1839 
 
 DAY. 2nd Edition. 
 
 9 74C S)AY treated the whole subject of the permanent way in a 
 practical, but remarkably lucid, style gave a capital little 
 history of rails, described the Clarence and Stanhope 
 railways, the gradients (with equalised planes) the hauling, 
 embanking, bridges and even fencing. 
 Day, Jas. Construction and Formation of Railways. 
 2iopp. 8 7/6 1839 
 
 KOLLMAN'S RAILWAY, 
 
 75 /IftR. KOLLMAN'S proposal for a NEW FORM of RAILWAY in 
 1836 drew from JOHN HERAPATH the remark that people 
 " forget that the chief property of railroads (viz) THE SMALL 
 
 AMOUNT OF FRICTION IS the PRINCIPAL REASON WHY WE 
 
 CANNOT ASCEND INCLINES." The remark will serve for 
 history now. The inventor in his description below says by 
 his plan he can (a) get round CURVES (b) keep his Engine on 
 the Rails (c) DO WITHOUT UNNECESSARY DEAD 
 WEIGHT (d) and can CLIMB INCLINES. Mr. Herapath 
 hoped something might come out of the proposal. 
 Observations on Railways and an Account of 
 Kollman's Method of Construction. i6pp. 8 10/6 
 
 Weale, 1839 
 
 CURIOSITIES OF LOCOMOTION. 
 
 9 76 JN a history illustrated by numerous woodcuts of famous 
 ancient and modern roads, bridges, carringes> etc. we get 50 
 pages on LOCOMOTIVES, STEAM CARRIAGES, the LIVERPOOL 
 and MANCHESTER RAILWAY (with its Stations, Engine Men, 
 Signals and Tunnels), notes on the G.W. R. (now making) 
 the BRIGHTON and Greenwich lines (with nice woodcuts) 
 mention of locomotion by an expanding liquid (with a 
 suggestion of Davy's) and even ot "ELECTRO-MAGNETIC 
 
 RAILWAYS. 
 
 Roads and Railroads. 34Opp. p8 10/6 Parker 1839 
 
 THE FIRST LAWS OF EARTHWORKS. 
 
 77 PROBABLY THK FIRST WORK EVER WRITTEN on the 
 PRINCIPLES of RAILWAY EXCAVATIONS and Embankments 
 was written by "A Resident Assistant Engineer" [on the 
 BIRM. and GLOUCESTER RAILWAY]. He dedicates his 
 work to the famous Capt. Morrson, points out that Scientific 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
22 
 History of the Construction continued. 
 
 Men are mystified and Contractors quite " at sea" in makin 
 their estimates from ignorance of principles of the subjec' 
 and gives the result of his experiments, with diagram < 
 Bredon Cutting etc. 
 
 Excavations and Embankments (Laws of). By 
 Resident Assistant Engineer. d8 7/6 184 
 
 THE LICKEY INCLINE." 
 
 The Working Books of 3O to 5O years ago. 
 
 1841 78-86a /|&R. R. C. MAY after reading his paper at the Inst. ( 
 TO Civil Engineers published some of the FIRST TABLES f< 
 
 1865 setting out railway CURVES in 1841 ; Mr. John QUESTED 
 attempts in 1846 to SIMPLIFY the MOST APPROVED METHOT 
 of SURVEYING and LEVELLING ; the same year Mr. J. ] 
 HUNTINGDON offered an EASIER WAY of CALCULATION 
 EARTHWORK QUANTITIES (with tables for Bases, Land ar 
 Slope Areas, tables for calculating CURVES and GRADIENTS 
 Wm. KELLY in 1847 produced Tables TO SAVE TROUBI 
 in CALCULATION in so many Prismoids for a long line 
 road ; Mr. T. BAKER (dedicating his work to Peter Barlo\ 
 claims to be A PIONEER RAILWAY SURVEYOR, writes c 
 THEORY and for PRACTICE and CRITICISES OTHE 
 AUTHORITIES. Then from the renowned PENNSYLVANJ 
 comes Mr. MUFFLIN'S little work on CURVES and TANGEN' 
 DISPENSING WITH TABLES or tabular statements, and easi 
 remembered. The very presence of this book here is A 
 
 HONOURABLE MEMENTO. In 1865 Mr. CUNNINGHA 
 Supplied THE FIRST COMPLETE SET of EARTHWORK TABL1 
 
 to which he added a table for speedy measurement I 
 meansof transparent paper or horn ; Mr. JAMES HENDERSC 
 in his tables gave A NEW FORMULA FOR THE SIDES 
 Pyramidal Parts of Cuttings and a table for contents wh< 
 transverse section of original surface has regular or irregul 
 inclinations. 
 
 May on Curves, 18 5/ 
 Quested on Surveying. 73pp. plates, d8 5/ 
 Quested on Railway Surveying & Levelling. d8 5/18. 
 Huntingdon's Tables and Rules. p8 $/ 18. 
 
 Kelly, Wm. Tables for Earthworks, with fi 
 explanations. d8 5/ *& 
 
 Baker, T. (The Poet). Railway Engineering or Fie 
 Work preparatory to construction, with tables a* 
 formulae. d8 10/6 18 
 
 Mufflin, S. W. Railway Curves and Tangents, p 
 fy Philadelphia 18: 
 
23 
 
 istory of the Construction continued. 
 
 Cunningham, David. Earthwork Tables. loopp. 
 roya!8 5/ 1865 
 
 Henderson's Tables for Cuttings. 8 5/ Glasgow [1852] 
 rength of Materials and a Memento of T red go Id. 
 
 142 87 F THE WRITERS of the FIRST TWO practical RAILWAY 
 
 BOOKS I mention elsewhere what became of Mr. NICHOLAS 
 WOOD and curiously enough this edition of the work of 
 the other pioneer author contains a NOTIFICATION of 
 HIS WORK and DEATH. THOMAS TREDGOLD died, it 
 seems, in poor circumstances, in 1829, and this is the 4th 
 edition of another of his successful books. Hodgkinson's 
 Experimental Re.searches (forming the second part of this 
 edition) is included. 
 
 Tredgold on the Strength of Materials. 4th edition. 
 2 vols. d8 10/6 Weale, 1842 
 
 THE FIRST TELEGRAPHS. 
 
 142 88 ZTHE Magnetic NEEDLE TELEGRAPH was patented by Cooke 
 and Wheatstone 12 June, 1827, and Mr. Cooke put up the 
 FIRST TELEGRAPH LINK, and the first successful one ever 
 made, on the GREAT WESTERN in 1838. In the following 
 pages he described, and illustrated, his principles after 
 experience on various lines. 
 Cooke, W. F. Telegraphic Railways. 39 pp. roy 8 
 
 2I/ 1842 
 
 CHEAPER RAILWAYS. 
 
 43 89 "TlttlbE SHOULD PUBLIC WORKS LAST FOR EVER? . . An 
 
 all important question not sufficiently weighed ; the reply is 
 somewhat startling it is pretty nearly this : IF A 
 
 STRUCTURE WILL ENDURE FOR TWENTY YEARS, it will be 
 CHEAPER IN THE END THAN a STRUCTURE WHICH WOULD 
 WOULD LAST FOR EVER, [but] COST DOUBLE of the first . . 
 
 The AMERICANS found this out long ago, and even here the 
 more shrewd of our capitalists have already begun to make 
 a similiar discovery." Such is a main contention of the 
 work below. 
 
 It illustrates Stephenson's proposed French lines, a U. and S. R. Loco, and full 
 descriptions <>f the Constructions on the Utica and Syracuse Road, with 
 isoinetrieal projections added to the geometrical elevations and sections usually 
 employed. The Belgian Lines of 1&42 described by Edward Dobson. including 
 particulars of Gradients, Curves, Gaxiges, Noted Inclines, description and speed of 
 Locomotives, cost of lines, capital, etc. The whole to show what has been done in 
 Belgium at 15,000, and in U.S.A. at 3,600, while British lines have cost 36,000 
 per mile. 
 
 Ensamples of Railway Making [taken from American 
 and Belgian Practice]. Roy 8 cl. 10/6 Weale, 1843 
 TUNNELLING. 
 
 44 91 NE of the earliest important monographs entering into this 
 subject was the following by SIMMS who goes into minute 
 details. 
 
 Simms, F. W. Practical Tunnelling (setting out the 
 works, Shaft Sinking, heading driving, ranging the 
 lines, levelling under ground, sub-excavating, 
 timbering, and brickwork with the labour required and 
 cost). 174 pp., 12 plates, 4 cloth. 7/6 1844 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
24 
 History of the Construction continued. 
 
 Rise of the Battle of the Gauges. 
 
 1845 92 /IftR. Samuel Sidney says that the FIRST POPULAR PAMPHL 
 
 to appear on the subject was the one by Mr. Harding belo 
 
 Harding, W. The Gauge Question Evils of Diversi 
 
 of Gauge and a Remedy. With a map, 8 bds. 10/6 18 
 
 GAUGES. EVILS. 
 
 1845 93 !H good practical little brochure giving reasons pro and L 
 
 and disadvantages for the BROAD GAUGE and MIX 
 GAUGES, in transhipment and with references to shifting t 
 truck bodies was published without author's name 
 Effingham Wilson. 
 
 Narrow and Wide Gauges Considered ; also Effe< 
 of Competition and Good Supervision. 36pp. 8 10/6 iS 
 THE SECOND HISTORY OF RAILWAYS. 
 
 1846 94 jfoR a highly interesting little historical sketch of t 
 
 permanent way, rails, chairs etc. as understood in 1846, 
 book will beat RITCHIE on Railways ; he devotes 2OOpp. 
 those subjects ; and gives is6pp. on EARLY ENGINES e 
 including 43pp. on ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAYS, 17 on 1 
 GAUGES, 5 on GRADIENTS and so on. 
 Ritchie, R. Railways, their Rise, Progress a 
 Construction. 444PP- with numerous illustratioi 
 12 cl. 6/6 i* 
 
 BORING. 
 
 1846 95 IbASKOLL's was the first separate work to deal with BORI 
 and to give a description of the TOOLS, characteristics 
 different SANDSTONES, GRANITE, CLAY etc. as well 
 Curves, Slopes, and Foundations. 
 Haskoll, W. D. Assistant Engineer's Railway Gui 
 in Boring. dS cl. 7/6 & 
 
 History of the Battle of the Gauges. 
 
 1846 96 HHE FIRST extensive work on the subject of the GAUG 
 was the book below by Mr. SIDNEY which gives us (i. 
 Mr. Wm. CUBITT'S opinion that EXCESS of GAUGE over 6- 
 means LOSS in DEAD WEIGHT ; Mr. HARDING'S staterm 
 that a good NARROW GAUGE ENGINE MOVED what a v* 
 
 powerful BROAD GAUGE ENGINE FAILED TO MOVE, tl 
 DEAD WEIGHT is 35% GREATER on the BROAD, ti 
 ATMOSPHERIC RESISTANCE was FAR GREATER for 1 
 
 broad ; Mr. ROBT. STEPHENSON'S statement that EXC] 
 in WIDTH is LOSS of PO\VER ; and also Mr. NlCHOL 
 WOOD'S amusing examination in which he allows himself 
 admit that " if a desperate man did want to go 100 miles 
 hour" he would be MORE LIKELY t ACCOMPLISH I 
 OBJECT on the BROAD THAN on the NARROW GUAGE. 
 Sidney, Sam. Gauge Evidence. The History of t 
 Railway System illustrated by the Evidence before t 
 Guage Commission. 4OOpp. sup roy 8 cl. 2i/ i* 
 Battle of the Guages and Brunei. 
 1846 97 IDiGiL twits Mr. BRUNEL for his contradictions o 
 connections with other lines, interchange of traffic, o- 
 
25 
 
 History of the Construction continued. 
 
 gradients and curves, big engines, carriages outside wheels, 
 and for his support of the ATMOSPHERIC SYSTEM ahiTMr?' 
 SAUNDERS for his opinions on COMPETITION. 
 Inconsistencies of Men of Genius exemplified in . . 
 I. K. Brunei Esq. and in . . C. A. Saunders, Secy. 
 G.W.R. By " Vigil." 30pp. 8 10/6 1846 
 
 DOUBLE GUAGE. 
 
 1346 98 HE following pages include a strong protest against the 
 DOUBLE GUAGE SYSTEM. 
 
 National Uniformity of Guage. Letter to Lord 
 Dalhousie preferring original Recommendations of 
 Guage Commissioners to recent Board of Trade 
 proposals. With map. i6pp. 10/6 Stephenson 1846 
 
 THE GAUGES. SPEED. 
 
 1846 99 ^HE following pages by Mr. MELVILLE compared the speed 
 on the G.W.R. with that on other lines and claimed that 
 the G.W.R. had no advantage. 
 
 Melville H. S. Narrow Guage speedier than Broad' 
 Guage Railways as well as cheaper, ispp. 8* 10/6 1846 
 
 The Broad Guage [expensive in making]. By L.S. D. 
 Vide G.W.R. under "History of Co.s." 
 DEMPSEY. 
 
 1846 loo J N 1846 G. Drysdale Dempsey issues a good general 
 work of 135 large pages with 27 plates about 4Opp. dealing 
 with the GENERAL SHAPE of the line as to Curves, Gradients,. 
 Gauge and Slopes. 22pp. on the EARTHWORKS, 5opp. on 
 the BRIDGES and other Buildings, and 2Opp. on the RAILS, 
 Chains, Sleepers, etc. as below : 
 
 Dempsey, G. D. Papers on Railways. 4 wrappers. 7/6 
 
 1846 
 AN AMERICAN'S OPINIONS. 
 
 1848 101 3f ROM New York we see that CURVES in 1848 were thought 
 an evil but that " GRADES '' were more manageable, that 
 ATMOSPHERIC RESISTANCE was seen to be enormous so as to 
 quarter the speed of an ex press down hill, that UNDULATING 
 RAILROADS (on the principle of COMPENSATION) "had 
 had volumes " written about them, that broad GAUGE 
 would be advisable but for break of gauge ; it described and 
 illustrated a street OVERHEAD RAILWAY, and thought 
 even Clegg and Samuda's ATMOSPHEEIC SYSTEM was not 
 quite satisfactory. 
 
 Gillespie, W. M. Roadmaking and Construction of 
 Roads and Railroads. 344pp. (71 on Railways). d8* 
 10/6 New York 1848 
 
 DAY. 3rd. Edition. 
 
 $8 102 1&INE years after his second edition Mr. Day brought out a 
 third and gives us the opportunity of seeing the progress the 
 art of railway making had made in the meantime. 
 Day, Jas. Construction and Formation of Rail-ways. 
 2i6pp. 8 5/ 1848 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
26 
 History of the Construction continued. 
 
 Menai Bridge. The old L. & N. W. R. 
 1849 103 " PLAYS with his subject [The Tubular Bridge over the 
 MENAI STRAITS] in the same spirit that fascinated the 
 public years back in his Bubbles from the Brunntn of 
 Nassau. His riveting scene is as good as a visit to the 
 Hartz Mountains ; and the Sketch of "the Engineer 
 gently smoking his cigar on the morning after the elevation 
 of the first section of his stupendous fabric is worthy of 
 Flaxman." So spoke the Ry. Times of Highways^ and 
 Dryways. Bound therewith is "Stokers and Pokers " the 
 same author's famous description of the LONDON and 
 NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY, the ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, 
 and the RAILWAY CLEARING HOUSE [as contributed to the 
 Quarterly Review\ 
 
 [Head. Sir Francis] " Highways and Dryways and 
 "Stokers and Pokers." 2 volsin I. 83 + 2o8pp. 10/6 1849 
 
27 
 
 History of the Construction continued. 
 
 Clarke. The Third History. 
 
 85O 107 ^HE third little History of Railways was written by Yorke 
 Clarke. It contains special reference to ANDERSON, the 
 first proposer of railways, and to THOMAS GRAY. It gave a 
 view of the GREENWICH LINE with its train, a table of COST 
 of principal railways and described the NAVVIES, SIGNALS, 
 and SIGNALMEN (illustrated), while other sections of the 
 book gave a sketch of the STEAM ENGINE and also of the 
 
 ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. 
 
 Clarke, R. Yorke. Railway Appliances in the Nine- 
 teenth Century. 221 pp. 18 7/6 1850 
 
 WILLIAMS. OUR IRON ROADS. 
 
 852 108 7KHiTH his ANECDOTES and DESCRIPTIONS ot the objects of 
 admiration and wonder in English railway construction and 
 the railway system, Mr. WILLIAMS indeed first introduced 
 
 the RAILWAY SHOW TO THE BRITISH PUBLIC, telling of 
 
 GEO. STEPHENSON, MR. HUDSON, and the MANIA, and 
 then pointing out to them the PERMANENT WAY, the RAILS, 
 the famous BRIDGES, Stations, the ATMOSPHERIC SYSTEM, 
 etc., etc. And as the "show" grew Mr. WILLIAMS' 
 pages kept pace with them and are the nearest 
 approach in England to THOS. M. COOLEY'S style of 
 publication in the " RAILWAYS of AMEEICA," while the 
 descriptions are probably unsurpassed. 
 Williams. Our Iron Roads. 390 pp. d8 10/6 i8j2 
 Ditto ditto SHPP- d8 7/6 i*3 
 
 AUTOMATIC SIGNALS. 
 
 855 io8a ^YER in 1844 introduced ELECTRIC RAILWAY SIGNALS by 
 
 which the train itself signalled the line clear and signals 
 could be transmitted between two stations or elsewhere. 
 (They were tried on the NORTH KENT). Both LONDON 
 BIRM., and G. W. R., it seems, DISCARDED Cooke's tele- 
 graph after first trials. 
 
 Ogan, Alf. Railway Collisions Prevented. Illus- 
 trations, descriptions of Tver's Railway Signals, etc. 
 54 pp. 8 10/6 1855 
 
 The Last Bridge on the South Wales Route. 
 
 856 109 {HE pages below accurately describe the LAST LINK in 
 
 the CHAIN of RAILWAYS from LONDON to MILFORD 
 HAVEN, BRUNEL'S BRIDGE over the WYE at CHBPSTOW. 
 A large frontispiece gives a fine ;view of bridge, railway, 
 and river. 
 
 Description of the Tubular Suspension Bridge at 
 Chepstow. upp. 10/6 1856 
 
 FISH JOINTS, ETC 
 
 555-7 no JEJVEN George Stephenson was suspected as long as he 
 was interested in his various patents. Engineers seem 
 often to have found their interests clashing with their 
 duties as professional men, and hence THE PERMANENT 
 W T AY COMPANY formed a united interest in patents. It 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
28 
 History of the Construction continued. 
 
 was joined,, by the BARLOWS, SIR JOHN MACNEILL and 
 
 others. Their circular of Oct. 1855 illustrates the then 
 
 new FISH JOINTS and various Sleepers, Rails and Chairs. 
 
 That of July 1857 deals with EXPERIMENTS ON CAST IRON 
 
 SLEEPERS. 
 
 Permanent Way Co.'s Circulars for Oct. '55 and 
 
 July '57. 7/6 1855-7 
 
 HASKOLL. 
 
 1857 in JN 1857 Mr. Haskoll published two large works, in which 
 he suggested many entirely NEW METHODS of CONSTRUCTION 
 as the result of many years' practice. 
 Haskoll, W. D. Railway Construction. s68pp. and 
 250 plates and diagrams. 2 vols. imp. 8 clotn. 2*/ 
 (published 2/12/6) 1857 
 
 CHANNEL TUNNEL. 
 
 1561 1123- cannot say I have the first proposal made for a CHANNEL 
 
 TUNNEL, but I have the FIRST ENGLISH PROPOSAL FOR 
 
 JOINING ENGLAND TO FRANCE BY A TUNNEL, Containing a 
 
 brief history of the movement to date and the new proposal. 
 It is 
 
 Chalmers, Jas. The Channel Tunnel. With view, 
 map, and plan. d8. 10/6 1861 
 
 CRUMLIN VIADUCT, 1862. 
 
 1562 113 TKHHEN the Crumlin Viaduct, 210 feet above the river, 
 
 had joined the historic , TAFF VALE RAILWAY with the 
 NEWPORT and ABERGAVKNNY, and opened the way to 
 MERTHYA and CARDIFF* the" Bon. Major FITZMAURICE 
 spoke of it as THE HIGHEST VIADUCT IN THE WORLD. 
 Mr. Maynard's book gives a very careful description 
 -(illustrated). 
 
 Maynard, H. N. Handbook to Crumlin Viaduct. 
 d8 7/6 1862 
 
 W. BRIDGES ADAMS. 
 
 1862 114 /IbR. ADAMS, the maker of the SAMUEL Steam Railway 
 
 : Carriages, gave some good Character Sketches in the pages 
 
 below. He speaks of Murdock, Trevithick, Cugnot, Blen- 
 
 kinsopp,Gray, and especially of GEO. STEPHENSON, he deals 
 
 with the " Civil versus Mechanical Engineer feeling, chats abeut per- 
 manent way and rolling stork, steam on highways, utility of specula- 
 tors, Indian routes, light railways, curious lines, c., &c. 
 
 Adams ( W. Bridges) Roads and Railroads. 372pp. 
 P 8 7/6 1862 
 
 BRIDGE RENEWALS. 
 
 1864 115 jfl&R. J. DOWNIE in admiration of the very beautiful 
 method adopted for RENEWING the NETHAN BRIDGE on the 
 Lesmahagow line (Caledonian) wrote a paper in the 
 Transactions of the Inst. of Engineers in Scotland- 
 VolVII. s/ 1864 
 
 Communications with Guard or Driver. 
 
 1805 u6 3-N the paper below mention is made of an AXLE BREAKING 
 under the carriage in which Mr. WM. BAKKR, Engineer-in- 
 Chief of the LONDON and NORTH WESTERN .RAILWAY was 
 
iistory of the Construction continued. 
 
 ti availing, signalling to the driver being found impossible 
 and DIFFERENT METHODS of communications are here 
 pointed out by an officer of the Railway Dept. ot the Board 
 of Trade. 
 
 Tyler, Capt. On Circulation and Communication in 
 Railway Trains. 2Opp. and plate (Ex. from Journal of 
 Science] 2Opp. 8 7/6 1865 ' 
 
 RONEY'S RAMBLES. 
 
 168 117 SIR Cusack RONEY'S RAMBLES furnish chatty accounts of 
 
 the RAILWAYS in AMERICA, on the CONTINENT, and in the 
 Colonies. Hehasmuch tosayonthe POST OFFICE connection 
 with Railways, describes famous existing and proposed 
 TUNNELS, has some anecdotes of ROBT. STEPHENSON, 
 and references to our GREAT LOCOMOTIVE WORKS and to 
 CRAMPTON'S Locomotives, FELL'S CENTRE RAIL ENGINES 
 (illustrated) etc. Sir Cusack, I believe, was once Secy, to 
 a Co. opposing the formation of the G.N.R. and afterwards 
 became the Eastern Counties Secretary. 
 Roney, Sir C. P. Rambles on Railways. 4QQpp. d8 
 7/6 1868 
 
 NEW NARROW GAUGE. 
 
 169 1 1 8 /I&R. F. \V. ARMSTRONG in conpiling Facts and Opinions on 
 
 NARROW GAUGE RAILWAYS gave the '* Times" articles, 
 reports on the FAIRUE ENGINE, remarks on LIGHT 
 RAILWAYS on the Continent and in America, NOTED 
 INCLINES and WELSH RAILWAYS, with extracts from Roy. 
 Commissioner's Report 1867 and Capt. Gallon's Report to 
 Board of Trade 1857. 
 
 Facts and Opinions on Narrow Guage Railways 
 collected by the P.W.D. Central Provinces, June 1870. 
 i6ypp. roy8 I5/ Priv. printed 1870 
 
 NEW NARROW GAUGE. 
 
 172 H9J/IRR. Fairlie here replies to criticisms on the NEW NARROW 
 GAUGE SYSTEM and describes the working of that system OH 
 various railways with his LOCOMOTIVES. 
 Fairlie, Robert F. Railways or No Railways. I44pp. 
 with illustrations of locomotives etc. d8 5/ 1872 
 
 Block System of Railways. 
 
 873] 120 QHE Popular Science Review about 1873 contained an 
 article on railway telegraphs, illustrated by a good plate 
 (showing Improved Railway Signals) and well described the 
 BLOCK SYSTEM. 
 
 Price. Railway Travelling and Electricity, n pp. 
 8 3/6 circa 1873 
 
 PENNSYLVANNIAN PRACTICE. 1874. 
 574- 121 H 66 paged pamphlet on the Pennsylvania Railroad was 
 edited by Messrs. Fox and Forrest in 1874, and gives much 
 practical information on AMERICAN RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION 
 and MANAGEMENT. It is an excerpt from Proceedings 
 Civil Engs., Vol XXXIX. In it Mr. WEBB (the Nor. 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
30 
 
 Hi.* tory of the Plate Lines. 
 
 Western's Engineer) says LOCOMOTIVE PRACTICE IN 
 PENNSYL. WAS ABOUT THE BEST TO BE SEEN IN AMERICA. 
 Fox. Pennsylvannia Railroad. 8 5/ 1874 
 
 "The Finest Show" in England. 
 
 1889 122 1bERE is the biggest English production in the way of 
 Railways THE LONDON and NORTH WESTERN. Come 
 and see the show, John Bull, I will prove to you that you 
 have been very well treated. You would not like to ruin us 
 by further demands, would you ? And Sir Geo. FINDLAY 
 here proceeds to explain the system to John Bull " down in 
 the mouth." 
 
 Findlay, Sir George. The Working and Management 
 of an English Railway. 300 pp. with numerous illustra- 
 tions. 8 cloth. 4/6 1889 
 
 istorg of tlte |Ciiu0. 
 
 Great public plate IRailwags. 
 Kilmarnock and Troon (IO miles). 
 18O7 I22a {HE "TROON RAILWAY" (made by Jessop) was, in its. 
 day, the most considerable in SCOTLAND. It was for this 
 railway that the DUKE of PORTLAND gave the first outside 
 order to STEPHENSON for a locomotive as early as 1817. It 
 was the first public and locomotive railway in Scotland, and the follow- 
 ing old chart of it (dated a year before its Act), is of no little interest. 
 Of course, Geo. Stephenson's locomotives did not well agree with Mr. 
 Jessop's plate rails. 
 
 Plan of the Kilmarnock and Troon Plate Railway. 
 
 3^ to m. Size 2-ft. x 8^ 2 2s 
 
 Gloucester and Cheltenham Railway. 
 
 18O9 122!) 3" do not put 1809 as the date of the medal. It was the 
 year the Co. got its Act. What brought this old plate line 
 carrying passengers with an Engine of Geo. Stephenson's 
 "BLUCHER" type at any early or recent date I cannot tell. It 
 might have been, but I doubt it. The Engineer had this very medal illus- 
 trated in their pages, and perhaps explained. Locomotives were used on 
 the line at least before its incorporation with the Birmingham and 
 Gloucester Ry. in 1839. It was to form a portion of James* Great Cen- 
 tral Junction Ry. in 1820. 
 
 Gloucester and Cheltenham Railway Medal, as above 
 in Bronze. 2 2s 
 
History of the Plate Lines continued. * [History of the Lines. 
 
 HAY RAILWAY (24 miles). 
 
 I81O I22c F the very early tramroads, the predecessors of railways, 
 I have secured recoids of Nos. 6 7 and n of the '* British 
 Almanac" List. The one below is No. II one of the 
 largest of the Welsh public plate lines of that date. 
 Hay Plate Railway. Wm. Crossley's Plan of the 
 line from near Brecon to Parton Cross, Herefordshire. 
 On vellum, /-ft. by 18 inches. $ 5s 1810 
 
 The First Great Trunk Line ever proposed. 
 181O I22d SIR JOHN RENNIE said Telford either did not believe in 
 Railways, or pretended that he did not. But possibly he 
 was disgusted over the result of one of his first big surveys. 
 Even in 1824 long 1 railroads or tramroads seemed unknown. 
 But fourteen years before that date Telford had carefully 
 surveyed a line one hundred and eighteen miles long reaching from 
 " Baillie Clelland's Garden Wall " at Glasgow to the Quay at Berwick. 
 He called it a " Cast Iron Railway." The gradients are most carefully 
 shown and include two sharp inclines *5 and 24 miles from Glasgow. 
 No line of equal length received an Act till twenty six years afterwards. 
 It must I think have been by far the longest line ever proposed at that 
 date and was possibly the first long line ever proposed in the world. 
 
 Telford's Plan for a Cast Iron Railway from Glasgow 
 to Berwick. ^10 io/ 1810 
 
 STRATFORD AND M OR ETON 
 1821 i22e ()ne of the best railway engineers about this time, says 
 Mr. Ritchie, was the late Mr. Wm. James, of Warwick, 
 who planned the first railway of any length in England : the 
 Stratford and Moreton railway . .. completed in 1821 . . 
 i8j miles in length. In 1825 Thomas Gray in his " Observations " 
 quoted from " The Courier" that two Acts had been obtained, one for 
 the " Stockton" the other for the "Stratford and Moreton Ry." each 
 exceeding thirty miles, and it is intended to adopt the Locomotive. It 
 is said that Mr. Rastrick opposed the adoption of the Loco here as well 
 as at Liverpool. Passengers have been carried on it [Brit. Almanac] 
 but it was a plate line [vide Act of 1833] though of wrchight iron. The 
 original Acts below show restrictions on ks use' and many important 
 items connected with the only line that was then nearly the compeer 
 of the Stockton and Darlington [see also under Stratford below], 
 
 Stratford and Moreton Railway. The Original Acts of 
 1821, 1825, and 1833. 3 folios. 5 5$ 1821 etc. 
 
 Stroud and Severn Railroad 
 1825 I22f ^HE origin of an extremely early portion of what is now 
 part of the Great Western Railway may be seen in the 
 pamphlet below in which the Canal interest calls for the 
 abandonment of a projected locomotive railway from Stroud 
 to Stonehouse etc. Interesting particulars are given of the line. It 
 was referred to by Thos. Gray in his 1825 edition and subsequently 
 became a part of the Cheltenham and Great Western. 
 
 The Stroud and Severn Rail-road, a Fallacy. 25pp. 8 
 Extremely rare. 3 3/ 1825 
 
3* 
 
 Proposed Routes continued . [History of the Lines. 
 
 the plan of the line from Witton Park Colliery through 
 Darlington to Stockton showing at various points little 
 coloured sections, a gradient table etc. And the plan has come to me 
 from the collection of Mr. John Dixon, a gentleman who first appears 
 in railway history as the chief assistant of George Stephenson in 
 making this, the first important, passenger railway. 
 
 j Mr. John Dixon's Own Plan of the Stockton and 
 Darlington Railway, (abt. 2ft. x i). ^3 35 1823 
 
 London and Birmingham Railway. 
 
 Original Project. i orsr 
 
 1824 125 "Bs early as 1824," says JEAFFRESON in his Life of 
 
 Robert Stephenson, a proposal was made to lay down a 
 railway between London and Birmingham." I am glad to 
 be able to number even the rare document detailing this 
 proposal among the collection. It was issued the samei'ear as Sander's 
 first prospectus of.the Liverpool and Manchester line. The project was 
 influential^' supported, Matthias Attwood M.P. heading the London 
 Committee and Robert Smith, the High Bailiff of Birtn., the Birm. 
 Committee. And three of the latter, Wm. Chance, J. F. Ledsam, and 
 J as. Foster came to be named as Proprietors in the subsequent Act. The 
 little prospectus mentions Committeemen, puts the cost of the line at 
 ^T, 200,000 and limited shares to a hundred each holder. It is one of 
 the earliest papers connected with the promotion of what is now the 
 London and North Western Railway System, 
 
 Prospectus of the London and Birmingham Railroad 
 Co. folio. 5 55 1824 
 
 NEWCASTLE and CARLISLE. 
 
 1825 i25a {o GO BACK into railway history before the days of the 
 
 LIVERPOOL and MANCHESTER RAILWAY is to go deep into 
 railway antiquity. The brief REPORT below carries us 
 back to a few months after the opening of the STOCKTON 
 and DARLINGTON line, and throws the limelight on the 
 proceedings of ONE OF THE FIRST OF IMPORTANT 
 COMPANIES. The little document is the REPORT OF THE 
 SUGGESTED ROUTE of the NEWCASTLE and CARLISLE 
 RAILWAY Co., signed by, and bearing the autograph of 
 the Chairman, Mr. JAMES LOSH, who was instrumental in 
 procuring (and whose name appeared in) the first ACT of 
 the present line (dated 1829). So old ,is the line that no 
 railway magazines are old enough to record its early life, and 
 though full of unusual interest the earliest accounts of it 
 are almost unobtainable. 
 
 Newcastle and Carlisle Intended Railroad. A brief 
 4 'Directors' Report" on Route. Extremely Rare. 
 S/S 1825 
 
 Liverpool arid Manchester Railway. 
 1825 126 {HE pamphlet below is one of the three on which the 
 Quarterly Review founded its famous article in 1825. It 
 describes the canal monopoly and their ''exorbitant and 
 unj ust- charges " and in stoutly advocating the railway 
 suggested a speed of to or 12 miles an hour. 
 
 Sanders, Joseph. Letter on the projected Railroad 
 between Liverpool and Manchester. 46pp. 8 sewn. 
 
 2X/ [I825J 
 
33 
 
 Proposed Routes- continued. [History of the Lines 
 
 CANTERBURY AND WHITSTABLE. 
 1826 i26a "$ms wa s the FIRST RAILWAY in the SOUTH of 
 ENGLAND," says Wishaw, worked by ' Stationary 'and 
 Locomotive Engines. It was projected by Wm. James 
 and made by John Dixon and Mr. Locke on behalf of 
 Geo. Stephenson. James was very sore about it. It was six miles 
 long and was opened 3rd May, 1830. It had a Locomotive in 1831 but 
 not in 1839. Below is an estimate with expected costs and receipts 
 printed and dated April 6th, 1826, but with the autograph signatures of 
 John Brent, Chairman, and John Dixon, Engineer, and it was among 
 the latter's papers that the estimate was found. 
 
 Canterbury and Whitstable Railway Estimates, 
 folio, being John Dixon's Own Copy, with his 
 Autograph. ^4 45 1826 
 
 Sheffield and Peak Forest Railway. 
 1826 "127 TIQHE-N a canal was proposed between SHEFFIELD and the 
 PEAK FOREST CANAL Mr. SANDERSON wrote the paper 
 
 below 10 SHOW THE SUPERIORITY OF 'AN EDGE RAILWAY 
 
 "for passing aver a mountainous district." He pointed 
 out that LOCOMOTIVES COULD then ASCEND a gradient of I 
 in 84, referred to the NEWCASTLE EXPERIMENTS, Mr. 
 
 JESSOP'S Report, quoted NICHOLAS WOOD to describe a locomotive, 
 spoke of a junction of this, line with the Cromford Raihuay, and so 
 on. . But this stout old advocate of a railway over a canal was not so 
 sure that " in the present state of commercial affairs so large a sumas 
 ^160,000 could be raised for a speculative undertaking" 
 
 Sanderson, Henry. On the superiority of an Edge 
 Railway to a Canal between Sheffield and Peak 
 Forest Canal. Qipp. 12 ,3/3 Sheffield 1826 
 
 Limerick to Water-Ford. Locos, with Turf Fuel. 
 '826 128 "3-RfeLAND has had a varied railway career.$j|This line 
 through the "GOLDEN VALE" was proposed when the 
 Stockton line opened. Mr. Nimmo reports for a line with 
 wrought iron bars supported upon stone 'blocks by iron 
 chairs. >He t,hkiks locomotives will cost ^600 each, but 
 
 DOES NOT KNOW WHETHER TURF FUEL will suit them. 
 
 Nimmo, Alex. Report (to the Hibernian Railway 
 Co.) on the Limerick and Waterford Railway. p8 
 Very Rare. 3/3 1826 
 
 Perth, Arbroath, and Montrose. 
 
 327 i2$A ^BETWEEN the dates of the opening of the STOCKTON & DARLINGTON 
 and the LIVERPOOL and MANCHESTER lines, the celebrated Scotch 
 engineer, ROBERT STEVENSON, made a report for railways in the 
 Perth, Arbroath, 'and Montrose districts. He considered that 
 Locomotives might be used with advantage, and estimated for rails 
 accordingly, even though the- traffic was so desultory that horses 
 would have to be used in the first instance. 
 
 Stevenson. Robt. Report relative to Railways from 
 Perth, Arbroath, and Montrose into the Valley of 
 Strathmore. With maps, shewing- proposed lines 
 from Perth to Forfar, Montrose, and Aberbrothwick, 
 and connecting 1 lines to Crieff and Stirling, and also 
 to Dunfermline via Kirkaldy. . 79pp. 4 .3/3 1827 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
34 
 Proposed Lines continued. [History of the Lines. 
 
 Leeds, Selby, and Hull Railway. 
 
 1827-9 129 jflftR. HILL says he was well known in LEEDS for his 
 advocacy of a railway to HULL. He DID NOT BELIEVE IN 
 LOCOMOTIVES and so he proposed a line different to one 
 surveyed for their use two years before. But he was well 
 informed on EARLY PROPOSED RAILWAYS, and his 
 criticisms of the STOCKTON and DARLINGTON, LIVERPOOL 
 arid MANCHESTER, of the proposed NORFOLK LINE, of 
 
 the GARNKIRK and GLASGOW Co.'s SUPPORT of LOCOMOTIVES, and 
 even his own propqsals for carriages capable of running on or off the 
 line, and bis statement that it is not safe to work locomotives in the 
 dark (at night) all go to form one of the most valuable old contribu- 
 tions to the history of the introduction oj locomotives on railways. 
 
 HILL, Thos. Treatise upon the Utility of a RAILWAY 
 from LEEDS to SELBY and HULL. 32pp. 1827. With a 
 SUPPLEMENT (i6pp.) to show that HORSES would be 
 better than Locomotives on the Manchester and on the 
 Selby Railways (1829). 3/3 
 
 GRAND JUNCTION. 
 
 183O I29a ^HE Plan and Section below take the line only from 
 LIVERPOOL to CHORLTON. It will be seen, however, from 
 Freeling's Guide that after the first Company had lost a Bill 
 for making the line they "gave up" and when the project was 
 renewed four years later it was arranged that the Liverpool Committee 
 should apply for an Act from Liverpool to Chorlton and the Birm. 
 Committee for a line from Biim. to Chorlton. And for the third time 
 Parliament rejected it. The Canal Companies opposing because of a 
 bridge over the Mersey well shown in the beautifully executed plan 
 below. Geo. Stephenson and Locke were the engineers and it is 
 signed by the former [Vide " Descriptions " and " Guides."] 
 
 Plan and Section of an Intended Railway from 
 Liverpool to Chorlton . . A portion of a projected 
 Railway .from Liverpool to Birmingham. About 
 7-feetby.2i $' Si t l8 3o] 
 
 Newcastle and Carlisle Railway. 
 183O 130 ** {HE NORTHERN YEAR BOOK" describes a public 
 meeting at NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE on the i8th Feb. at which 
 JAMES LOSH made a long and well received speech (5pp. 
 report given) advocating the above line. A Parliamentary 
 Petition was drawn up and apparently by the 22 May 
 following the Act was passed, and later on in the book are 
 given ,THE. 182 CLAUSES OF THE ACT (after the Royal 
 assent j,{he .sixth clause stipulating THAT NO LOCOMO- 
 TIVES SHALL BE USED. 
 
 Northern Year Book for 1829. 2i/ 1830 
 
 LONDON AND GREENWICH. 
 
 1832 I3oa QHE year before London got the Act for its first Railway 
 Mr. LLOYD published a Coloured Plan showing its course 
 across the various streets together with a view of a dozen 
 of the Thousand Arches on which the line was to be made. 
 toloured Plan of the Greenwich Line. About affect 
 by i# 3 3s ^32 
 
Proposed Lines continued. [History of the Lin^s. 
 
 Midland Counties Ry. 
 (ORIGIN OF THE MIDLAND). 
 
 1833 131 3-T is with considerable satisfaction that I draw attention 
 AND below to some of the FIRST OFFICIAL RECORDS of 
 
 1834 what is now THE MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY. 
 The opening pages of Williams' Rise and Progress of the 
 Midland Line will call to mind the " little group of plain 
 practical men . . . deep in mines, in counsel, and in 
 pocket " who used to meet at " THE SUN " at EASTWOOD 
 and who on the I4th October 1832 resolved after due 
 deliberation to lay a railway from PiNXTON to LEICESTER. 
 
 The pages below open with one of the resolutions passed that day for a 
 Committee to disseminate a knowledge of the advantages of the 
 railway. And dating from Alfreton 15 Oct. 1832 they proceed so to do 
 in 42 pages affixing the famous MR. JESSOP'S REPORT and a 
 CAPITAL MAP of the DISTRICT. ADDED to the pages is the 
 PROSPECTUS of the Co. as it stood two years later and on this 
 prospectus are thenamesof the patrons, the very large PROVISIONAL 
 COMMITTEE classified under LEICESTERSHIRE', NOTTING- 
 HAMSHIRE and DERBYSHIRE the big DIRECTING 
 COMMITTEE (Mr. BABBINGTON, Chairman) the nine bankers, 
 three solicitors, with GEORGE RENNIE, Engineer and J. F. BELL 
 (of Leicester) Secretary. MR. RENNIE'S REPORT (included) 
 was dated 26 Nov. 1834. The capital was ,600,000 and the object of 
 the Co. wa.s to connect the Metropolis with the Northern Districts 
 (and primarly with Notts, Derbyshire and Leicestershire,). The length 
 69 miles. Mr. Rennie mentions his report of 27. Nov. 1833 and one of 
 the 3oth June 1833 and the present one appears to supply a missing 
 link not mentioned by Mr. Williams. Additional interest too is lent 
 to this prospectus by its assertion that except by subdivision no project 
 to connect the Metropolis luith the North will ever be accomplished 
 and that NO LINE EASTWARD OF IT WILL EVER EXTEND 
 FROM LONDON SO FAR TO THE NORTH AS LINCOLN." 
 
 Midland Counties Railway. Prospectus of the 
 Pinxton and Leicestershire (42pp. 2 maps 1833) an ^ 
 also of the Line from Rugby via Leicester to Long 
 Eaton and thence to Pinxton, Derby and Nottingham. 
 (1834 4pp. folio). Altogether 46 pages. Extremely rare. 
 771 
 Great Western Railway. The First Bill. 
 
 1834 132 JN connection whh the first attempt of the G. W. R. to 
 
 get an Act for a line from LONDON to READING and from 
 BATH to BRISTOL we have below extracts from the evidence 
 for that Bill, and the replies of Mr. WALKER (Mayor of 
 Bristol), various tradesmen on the line, BRUNEL, Geo. 
 STEPHEN-SON, James WALKER, H. R. PALMER, C. A. 
 SAUNDERS, Joseph PEASE, Joseph LOCKE and others 
 arranged so as to give the ORIGIN of the UNDERTAKING, its 
 expected ADVANTAGES, FACILITIES, COSTS, etc. A preface 
 affixed by the Directors. It is ONE of the EARLIEST OF 
 
 THE G. W. R. PROMOTION RECORDS. 
 
 Extracts from the Commons Committee Evidence on 
 the Great Western Railway Bill. 52 pp. ^3 3/ 
 
 Bristol, 1834 
 London and Birmingham Railway Plan. 
 
 1835 I32a {Two months after the Act had been obtained for the ex- 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
36 
 
 Proposed Routes-continued. [History of the Lines. 
 
 tension of the line from CAMDEN TOWN to EUSTON, and 
 two years before any part of the line was opened, Mr. 
 
 CHEFFINS published the MAP and SECTION below, with 
 
 facsimile signature. "Robert Stephenson, Engineer," 
 
 showing the " ? - J T -~ ' ^ * ~ r ~ 1 
 
 shown as join 
 not located.) 
 
 with plans 
 here 
 
 lauMimic ^iguaLuic, *xwuv-i t ji.-j/"v-^^., ^... to ->. , ^ f 
 
 showing the Birmingham and London Depots. The G.W.K.^is here 
 shown as joining this line at Wormwood Scrubs. (Section Datum 
 
 not locaieu.^ 
 
 London and Birmingham Ry. Cheffins Plan and bec- 
 tion folded into case. Scale im. to ^in. 2i/ 1835 
 
 Cundy's Opposition to the Midland Counties Ry. 
 
 1835 133 3-usx when the "MIDLAND COUNTIES" was being brought 
 to a successful issue the extraordinary CUNDY appeared on 
 the scene. It was he who had a proposed rod in pickle for 
 the ' MIDLAND" as a through line m the shape of his 
 projected "GRAND NORTHERN" from LONDON to LINCOLN 
 and YORK, and Mr. BABINGTON, Chairman of the 
 " Midland Counties," here replied to some " Observations 
 
 of his. 
 
 The cost of the Birm. line would make fares dear to London said Mr. 
 Cundy, which Mr. B. denied, adding however that EVERY Co. 
 chrrged " as high as was consistent with prudence ." Further on he 
 remarks that the "GRAND NORTHERN " Co. had been formed nearly 
 10 years ago and suggests that Mr. CUNDY was now "seeking tc 
 obtain the remains of its almost forgotten deposits." The MIDLAND 
 COUNTIES," on the other hand, had received applications for shares up 
 to one third of ^ts capital. [The Mid. Count, first ACT was obtamed 
 21 June, 1836.]] ~ . 
 
 Babington's Letters in Reply to Cundy. 14 pp. 2 2/ 
 
 Leicester, 1835 
 
 MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY. 
 
 1835 I33a JBELOW is a copy of the Book of Re Terences dated Nov. 28, 
 1835, and signed "Charles Vignoles, Engineer," showing 
 the 'names of owners and tenants through whose property 
 .infirf^nri:: this first portion of the* Midland system was made. 
 
 Midland Counties Railway Reference Book. 87 pp. 
 obi. 4 Very Rare, 3 3/ l8 35 
 
 The London Grand Junction Railway. 
 
 1835 I33b QHE report below takes us back to the days when the 
 LONDON and BIRMINGHAM Railway meant to end at CAM- 
 DEN TOWN (London) and to be joined there by the GREAT 
 WESTERN from Bristol. And this was to be the Junction line 
 to take passengers on to near FARRINGDON -STREET. 
 
 The report speaks of the disadvantages of the distant Birmingham line 
 terminus, and of making this line in a deep trench as .first proposed. 
 Instead of that idea of Mr. Remmington's, says George Rennie, I pro- 
 pose to make a railway on arches, like the Greenwich. The Roman and 
 Lisbon Aquaducts we cannot equal in magnificence, but we can make 
 ours an ornament. A plan of the line is given, and a realistic view of a 
 terminus of magnificent proportions. In March, 1837, the Mechanics 
 Magazine announced that the line had been commenced with con- 
 siderable spirit at a certain spot, but see Ry. Times, 1838 to 1843. 
 
 The London Grand Junction Railway Report, dated 
 20th November, 1835. Folio. 3 35 ^ . 
 London and Brighton Railway. 
 
 HN interesting historical examination over the earliest ^P^^OM 
 Brighton, will be found in the LONDON and BRIGHTON 
 RAILWAY BILL EVIDENCE before Ho. of Commons Committee. 
 
Proposed Routes continued. [History of the Lines. 
 
 Mr. ROBT. STEPHESNON states that his father was not the original 
 projector but the EXECUTOR of the Liv. and MAN. RAILWAY ; 
 gives remarkable evidence as to the INFLUENCE of GRADIENTS. SIR 
 JOHN RENNIE claims that the MANCHESTER and LIVERPOOL 
 RAILWAY was carried out in a great measure according to HIS, and his 
 father's ORIGINAL DESIGN, asserts they could- have -made it at FAR 
 LESS EXPENSE, that he was employed in 1826 to explore a line for the 
 Great London and Birmingham Railway Co., and in 1825 was 
 employed for a survey by a Co. called the Surrey, Sussex, Hants, 
 Wilts, and Somerset Ry., mentions four or five other early projects, 
 that he LOST over .3,000 by them in 1834, and that his plans for a 
 Brighton Railway had been submitted, without his consent, to Mr. 
 Robert Stephenson *' whom be did not consider a proper judge of such 
 plans." 
 
 London and Brighton Railway Bills Evidence, by 
 Robert Stephenson, Geo. B. Bidder, Sir John Rennie 
 and Joseph Locke. 454 pp, d8 cl. 42/ 1836 
 
 Great Central Railway Dublin to Long-Ford. 
 1836 135 /JftR. Nimmo reported in 1836 for a line to LONGFORD to be 
 called the ''GREAT CENTRAL IRISH RAILWAY." This is 
 a report on the ROUTE aud GRADIENTS. 
 Nimmo 's Report for a Great Central Irish Railway. 
 p8 21 1 1836 
 
 Newcastle and North Shields. 
 
 1835 I3$a TKHiSHAW gives a good description of this line in his work 
 on fa&Raihoctys of Great Britain. It appears to have been 
 executed with great skill by Mr. ROBT. NICHOLSON who 
 made the original survey given in the Plan and Sections 
 belew. The line cost ^36,000 per mile, the Ouse Burn and Willington 
 Dean Viaducts about .24,000 each (;i,ooo being the cost of an ordinary 
 turnpike bridge i6ft. high). ^14,000 was saved at f 
 
Proposed Routes continued. [History of the Line 
 
 doing the journey IN TWELVE HOURS by Worcester and Oxfon 
 (or by North Wales Coast and Grand Junction). 
 
 Brief Sketch of a New Line between Dublin and 
 London (via Portdynllaen). 40 pp. p8 2 2/ 1836 
 
 Birmingham and Gloucester. 
 
 LICKEY INCLINE. 
 
 The above \vill give an idea of the proportions of the Incline for whicl 
 the Americans made us the locomotives in 1839. 
 
 Birmingham and Gloucester. 
 
 1836 I37a his line is noteworthy for several reasons. The origina 
 surveying of it was, says Mr. Williams, the first work Brune 
 ever did. It was another Quaker's line. It engaged its 
 engineer on " no success, no pay '' terms, and had to avoic 
 all important towns to save expense. And it had on it the famous 
 Lickey Incline which Brunei and Stephenson declared it was impossible 
 to ascend with locomotives, and for which therefore Capt. Moorsoin 
 was compelled to order bogie engines from Norns of Philadelphia. 
 Below is a copy of its original Bill, famous in railway history as being 
 the first ever sanctioned the first time it was submitted to Parliament. 
 
 Birmingham and Gloucester. Original Bill. i6spp. 
 Folio, hf. cf. 2 Si I l 
 
 Great North of England. 
 
 1836 1370 tHE Great North of England Ry. was the earliest portion 
 
 of the East Coast Route. Below is Mr. Thos. Storey's 
 Report to the Provisional Committee for its construction. 
 Its MAP shows the line from York to Newcastle (though it 
 was never made beyond Darlington). The " East London 
 Ry " is the projected southern connection and a projected line extends 
 north to Morpeth. The Stockton, Stanhope, Clarence, Whitby 
 Durham and Sunderland, So. Shields, and Hartlepool, and Leeds and 
 Selby Railways are shown as " going concerns.'' 
 
 Storey's Report of the Gt. North of England Railway 
 25 pp. dS 2 si I8 3 6 
 
 Manchester's Rival to the Grand Junction. 
 
 1837 I37c {particulars of this line are given in Observations on Prin- 
 
 cipal Railways, 1838, and in Wishaw s Analysis of 1837. 
 It was to join the Birmingham and Derby at Tamworth. 
 GEO. STEPHENSON and BIDDER were the engineers, and 
 
 the Bill for it was, I believe, thrown out because a barn of the value of 
 ;io was shown in one plan and not in another ! The North Stafford- 
 shire and Trent Valley lines run partly over the route. It was always 
 shown in early B 'rods haw '.v(in outline) as the Manchester and Burning, 
 ham Railway and its extension. (But vide Map in Meek. Magazine, 
 vol. xxviii.) It was Manchester's attempt to get a rival route (to Grand 
 Junction) towards London and Birmingham. 
 
 Atlas (with 1 8 maps) of the Plan of the proposed Man- 
 . Chester South Union Railway, i6in. x i4in. 22! [1837] 
 
39 
 
 Proposed Routes continued [History of the Lines, 
 
 Lond. and Birmingham Ry. (Early Stipulations). 
 
 1837 138-9 [{THE first act (1833) of the Birm. Line was to run from 
 Birm. to CAMDEN TOWN ; the second (1835) to extend to 
 EuSTON ; the third to borrow j 1, 000,000 extra. The Act 
 stipulated (i.a.) that OWNER'S NAMES should be painted on 
 Carriages ; that proper CONSTABLES should be appointed ; that 
 Engines should consume their own SMOKE ' that that there should 
 be " Milestones " every tjuarter mile, or failing them, NO CHARGE 
 FOR CARRIAGE. 
 
 London and Birmingham Ry. The first three Acts. 
 
 8 An original copy. 10/6 1837 
 The First Act. folio. (Reprinted 1883) 2/6 
 
 Hampshire and Wiltshire Railway. 
 
 1837 140 HN interesting little item of the SOUTH WESTERN 
 
 system will be iound below in the FIRST PROPOSAL MADE 
 
 TO CONNECT SOUTHAMPTON WITH SALISBURY by the 
 
 HAMPSHIRE and WILTSHIRE RAILWAY (described in 
 
 Wishaw's Analysis of 1837). Its Engineers were GILES 
 
 >CpH and E. O. TREGELLIS. Its Committee included Colonel 
 
 HENDERSON, James LACY, Henry KING, and Wm< REID. 
 
 The map shows the G. VV.R. and Southampton lines, and among 
 projects STEPHENSON'S LINE to BRIGHTON, lines from 
 BASINGSTOKE via Salisbury to BATH and EXETER, and a 
 Coast line from North of Southampton to Brighton. Colonel 
 Henderson was subsequently a South Western Director. 
 
 Prospectus of the Hampshire and Wiltshire Junction 
 Railway, with map, 2 2/ 1837 
 
 Dublin and Kilkenny Railway. 
 
 1838 141 JN 1838 objection was taken to the dispositions shown 
 
 in the SECOND REPORT, to make the Irish Railways 
 Slate Railways, and the pages below were written by a 
 Shareholder in the DUBLIN and KILKENNY RY., which had 
 received its Act as a plea for his line (via Carlow instead of 
 via Maryboro'.) 
 
 Letter to Marquis Landsdowne. By a Shareholder 
 in the Kilkenny Railway. 37 pp. 8 10/6 1838 
 
 The First Italian Railway. 
 
 837 i4ia ACCORDING to Dr. LARDNER'S list the NAPLES and 
 PORTICO line was the first Italian railway and opened Oct. 
 1839 and the line from Portico to Castelmare with branch to 
 Nocera (21 miles) followed. Below is the first prospectus. 
 " Cette brochure a paru en 1837" says the gentleman who sold it me. 
 It embraces both lines and Pompeii is a station on the latter. 
 
 Soctett^ du chemin de fer de Naples et a Castellammare 
 
 Prospectus. i6pp. 4 with good map. wrappers. 2 2/ 1837 
 
 Second Great Project for Italy. 
 
 1837-8 I4ib " ONE of the most stupendous .works of modern times " 
 said The Literary World in 1839 " is a projected railroad 
 from VENICE to MILAN connecting the seven richest and 
 most populous cities of Italy with. each other." Its length 
 was to be about 166 miles and it was expected to be able to take 1800 
 persons, 1500 tons of goods, and 1000 tons of coal daily. The prospectus 
 was published in Italian at Venice in 1837 and a short Appendix in 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
40 
 Proposed Routes continued. [History of the Lines. 
 
 1838. The map shows routes and has illustrations of trains " di prhtio 
 rango^' " di secondo rango," " delle merct" and " del bcstiame" The 
 date is that of our own first Great Trunk lines. 
 
 Strada Ferrata da Venezio a Milano (Prospectus etc.) 
 
 88pp. 4 wr. 2 2J j 837-8 
 
 Irish Railways Commissioners' Second Report. 
 
 1838 142 JfROM early reports such as the one below (ISSUED THE 
 
 YEAR THAT LONDON WAS FIRST CONNECTED BY RAILWAY 
 
 WITH THE NORTH) we get a glimpse of the railway 
 system and the rail ways, just after they had achieved a 
 decided success. The ENGINES we are told weigh 10 to 13 
 tons, the EXPENSE for ENGINE POWER is on the Liv. and 
 MAN. line a quarter of v/ the total expense (p. 89) the 
 STOCKTON and DARLN. Ky. had QUADRUPLED the LOCAL 
 TRAFFIC, and so on. The questions of GAUGE, of 
 GRADIENT, CURVES. POWER of LOCOMOTIVES, etc., are all 
 gone into, and furnish a little mine of information. 
 A capital atlas showing the then Irish and English Railways, etc., is 
 mentioned further on. 
 
 Irish Railway Commissioners' Second Report. 
 Abridged Edition. 213 pp. 2 maps. d8 cloth. 
 Very scarce. 25/ 1838 
 
 1838 i42a {THE UNABRIDGED EDN., thick folio, VERY RARE. ^3 3/ 
 
 1838 
 
 Bermirijgham's Committee for Irish Rys. 
 
 1838 143 BT THE END of 1838 a GENERAL RAILWAY COMMITTEE 
 
 was appointed at the suggestion of Thos. BERMiNGHAM,Esq. 
 to take proposed railways into consideration. It advocated 
 recourse to the LOAN SYSTEM suggested by a Commons' 
 Select Committee in 1835 * or a Govt. loan of a million sterling 
 Of lines commended by them those to BELFAST, GAL WAY, 
 KILKENNY and from LIMERICK to WATERFORD were 
 carried out by 1853. 
 
 First Report of General Railway Committee 
 [Bermingham's]. 23 pp. and map. p8 2i/ 1838 
 
 Route to Ireland Holyhead by Geo. Stephenson. 
 
 1839 144 ($EORGE STEPHENSON was altogether opposed to 
 
 PORTDYNLI.AEN, and in the following report compares the 
 difficulties of the two routes in favour of HOLYHEAD. The 
 illustrious engineer finding such difficulties as these forms a 
 strange contrast to the facilities by which the famous 
 FESTINIOG line is now worked hard by the then impossible 
 route. It is the only original report I have of GEORGE 
 STEPHENSON'S. 
 
 Stephenson, George. Report to Chester and Crewe 
 Railway Directors on the Holyhead and Portdynllean 
 Routes. p8 half calf. 2 2/ [1839] 
 
 The Irish Head Bricklayers Proposed Line. 
 
 1841 145 .1BENj\M'iN PEMBERTON, "Master of the Corporation oj 
 Brickiayei s and Plasterers," had blossomed into a full*! 
 blown Civil Engineer, possibly on the strength of his; 
 suggestion for a Railway from DUBLIN to TRIM which, 
 
4 1 
 roposed Routes continued. [History of the Lines. 
 
 together with the idea of the "GREAT CENTRAL " or 
 " GRAND JUNCTION IRISH," Mr. VIGNOLES and the Irish 
 Commissioners seemed to be about to treat with considerable 
 disrespect. In this address to his supporters mention is 
 made of Mr. Vignoles' proposed "Quixotic COLONNADE" 
 to the Kingstown Railway ; and a two hours' interview with 
 the great TELFORD. 
 
 Pemberton's Address on Railway Communication to 
 the West of Ireland. 8 2i/ *> nj * rtobnoJ l8 4 J 
 Irish State Railways. Coal and Coke. 
 14.6 /&R. BERMINGHAM collected statistical evidence in favour ' 
 of Railways in Ireland being worked by the State to avoid 
 ACCIDENTS, then frequent, and to save PARLIAMENTARY 
 EXPENSES. BELGIAN cheap fares and security from 
 accidents referred to, as also extra EMPLOYMENT, in favour 
 of the undertaking. Mr. DRUMMON'D is quoted to show 
 * 'goods might be a source of revenue as well as Passengers." 
 COAL is spoken of as only useful TO RUN 6 TO 8 MILES AN 
 HOUR at 700, per ANNUM per ENGINE, COKE would COST 
 ;i200 to 2000 and at a speed of 30 MILES AM HOUR. 
 Bermingham, Thos. Statistical Evidence for State 
 Railways in Ireland. 8 21 / 1841 
 
 North Midland, Great Northern, &c. 
 
 146!) tThe method of promoting a branch line under the auspices 
 of MR. GEORGE HUDSON, the RAILWAY KING, is well 
 shown in the fine series of autograph letters below. Many 
 companies at the time were seeking for Lincolnshire traffic, 
 the various London and York companies were seeking to get the traffic 
 with the South, and the Manchester and Leeds, the "North Midland and 
 others the traffic from Yorkshire. Mr. J. N. Brogden,ot Lincoln, ownfet 
 of? newspaper called The Locomotive ', seems to have been appointed 
 by the North Midland their chief Lincoln promoter of a line from 
 Swinton to Lincoln, and the letters include Mr. Hudson's authority to 
 him " to incur any reasonable or moderate expense," numerous letters 
 from Mr. Joseph Guy, of Gainsboro', a letter from Mr. Richard Elleson 
 (afterwards a Gt. Northern Director), letter from Brogden to Guy for 
 Mr. Hudson hinting at a grand jollification feasting, inspection of the 
 line, &c. 
 
 UHERE are also Letters from the Eastern Counties Co., Captain Lawes, 
 Mr, Close, and some touching the London lines, Mr.W. Richardson, of 
 London (for Mr. Hudson) speaking of " strangling in its birth the 
 monster infant "The DIRECT NORTHERN which had just then been 
 sanctioned, a letter from Mr. [after Sir] Cussack Roney Secy, of 
 Cambridge and Lincoln Railway, May, 1845, from Mr. R. C. Moon 
 over the Fossdyke Navigation and the famous " Loop." Included also 
 are Mr. Brogden's little bill against the North Midland for ,241 for 
 promotion, an autograph letter from Mr. Hudson as follows: 
 
 My dear Sir, York, 30 Sept. 1844. 
 
 We certainly intend to make a line from Cambridge to Lincoln. I 
 have no objection to unite with any party in making it. This you mnat 
 treat as perfectly confidential. I am, yours, etc., [signed], Geo. Hudson, 
 and many letters of great interest in connection with Mr. Hudson, the 
 Great Northern and the Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and North Midland 
 Railways at date. 
 
 An Album of 125 Letters Addressed to Mr. Brogden, 
 of Lincoln, relating to Mr. Hudson, the Origin of the 
 Gt., Northern, etc. ^5 s/ i^44 : 5 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
42 
 
 Proposed Routes continued. [History of the Lines. 
 
 WEAR VALLEY RAILWAY. 
 1844 1460 /Dbr. Dixon seems to have retired from'the BIRMINGHAM 
 and DERBY line possibly on its amalgamation into the Mid- 
 land, and below is his plan for the WEAR VALLEY line 
 found among his papers. 
 
 Wear Valley Railway. Coloured Plan and section of 
 intended line and of the Bishopley Branch. 4ft x 2^ 10/6 
 
 1844 
 
 London and Birm. Northampton and 
 Peterbroro Railway. 
 
 1844 146(1 JN early days NORTHAMPTON was on the direct road 
 
 from LONDON to PETERBORO. The little line joining the 
 two towns was opened in June 1845 (vid'e Railway 
 Chronicle June yth). It was the second branch of the 
 LONDON and BIRM. whose Directors went down to open the 
 "SINGLE WAY TELEGRAPH LINE." The following pages 
 are remarks on the Commons Committee Report. 
 Northampton and Peterboro Railway Bill. 8 io/6 
 
 [circa 1844] 
 
 Irish Railways (Possible Merchandise Traffic.) 
 
 1845 147 3f ROM this little publication we get a very clear description 
 
 and criticism of the famous RAILWAY DEPARTMENT of the 
 BOARD of TRADE, and of the IRISH RAILWAYS proposed up 
 to this date. It states that English competition by canah 
 and carriers is so great that Railways piobably pay only ONE 
 per cent, on Merchandise traffic. 
 
 Irish Railways and the Board of Trade, with map. 
 66 pp. p8 15; 1845 
 
 Two Routes. Dublin to Belfast. 
 
 1845 148 JN choosing the route from BELFAST to DUBLIN an 
 
 INLAND line via ARMAGH was spoken of in opposition to 
 the direct line. Mr. H. L. LINDSAY, C.E., of Armagh, 
 was a stout supporter of the former and considered it would 
 
 be BETTER to FORFEIT ^7OO,OOO to the DROGHEDA 
 
 COMPANY THAN MAKE THEIRS THE MAIN LINE. 
 [Lindsay] Railway Communication from Dublin to the 
 North. 8 is/ 1845 
 
 Metropolitan Termini. 
 
 1846 149 " HXHiLL THE EXTENSION OF RAILWAYS into'the Centre of 
 
 the METROPOLIS afford sufficient benefit to the PUBLIC to 
 
 COMPENSATE for the SACRIFICE of PROPERTY, the 
 
 Interruption of Important Thoroughfares, and Interference 
 with other Plans of Improvement " became a leading 
 question in 1846. A Railway Commission was appointed 
 and this volume gives the Coloured Plans, etc., of 
 proposals put forward by the different railways. 
 Maps, Plans, etc., of Metropolitan Railways. Very 
 rare. 427 l8 4 6 
 
 WESTERN INDIA. 
 
 1846 150 HHE English Government authorized the construction of 
 two lines of railway in India in 1849. Three years previous- 
 ly Mr. WILLIAMSON, at the request of the GREAT INDIAN 
 
43 
 Proposed Routes continued. [History of the Lines. 
 
 PENINSULAR RAILWAY Co.,, of which Lord Wharncliffe 
 was Chairman, published these 38 pages, pointing out the 
 military and commercial importance of the proposed line. 
 Williamson, Thos. (of Bombay). Two Letters on 
 Railway Communication in Western India. 8 half 
 calf. 10/6 London 1846 
 
 A GREAT COAL RAILWAY. 
 
 1846 151 H BOLD SUGGESTION in 1846 produced excitement even 
 among SAILORS. Some influential men proposed a GREAT 
 RAILWAY from NEWCASTLE ON TYNE to LONDON (going 
 on a principle supported by the Board oj Trade to separate 
 Passengers from Goods). So alarming was the suggestion 
 that the following 40 paged brochure was published to show 
 its national danger. 10,000 BRITISH SAILORS " sea bred and 
 element nu-tsed" it said would be discharged and " supplemented by 
 ENGINE DRIVERS and STOKERS," (!) and the names of the 
 unpatriotic promoters were named for universal execration. It was 
 probably the largest English mineral railway evet proposed. 
 
 Ships and Railways. 8 10/6 Longman 1846 
 
 EASTERN INDIA. 
 
 5 152-3 /H3R. ANDREW was perhaps the earliest authority on 
 Indian Railways. In connecting Calcutta with the far 
 north west he proposed using the GANGES NAVIGATION 
 for the southern part and his opinions prevailed on the 
 Commissioners. lie analysed the railway capabilities of 
 INDIA, and criticised the different railways proposed. 
 In a third edition he added considerably to the work, and the 
 Observer spoke of it as of inestimable value. 
 [Andrew, W.P.] Indian Railways. By an Old 
 Indian Postmaster. 2nd ed. i7ipp. d8 10/6 1846 
 3rd ed. i5opp. d8 10/6 1848 
 
 Workington and Cockermouth Railway. 
 1848 i53a JBELOW is a plan of the COCKERMOUTH & WORKINGTON 
 Railway formerly in the possession of Mr. JOHN DlXON. 
 It is undated and I think may be earlier than 1848. 
 Plan showing- route of Cockermouth Railway. 
 Mr. Dixon's Copy. io/ [circa 1848] 
 
 Eastern India and Sir Macdonald Stephenson. 
 
 154 g-N 1848 the EAST INDIAN and the GREAT WESTERN were 
 almost the sole survivors of the projected Bengal railways. Mr. 
 MACDONALD STKPHENSON had desired MR.- BOURNE to 
 
 enquire into the probable traffic and profits of the EAST INDIAN 
 LINE. This he did (also taking in other railways) and came to the 
 conclusion that as money could bring a safe 8% in India highroads 
 must be used to make railways at less cost and at greater profit. 
 
 Bourne, John, C.E. Railways in India. i2ypp. d8 
 10/6 1848 
 
 WEST CORK RAILWAYS. 
 185O] 155 NINETY little printed plates below give particulars of 
 the sections, with OWNER'S NAME, etc. 
 Conybeare's Land Plans and Contract Sections on 
 the West Cork Railways. Oblong 8 5/ [Circa 1850] 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
44 
 Pioposed Routes continued. [History of the Lines. 
 
 IRELAND (Interesting Estimates). 
 
 1849 156 JN advocating railways for Ireland the following pages gave 
 
 a detailed estimate for CONSTRUCTION at ^9000 PER MILE, 
 pointed to the enormous fish traffic increase of Birmingham 
 since 1827, said that railways COULD INCREASE VALUE OF 
 A 200 ACRE FARM 100 PER AN., and estimated taxation 
 of English railways at ^7 to 13 per acre. Advocated, 
 BKREHAVEN as a harbour. 
 
 Preston, G. P., C.E. Letter to Lord Russell on 
 Expediency of Railways in Ireland. 4opp. loose. 5/ 1849 
 
 European and North American Railway. 
 
 1850 157 CHE YEAR before the State of Maine became the 
 
 Teetotallers' Paradise the people of PORTLAND pe- 
 titioned their legislature to make enquiries as to the 
 feasibility of a railway through MAINE and A LINE OF 
 STEAMERS from NOVA SCOTIA to the new Midland 
 Great Western Railway of Ireland at GALWAY. The 
 Petition, a full account of the succeeding GREAT RAILROAD 
 CONVENTION of July 31, 1850, at Portland, local meetings, cor- . 
 respondence, proposal of the Eu>*ot>ean and North American Rdil~ 
 ivay (now the ST. JOHN and MAINE RAILWAY), and its Act, 
 together with the opinions of all leading Americans concerned, make 
 up 172 pages of considerable historical interest. 
 
 Plan for Shortening New York and London Passage, 
 
 Proceedings of Railway Commission, and Charter etc. of 
 European and North American Railway. 25/ Portland 1850 
 
 INDIAN RAILWAYS. (Samuels Carriages). 
 
 1850 158 GHE author of the work below thought railways would not act 
 as a panacea for the ills of the COTTON TRADE ; he thought 
 certain deviations of the GREAT PENINSULA RY. essential 
 as also certain modifications of construction, INCLUDING 
 THE USE OF MR. SAMUEL'S FAMOUS LITTLE STEAM 
 CARRIAGE (as first run on Eastern Counties Railway}. 
 He objected to twenty tons of dead weight for one of 
 paying load. 
 
 Grant, Lt. Col. Bombay Cotton and Indian Railways. 
 I5opp. and map. l5/ 1$5P 
 
 ~ ;.>.-..-...." 
 
 OTHER FAMOUS ROUTES. 
 
 AMONG WORKS RELATING TO OTHER FAMOUS PROPOSED 
 
 ROUTES ARE : 
 
 1852 159 WILLIAMS, J. I. The Isthmus of TEHUANTEPIC, being 
 
 results of a survey for a railroad between the Atlantic and 
 Pacific. 295pp. With coloured plates, d8 10/6 1852 
 
 1857 160 ANDREW, W. O. Memoir cf the EUPHRATES VALLEY 
 ROUTE. 26ypp. With map. d8 10/6 1857 
 
 1857 161 Forrester, Thos. On a proposed .railway from the 
 TCHERNAVODA (on the Danube) to KUSTENDJIE (on the 
 Black Sea). Coloured frontispiece^ map. etc. 226pp. d8* 
 7/6 '857 
 
 INDIA (Andrew v. Stephenson). 
 
 1853 162 IN the work below Mr. Andrew opposes the East Indian 
 
Proposed Routes continued. [History, of the Lines. 
 
 Railway as suggested by Mr. Macdonald Stephenson and 
 supported by the Commissioners. 
 Andrew, W. P. Railways in Bengal. 49pp. 8 7/61853 
 
 Bristol and South Wales. 
 
 L845 i62A {HE atlas below shows the plan and section of the 
 Junction line to join BRISTOL with SOUTH WALES and to 
 get over the round-about route via GLOUCESTER. Its 
 Company was amalgamated with the GT. WESTERN in 1868. 
 Bristol, South Wales & Southampton Union Railway. 
 Mr. Blackwell's Atlas of twelve plates giving Plan and 
 Section and dated Nov. 1854. Abt. 24" x 18". 25/ 1854 
 
 Grand Trunk Railway of Canada. The 
 St Lawrence Bridge. 
 
 1856 i62B {he pages, below give Mr. Liddell's report for a bridge 
 over the St. Lawrence to cost no more than 400,000, and 
 the counter reports of ROBERT STEPHENSON, I. K. BRUNEL, 
 CLARK and Moss for the VICTORIA BRIDGE to cost 
 1,400,000. 
 
 Calmont. R. Letter to the Shareholders and the 
 above Reports on the St. Lawrence Bridge. 77pp. 
 4 wrappers. 10/6 1856 
 
 Stratfbrd-upon-Avon Railway. 
 
 L856 1620 TldHEN the proposal came for making the STRATFORD 
 line from Hatton it was also proposed that passenger trains 
 should run over the old STRATFORD and MORETON line 
 to join at Moreton what was at that time the Oxford, 
 Worcester and Wolverhampton Ry. There was to be a 
 little branch to Ship.ston and thus James' project for the first big 
 English railway (from Stratford to London) would have been at work 
 as far as Oxford. 
 
 Prospectus of Stratford Railway (containing long list o( 
 Promoters etc.) and map showing proposed course and 
 connections). 21 / 1856 
 
 INDIA. Stephenson's Triumph. 
 
 L857 163 BT the time of the INDIAN MUTINY Mr. HYDE CLARKE, 
 who laid aown a system of TELEGRAPHS in India in 1849 
 wrote advocating the NORTHERN BENGAL RAILWAY, of 
 which and the whole BENGAL system Sir MACDONALD 
 STEPHENSON was the first projector (as was Mr. JOHN 
 CHAPMAN of the BOMBAY, and Mr. J. H. HEATH of the 
 
 MADRAS systems) and showed that railways had been after all 
 able to compete with rivers, and practically proved that GEORGE 
 , j ^TEPHENSON'S NAMESAKE had been, and ivas, the greatest 
 
 authority for Indian Railways, 
 
 Clarke, Hyde. Colonization, Defence, and Railways 
 
 in our Indian Empire. With map. 244pp. d8 10/6 1857 
 
 INDIA Kottree and Moo I tan 
 
 869 rf>4 jflOANY years after his first work Mr. Andrew wrote on the Indian 
 Railway System, particularly advflcattni: the completion of the 
 " Missing Link " between Kattrcc and Mooltan. ,., . . 
 
 Andrew, W. P. Letter to the Secretary for India on the 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
4 6 
 Description of Lines. History of the Lines. 
 
 completion of the Indus Valley Railway System. I24pp. 
 maps. 5/ 1869 
 
 EUPHRATES VALLEY ROUTE. 
 
 1876 *65 TTHE following pages give a popular account by one who watched the 
 course of events since Andrew's proposal of 1857. 
 McBean, S. England . . . and India connected by a 
 Railway. *43PP* and map. p8 4/6 1876 
 
 Inscriptions of tbe Xines, IDiews, {pictures, Sic. 
 
 Blenkinsopp Engine. 
 
 1811 i65a !H VIEW of a BLENKINSOPP'S LOCOMOTIVE pulling three 
 
 coal waggons is shown below. 
 
 Blenkinsbpp's Loco mounted and framed in black and 
 
 gold frame 12" x lo" 2i/ 
 
 Large Photos of Early Locomotives, etc. 
 
 QHESE include Stockton and Darlington's "LOCO- 
 MOTION" the same Co.'s "BELLE VUE" 1859 and 
 The LOWTHER, the famous old Wylam Loco PUFFING 
 BILLY and three other photos from same owner. 
 Seven Large Photos of Locos etc. Mounted 15x12 
 
 2I/ 
 
 Stockton and Darlington Railway. (Photos). 
 
 1825 i65c {THE notice of the OPENING to take place on 2yth Sept. 
 
 " 1825 and also the notice that the "EXPERIMENT" Coach 
 
 which commenced travelling 10 Oct. 1825 will continue to 
 
 run daily, appear on two photographs mounted on a card 
 
 below. 
 
 Card with Photographs of Stockton and Darlington 
 First Notices (mounted) 14" x 10^" io/ 
 
 Birm. and Liverpool Railroad (Engraving). 
 1825 i65d {THE little scene below represented what was to be when 
 the BIRMINGHAM and LIVERPOOL RAILROAD Co. HAD 
 succeeded in getting their Act and in making their line. The 
 artist has here given a picturesque country bright with the 
 varied tints of hills, woods, streams, and cottages past which two trains 
 are passing one a few yards after the other. The locomotives are 
 apparently consuming their own smoke and all details of cranks are 
 omitted but the engine driver lolls in a kind of hammock between the 
 engine and the water barrel wagon (far from any guiding rod) while 
 other waggons are carrying flour, cotton, soldiers, cannon, baggage, 
 cattle and other merchandize, the passengers only place being on the 
 top of the baggage. Two spectators stand close to the line. The date 
 of the picture is even before the date of opening of the Stockton and 
 Darlington line. 
 
 A Coloured Engraving, dedicated to the Proprietors 
 of the Birm. and L'pool Railroad by S. and J. Fuller and 
 published 30 March 1825. Size 2^ft. x I in oak frame 
 (with glass). Extremely rare. 5 5/ 
 
 Liverpool and Manchester Railway. 
 
 THE COLOURED VIEWS (Book.) 
 1831 1656 2&ND now I come to what are unquestionably among the 
 
 RAREST AND BY FAR THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF ALL THE 
 EARLY RAILWAY BECORDS viz. the COLOURED VlEWS on 
 
47 
 
 Description of Lines continued. History of the Lines. 
 
 the LIVERPOOL and MANCHESTER LINE. For many years 
 
 I have been a buyer of railway books but I have never before even seen 
 absolutely perfect copies of these fine works. The first set is entitled 
 " Six Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway with 
 a plate of the Coaches, Machines etc. from drawings on the spot by 
 Mr. T. T. Bury 1831," and the second bears the same title with the 
 omission of the word "Six" and the addition of the words "with 
 descriptive particulars serving as a guide to travellers on the railway " 
 and also dated 1831. There are altogether thirteen different views 
 bound together with eight pages of letterpress (which incidentally 
 describe the better class carriages as being in the shape of coaches and 
 named Queen Adelaide " " Wellington " etc. each seat therein being 
 numbered.) Every plate is in spotlessly beautiful condition and both 
 sets are published by Ackermann. 
 
 Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester 
 Railway. 2 vols bound in I (14^ x 12") 10 io/ 1831 
 
 Liverpool and Manchester Railway (Booh) 
 
 831 l65f JT is rare to find published descriptions of a railway 
 written by a leading officer of a great Company. But the 
 chronicles of the LIVERPOOL and MANCHESTER have been 
 more luxuriously recorded than those of any Co. Its line 
 has been illustrated by Ackerrnan's beautiful plates and its history 
 recorded by a prince of the old railway world, a prince whose own 
 doings are historical. In the work below Mr. Booth opens with a 
 tribute to Mr. William James the first projector of the line, speaks of 
 the visit of Messrs. Sanders, Ellis, Kennedy and himself to see George 
 Stephenson's Locomotives at Newcastle, of the formation of the Co 
 20 May, 1824 ; shows us the Co.'s first prospectus 29 Oct. with Chas.' 
 Lawrence as Chairman and as Engineer, the attempt to get the Act 
 the failure, the second prospectus with the Kennies as Engineers the 
 success of that bill. He then gives us an account of the formation 
 of the line, of the re-election of George Stephenson instead of the 
 Kennies, the stipulations and particulars of the famous Locomotive 
 Contest, etc. io4pp. and illustrations of the line and of the Rocket 
 and Novelty. A very fine old record. 
 
 Booth, Henry. Account of the Liverpool and 
 
 Manchester Railway. d8 2nd ed. 42! 1831 
 
 Liverpool and Manchester Railway. 
 
 Col. Engraving (Unframed Aquatint.) 
 
 333 i65g {THE little view below shews " The Traveller," " Times," 
 Marquis of Stafford and " Treasurer" carriages followed by 
 the Royal Mail (the latter apparently a passenger carriage 
 having no side windows and coloured red). A footman sits in 
 front of first carriage facing the engine, the luggage is atop 
 the carnages, the mail has only one box atop and behind it 
 sits the redcoated (?) postman while lastly comes a private 
 carriage in a truck with its occupants and the whole " first 
 class train " is drawn by the "JUPITER " locomotive with 
 ordinary tender. The second class train has open carriages 
 some with doors crowded with passengers those without 
 doors not so crowded. All have a slight covering on top 
 and the tender of the NORTH STAR Locomotive has its 
 big- water barrel in the more ancient style. 
 Glazed Coloured Engraving of a First, and also of a 
 Second Class, Train travelling on the Liverpool and 
 Manchester Ry. 2 6"xio" 2 2/ Ackermann 1833 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
4 8 
 Description of Lines continued. History of the Lines. 
 
 London and Greenwich (Pamphlet). 
 1836 i65h &LL publications relating. to the LONDON & GREENWICH 
 RAILWAY (the first of the Metropolitan lines) are excessively 
 scarce. The following small popular description speaks of 
 the thousand archways, of the Act obtained in 1833, of 
 Landmann the Engineer, of the then terminus at Deptford. 
 It has a frontispiece shewing the railway. 
 London and Greenwich Railway Guide. 8pp. and 
 frontispiece, post 8 wrappers. EXTREMELY RARE. 2 2/ 
 
 Mansell, 1836 
 LONDON AND GREENWICH. 
 
 1838 1651 tlHE engraving above represents the CURIOUS COPPER 
 TICKET used on the GREENWICH LINE (opened 1838) 
 Greenwich Ticket. 21 / 
 VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHS, Etc. 
 
 1653 !H LARGE photograph of ROBT. STEPHENSON, a view of 
 the FRIEND'S MEETING HOUSE at DARLINGTON 1838, and 
 an engraving of JOHN DIXON'S " RESIDENCE " at Cockfield 
 (Durham), making an interesting group. 
 The Three (each about 15" x 12") 21 / 
 
 BELGIAN RAILWAYS (Booh.) 
 
 1843 i65k J HAVE referred elsewhere to Mr. Dobson's " Historical, 
 
 Statistical and Scientific Account of the Railways of 
 Belgium from 1834 to 1842 " [see No. . ]. It is here in its 
 separate form. 
 Dobson, Edw. Railways of Belgium. d8 10/6 1843 
 
 North Midland Railway (Views.) 
 165! ^HE New St. Bridge, Belper and the entrance to the 
 Mulford Tunnel with signalman and early engine are 
 represented by zincograph process below. 
 Two Zincograph Views on North Midland Railway. 
 22" x 15" io/ 
 Chester and Holy head Railway (Book.) 
 
 1844 165111 {HE details of BRIDGES and other works as constructed 
 
 under Messrs. GEO. and ROBERT STEPHENSON make up the 
 j oeU album of 32 plates below. 
 
 Chester and Holyhead Railway. Details of Bridges 
 etc. Oblong folio. 2$/ 1844 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
49 
 
 Description of Companies. 
 
 Photographs of Viaducts. 
 
 i65n JSELOW are some large mounted photographs (16x18) 
 showing the Deepdale and Hownesgill (Stockton and 
 Darlington) Viaducts in course of completion ami completed. 
 Eight Photographs of Viaducts. 42; 
 
 fbtstorg of Companies. 
 London and Birmingham Railway. 
 
 166 21BOVE is a little oval shaped ivory "TICKET." It must 
 have been issued when only the TRING portion of the line 
 was opened and was doubtless a proud possession of one of 
 the first men to go to London by a free railway pass. 
 London and Birmingham Directors. Small Oval 
 Ivory Pass. 33; 
 
 837 
 
 London and Birmingham and Parkin's System. 
 
 84O 167 B LETTER to Mr. GLYN in which Mr. CREED is referred 
 to as " this jocose functionary " and as " your Hudibrastic 
 Secretary," in which Mr. BURY is abused, an Engine driver 
 gets apoplexy, and a G.W.R. driver fell asleep, URGES THE 
 ADOPTION of PARKIN'S WOOD WHEELS and FAMOUS 
 WOODEN RAILWAY (the former having been tried on the 
 ''THUNDERER" (L. & M. Ry.) and supports Barlow 
 and Brunei's opposition to rails on isolated blocks, and the 
 avoidance of bank engines. 
 Parkin's Letter to Glyn. i6pp. p8 10/6 1840 
 
 TAFF VALE. 
 
 1 68 ^AFF VALE was the first Welsh line to get into ' 'Bradshaw' 
 and it had some politics in 1840. Now the T.F. wanted to 
 work in connection with some ELY Docks but the " wicked 
 Marquis " (of Bute) had others at CARDIFF which they must 
 use or have his parliamentary opposition. They talked it 
 over when they met and made the meeting historic BY 
 DINING IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Captain Smith on the side 
 ol the Marquis here speaks up for the Bute Docks. Some 
 of STEPHENSON'S Estimates too are here much preferred to 
 BRUNEL'S). It is, I believe, the line (modernized) ON 
 WHICH TRRVITHICK RAN THE FIRST LOCOMOTIVE. 
 Smith, Capt. ) On the Port of Cardiff and the Report 
 of TaffVale Railway Directors. IHustd. d8 cl. 10/6 1840 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
 840 
 
50 
 
 Description of Companies continued. 
 
 Maryport and Carlisle. 
 A Contractor's Payment Refused. 
 1341 169 3-T was a poor railway in old days that could not run into 
 a law case about something. The MARYPORT & CARLISLE 
 started their career BY REFUSING TO PAY a CONTRACTOR 
 FOR His WORK. GEORGE STEPHENSON gave evidence for 
 the Contractor, and the claim here detailed ended with 
 obtaining ^3744 fr m tne Company. 
 Irving z>. Maryport Railway. 76pp. 8 sewn. 10/611841] 
 
 THE SOUTH-EASTERN. 
 
 1845 170 {THE So. EASTERN had 4.^ millions invested and found 
 TO l% millions more required to live and do well. The NORTH 
 
 1854 KENT was its btte noire. It was their particular abomination. 
 And as branches (or "suckers" as they were called) gradually 
 increased many a battle royal waxed and waned over them. The 
 following papers deal with the Board of Trade and the Kentish 
 Railway Schemes (1845) ; So. Eastern Directors Statement of Position 
 and Projects 1845-6; A Reply to that Statement (i3 4 6); Mr. Austins 
 Select Committee Speech on the Kent lines (1846) ; the So. Easterns 
 explanation to Commissioners on the accusations of the Brighton Co. ; 
 the So. Eastern Parl. statement promoting five lines and opposing two 
 (1846) ; Ditto 1847 promoting five and opposing one ; and the pamphlet 
 of Lancastriensis on " The South Eastern Crisis " (1854)- With all its 
 troubles however its Dividends never seem to have actually failed 
 though it was said some were paid out of capital. ^ 
 
 So Eastern Railway. Eight historical pamphlets. 
 2 2/ 1845-54 
 
 Newcastle and Berwick. 
 
 1845 171 {THE line proposed in the plan below was to run from the 
 Tarrow Slake (North Shields) and keeping a mile or more 
 from tHe coast to join the Berwick line three miles east oi 
 MORPETH. It must have been one of the first projects ol 
 the short lived NEWCASTLE and BERWICK Co. who made 
 the THIRD PORTION of the ENGLISH EAST COAST ROUTE. 
 Newcastle and Berwick Railway, East Coast Lme : 
 Blyth, Seaton Sluice, and other branches. Colouied plar 
 (abt. 3ft. x 2) 12/6 Circa 184' 
 
 Newcastle and Darlington Railway. 
 
 1845 172 {THE little memento of the N. & D. below consists of 7j 
 rules for the Co.'s servants " to be read over every month 
 and many signatures. 
 
 General Rules [for] . . I Engmemen. Guards 
 Switchmen, Policemen, Platelayers ... on the Newc 
 and Darl. Ry. and at end about 72 signatures probably c 
 the old employees. l8pp. printed, and M.S. pp. 10/6 184 
 
 London and So. Western Railway. 
 1846-5O 173 S- WESTERN OFFICIAL PAPERS (1846-50) refer t 
 the following important matters : 1846, Laying a NARRO^ 
 GAUGE from LONDON to LANDS END, and the PORTSMOUTJ 
 ATMOSPHERIC Ry. ; 1847 FAILURE to get west of Exeter 
 1848 Opening of Waterloo Station and DEVONSHIRE an 
 WINDSOR district EXTENSIONS SALISBURY and YEOVI 
 extension, PROXY VOTES given, proposed AMALGAMS 
 
5* 
 
 Description of Companies continued. 
 
 TION of So. WESTERN, NORTH WESTERN and GREAT 
 WESTERN LINES, 1849 Directors accused of DISHONESTY, 
 1850 Mr. GOOCH retires to another Company. INCOME of 
 principal officers to vary with Co.'s Revemte. 
 London and So. Western. Thirteen Official Papers 
 referring to above matters. 307 
 
 London and North Western Incorporation. 
 1846 174 JBELOW is THE ORIGINAL act for the INCORPORATION of 
 the LONDON and NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. (Curiously 
 Mr. GLYN at the first meeting of the Joint Co. expressed a 
 doubt whether they would pay the high dividends of the 
 components). It was THE MOST IMPORTANT RAILWAY 
 
 AMALGAMATION THAT HAD TAKEN PLACE. 
 
 London and North Western Original Act of 
 Amalgamation. 42/ 1846 
 
 G.W.R. tries to secure the So. West. Route 
 to Exeter. 
 
 *> 175 UHERE WAS APPARENTLY no knowing what even the 
 larger companies might do at any minute in that year of 
 mania 1845. The GREAT WESTERN had an agreement of 
 Peace with the So. WESTERN but still the latter woke up 
 one morning to hear of the INTENTION of THE G.W.R TO 
 MAKE a NEW LINE TO EXETER(!) Thereupon the" So. 
 WESTERN began to secure for themselves what they 
 considered should be their route. And the following Letter 
 results. 
 
 Letter to So. Western Shareholders on Differences 
 with Great Western. 8 is/ 
 
 G.W.R. Cost of the Broad Guage. 
 
 1846 176 '. s. D." in tackling the Broad Gauge and the G.W.R. 
 remarked that in no other Co. was there more of the 
 political element and so little of the mercantile, stated that 
 SHARES 230 IN AUG. were now (in DEC.) 145, that the 
 G.W.R. cost ^"57,800 per mile and the GRAND JUNCTION 
 27,700 that the G.W.R. OWES more by ^3700 per mile 
 than the GJ. cost, and that since the " Battle of the 
 
 Gauges" the G.W.R.LIABILITIES AMOUNT to ^20,000 000(!) 
 
 The Broad Gauge. The Bane of the Great Western 
 Co. ByL.S.D. 57pp. 8 i 5 / l84 6 
 
 G.W.R. 
 1846 177 SEE also under Broad Gauge. 
 
 South Western Ry. Exeter Main Line. 
 
 lys^JBKLow is the famous speech of Mr. Cockburn on the 
 SALISBURY and YEOVIL, EXETER YEOVIL and DORCHESTER 
 and twootherlinesinwhichspeechhelaysbeforethe Committee 
 of the HOUSE of COMMONS the CLAIMS of the SOUTH 
 WESTERN TO MAKE A LINE TO EXETER, and asserts that 
 the Great Western would not make the line if they got the 
 power. The speech is printed in large type and among the 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham: 
 
52 
 
 Description of Companies continued. 
 
 many items of interest it records (p. 105) the "signal anc 
 
 disastrous failure " of the ATMOSPHERIC PRINCIPLE 
 
 up to date. 
 
 Speech of Mr. Cockburn for the L. & S. W. line to 
 JTiaq-S*! I:Exeter etc. I75pp. large type, d8 2l/ 1847 
 
 Reports on Companies' Biils. 
 
 1847 179 1Ro\v come the Reports of the Commissioners of Railways 
 referring to the Bills of very numerous lines dated March 
 April and May 1847. They give many important links in 
 the history of the Companies. 
 
 Reports of Commissioners of Railways relating to 
 Gt. Northern, So. Eastern, Ipswich, So. Western, Eastern 
 Counties, Glasgow and Carlisle, Ayr, etc. folio. 25/ 1847 
 
 G.W.R. The Famous Robberies. 
 
 184-7 180 3 N 1846 there were a series of GIGANTIC ROBBERIES of. 
 luggage from the G.W.R. stations. The Co.'s servants 
 were suspected and Mr. NASH, Manager to the Co.'s 
 Solicitors, urged by the Co., went to great expense and 
 trouble 10 get to the bottom of the matter, finally securing the conviction 
 of some chief offenders, while the Co- discharged one of its principal 
 clerks for not giving evidence. Mr. Nash however incurred an action 
 for trespass and also lost his ' berth ' over it and the G.W.R. arranged 
 then to "back out " of the affair and left him in a mess. The following 
 pages give an account of this very mysterious affair, together with some 
 extraordinary revelations and confessions as to the robberies. 
 
 Railway Robberies. The Chief Justice's Summing up 
 
 in Wareham v. Prance, Nash, and Collar d, together with 
 the Confessions of the Depredators and a special pamphlet 
 published by the Railway Record. iO4X2ipp. 8 and 18 
 7/6 1847 
 
 The Great Northern Railway. 
 
 184-7 181 ,is the railway system itself rose with the first Mania so 
 the last great 'English Railway rose with the last great 
 Mania. So too the opposition to the GREAT NORTHERN was 
 equalled only by the early opposition to the railway system 
 itself. Week by week and year by year the Railway Times 
 
 belief. Opposition however arose from all quarters till the great 
 Company found itself saddled to start wilh with 452,620 for 
 preliminary expenses (!) "But," said its chairman, Mr.^Denison, 
 " there never was such a contest fought in Parliament before!!' Anxiety 
 however had by no means ended there and the reports below give 
 a vivid picture of this rorrfantic Company rising amidst all the 
 excitement and suspicions of the Mania period and through the days of 
 the great Hudson crisis guided by the noble Denison that marvellous 
 chairman who combining so well the sauviterin motto vnti*. the fortiter 
 in re through bitter opposition without and matchless roguery within 
 brought it at last to a sound financial footing and enabled men to fly by 
 the fastest trains in the world along the magnificent trunk line which 
 had at last become the nearest between the metropolis of England and 
 that of Scotland. 
 
 Great Northern Railway Reports and Proceedings 
 from August 184710 1853. 2 2/ 
 
Description of Companies continued! 
 
 Midland Railway. 
 
 Specifications. Nott. and Mansfield. 1847 
 184-7 182 COPY of the MIDLAND RAILWAY Co.'s SPECIFICATION 
 work to. be executed on the NOTTINGHAM and MANSFIELD 
 RAILWAY (called the Nottingham Contract}* A foolscap 
 folio MS. book covered in red leather bearing above 
 the name JOHN UNDERWOOD the date AUGUST 1847. The 
 line was to run from Rings Meadows near Nottingham to a 
 point in the parish of Butweil 4 miles, 19 chains, from the 
 starting point. 
 
 Nottingham and Mansfield Specification. 21 / 
 Eastern Counties Railway. Rating. 
 
 1848 183 JN Mr. COOKE'S Letter io Mr. WADDINGTON he refers 
 
 to rating being estimated on the cost of the moveable stock, 
 to his assessment of the COLCHESTER line at ^653 per mile, 
 to railway renting, stock depreciation etc. 
 Cooke, Layton. Observations on Renting and 
 Rating Railways, i5pp. 8 7/6 1848 
 
 York Newcastle aiuft Berwick Railway and 
 The Hudson Crisis. 
 
 1849 184 BETWEEN 1836 and the terrible days of the Hudson 
 
 Crisis the- " Great North of England Riilway Co" had 
 been able to make their line only from YORK to DARLINGTON 
 two other Companies (to Newcastle and thence to Berwick} had 
 complied the connection to SCOTLAND. The three had then 
 been miialgamated into the '-YORK NEWCASTLE and 
 BERWICK " and had become owners of a SUNDERLAND- 
 DOCK. The official reports and other papers below 
 commencing in 1847 indicate grumbling about the shares of 
 the old Companies. * / might ha7>e made a fortune out of 
 them biit I did not make a sixpence " replied Mr. HUDSON. 
 At various meetings ha held out hopes of greatly increased traffic by 
 the completion of the Tyne and Tweed bridges and the purchase of Jhe 
 line from Newcastle to Carlisle and Maryport. By March 1840 
 however the first COMMITTEE of INVESTIGATION had been, 
 appointed and as the days wore on ,7,185 was said to have been 
 overcharged on one account, and over ,100,000 on another till in 
 October came the final assertion that the Company's Accounts had been 
 falsified to the extent of ^121,924 io 3 (!) Red ruin spread, the 
 Railway King " fell and all men were certain that George Hudson 
 was the biggest rogue who had ever tried " to make things pleasant." 
 
 York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway. Official 
 
 Reports showing the apparently SATISFACTORY POSITION of 
 the Company, the breaking out ot Committees of INVESTIG- 
 ATION, York NEWSPAPER REPORTS, the actual charge of 
 FALSIFICATION against Mr. HUDSON, and the CAREER of 
 the Co. AFTER the DEPOSITION OF THE "KING." Altogether 
 about two dozen papers as received by a shareholder at that 
 critical time. ^3 3/ 
 
 York and North Midland. 
 
 THE GREAT HUDSON CRISIS. 
 
 1849 185 <HE YORK and NORTH MIDLAND running fr@m 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
54 
 
 Description of Companies continued. 
 
 Normanton to York was said to be GEORGE HUDSON'S 
 "pet line." Among the papers below THE FIRST 
 REPORT OF ITS COMMITTEE OF INVESTIGATION in July 
 '49 claimed ^3,196 WRONG with the HULL and SELBY 
 SHARES and that at least 70,000 had been HUNG ON TO 
 CAPITAL to " make things more pleasant" as the Press put it. THE 
 SECOND REPORT in September showed 12,000 shares disposed of 
 by Mr. Hudson, "when and how he pleased," " no books," " directors 
 dummies satisfied with liberal allotments and good premiums ; 
 " .90,000 belonging to the Co. twelve months in Mr. Hudson's hands 
 without Directors knowledge " ; " ^9000 overcharged for Rails " and so 
 on. [In the middle of September HerapatKs Journal reported 
 "/5Q3 694 as representing A FEW OF THE CHAIRMAN'S CHEESE 
 PARINGS AND CANDLE ENDS " FROM THE TWO YORK 
 COMPANIES]. And the THIRD REPORT said that the 
 Manchester and Leeds Co. had agreed to get out of any loss on the 
 ' Hull and Selby lease so that the Y. and N. M. R. would suffer a loss 
 of ^17,000 per year by themselves and that Mr. Hudson had landed 
 the Co- into a million pounds of expenditure : or as the Press had it 
 ^35,000 to support his Telegraph Co., ,560,000 to improve his Market 
 Weightoti Estate and ^468,000 to buy the Whitby and Pickering line 
 to become M. P. for Whitby. 
 
 York and North Midland. A dozen Official Reports 
 showing the Co. at peace under Mr. Hudson, the 
 rising storm, the famous reports of the COMMITTEE of 
 INVESTIGATION into the Company's affairs, the angry 
 dispute about the new Chairman (Mr. Meek, Lord Mayor 
 of York) and the progress after the storm under Mr. H. S. 
 THOMPSON ,(21 Feb. '48 to 28 Aug. '50). 3 3/ 
 
 London & Nor. West. Ry. 
 ACTION BY CROUCH, THE CARRIER. 
 
 1849 186 3-N 1849 an action was brought by one CROUCH, a Carrier, 
 against the L. and N. W. Ry. for parcels lost and an 
 overcharge (6/8 for i/io). IT WAS ALLEGED THAT THE Co. 
 claimed immunity from breaking open, detention, and 
 capricious charges and TRIED PURPOSELY TO RUIN 
 CARRIERS. 8 pp. 8 sewn, i/ 1849 
 
 Great Southern and Western Railway. 
 
 1849 187 " {HE SECOND CITY OF IRELAND" (Cork) was joined to 
 DUBLIN in October, 1849, by the slow going GREAT 
 SOUTHERN and WESTERN, and below is a LIST of the 
 SHAREHOLDERS, their residences, the number of their 
 shares, etc., a few months before that date. 
 Gt. Southern and Western Ry. List of Proprietors 
 30 June, 1849. 30/ 
 The G.W.R. and So. Wales Railway. 
 
 1849 1 88 JN REFERENCE to the connection of the GREAT WESTERN 
 
 with its MOST IMPORTANT EXTENSION LINE (the SO. 
 
 WALES RAILWAY) I have an Appendix (practically complete 
 in itself) TO A "STATEMENT" explaining the relations of 
 the Co.'s in extracts taking from the meetings, of both. [The 
 " STATEMENT " ITSELF a little incomplete will be included 
 gratis if desired]. 
 
 Appendix to Statement relating to Great Western 
 [Guarantee] to So. Wales Railway. 63 pp. 8 wrappers, 
 10/6 
 
55 
 
 Description of Companies continued. 
 
 London and Brighton South Coast. 
 
 1849 189 JN the following pages Mr. Laing mentions that the 
 Brighton Co. had 112 Locomotives and 3 'on order and that 
 cost of Locomotive Power will be in future' about 52,500 
 per annum. 
 
 Laing, S. Report on Depreciation and on 'a Reserve 
 Fund. 16 pp. 8 7/6 ^49 
 
 A G.W.R- CREDITOR 
 
 L85O 190 ^TIMOTHY TYRRELL once honoured a G.W.R. Meeting by 
 his presencealmostin the CAPACITY OF A BAILIFF. At any rare 
 the G.W.R. owed him a little bill and he came to put down 
 extravagance. In the following pages he tells the Directors 
 they are only authorised to have 2,720,000 Debentures 
 but that they owe ^5,536,959. 
 
 Tyrell's Letter to Great Western Directors, 8 hf. cf 
 I0 / 6 1850 
 
 WEST LONDON RAILWAY. 
 
 ISO 191 JN the work below I find a very interesting account of the 
 history of that curious work formerly known as the BRISTOL 
 BIRMINGHAM and THAMES Junction and Afterwards. WEST 
 LONDON, -'The smallest railway" (only 3 miles long) is 
 here spoken of as closed and as " the silent railway.'" On 
 it Messrs. Clegg and Samuda tried the Atmospheric System. The 
 Cyclopaedia devotes twenty-two pages to the Metropolitan Railway 
 Stations of that day. 
 
 Knight's Cyclopaedia of London, 860 pp. 5/ 1850 
 
 Midland Railway. 
 
 The Company's Regulations for its Servants. 
 1855 192 JBELOW is a little booklette in folding parchment covers 
 containing the 155 rules issued for the guidance of the Mid- 
 land Co.'s servants, Jan. 1855, signed by John Ellis (chair- 
 man), Jos. Sanders (sec.) The rules suggest a good many 
 ways of getting killed. 
 
 Rules and Regulations for Officers and Men of the 
 Midland Ry. 94pp. 16 7/6 1855 
 
 'LT he Great Nor *h-British Line" and Its Poet. 
 1855 193 PROBABLY the N.B.R. was the first Scotch or even 
 British Railway that gave rise to a poetry book. But any- 
 way in 1855, The LEISURE HOURS of a RAILWAY 
 LABOURER were dedicated. ..to. ..the " North-British Trans- 
 lation^ Association." producing 95pp, some in "blank 
 verse" about "a certain man of the guards who was a 
 Gideonite, &c," and about another who had to sit on van tops and sang 
 " Perched on the top. all I could do 
 
 Was just to guard myself." 
 
 And once it is said there was a Mutiny of the North-British Heavy 
 Dragoons (the General Manager's Own), for the G.M. thought 
 " Stern retrenchment I'll combine, 
 
 With wages screwing skill, 
 And rule the Great North-British line 
 By my own sov'reign will." 
 
 The Leisure Hours of a Railway Labourer. 18 io/ 
 
 Edin. 1855 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
56 
 
 Description of Companies continued 
 
 Great Northern Ry. Nominal Fares. 
 
 1856 194 JN 1856 the Great Northern published some Correspon- 
 dence relating to the combined opposition of the NORTH 
 WESTERN, the MIDLAND, and the MANCHESTER^ SHEF- 
 FIELD, and LINCOLNSHIRE lines against the GREAT 
 NORTHERN (partly on account of the desire of the G.N.R. 
 to communicate with Manchester), the opposition resulting in immense 
 reduction of^ fares e.g. London to Doncaster 3 / (present fare i 3 /) 
 With reference to the Gladstone Award and the Ten Towns Agree- 
 
 Minutes and Correspondence between the Companies 
 
 [named above]. 47pp. 8 7/6 1856 
 
 Great Southern and Western. 
 
 1857 IQS 'H letter circulated among the G.S. and W.R. proprietors 
 led to the printing and publication of SPEECHES by Messrs. 
 BURKE and SCOTT on Athlone and Tullamore Extension 
 and Athlone Junction with Midland. 
 
 Speeches on Great Southern and Western Exten- 
 sion. P 8 C 7/6 I8 57 
 The G.W.R., Mr. GoocH, and the Ruabon Colliery 
 1857 196 /IfcR. GOOCH the G.W.R. Loco Supt. was evidently 
 interested in Coal. He was with the G.W.R. from 1838 
 and here in 1857 he states that if necessary HE WILL LEAVE 
 HIS OLD COMPANY to UNDERTAKE THE MANAGEMENT of 
 the RUABON COLLIERY COMPANY (p 25). 
 Bayley, Robt. On the G.W.R. and Ruabon Coal Co. 
 8 io/6 I8 57 
 L. & N. W. R. Share Transfer Scandal. 
 
 1869 197 A /ERY curious affair with regard to the transfer of some 
 shares happened in 1860, in the case HARE v. L.&N. W.R. 
 in which the Vice Chancellor qualified the proceedings of 
 the Co. as *' MOST DISCREDITABLE " and the Times hinted 
 that the SECY. Mr STEWART had really COMMITTED 
 PERJURY. The following pages give an extract on the case 
 from The- Times and some curious references to various 
 Railway Companies. 
 
 Railway Management illustrated in the Judgment 
 Hare v. L.&N.W.R. lopp. 8 7/6 Circa i86c 
 
 London Brighton and So. Coast Crisis. 
 
 1867 198 1P&HEN a line returns no dividend for three half years one 
 cannot wonder at bad feeling. Mr. Schuster's bold polic) 
 ended in a COMMITTEE OF INVESTIGATION, and here are 
 the COMMITTEE'S REPORT, Mr. SCHUSTER'S SPEECH, 
 DIRECTORS' STATEMENT and other Papers referring to 
 very lively time. 
 
 Lond. Brighton and So. Coast Financial Investigatior 
 Papers (7)' 2 1/ 
 
 MIDLAND RAILWAY. 
 
 1875 IQQ /1ft*. Williams amid his history o! the "MIDLAND traces th 
 separate histories of the " MIDLAND COUNTIES, 4< NORTF 
 MIDLAND," " Birmingham and Derby," " Birmingham ant 
 
Description of Companies continued. ' 
 
 Bristol," " Leicester and Swannington," and the complete 
 history, well illustrated, has made, as The Saturday Review 
 remarked "A VERY INTERESTING AND LIVELY PICTURE OF 
 RAILWAY ENTERPRISE "an.d, as the Derby Mercury said, the 
 Qomfiany could not have fallen into better hands." 
 Williams, F. S. The "Midland Railway. 7oopp. roy 8 
 
 STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON. 
 
 875 200 jfifcR. JEANS gives some most important information and 
 11 sticks up well " for the FIRST PASSENGER RAILWAY" in 
 the pages below. John Dixon's career is detailed, and 
 Hedley is credited. 
 
 Jeans, J. S.,, Jubilee Memorial of Ry. System and 
 Hist, of Stock, and Darl. Ry. dS ib/6 1875 
 
 THE GREAT EASTERN. 
 
 B 201 BBOUT forty years after Mr. Herapath's trenchant criti- 
 cisms of the Eastern Counties policy, the WHITE ELEPHANT 
 (now adorned with the title of the GREAT EASTERN) came 
 under the tender mercies of Mr. M. T. BASS, M. P. It was 
 still the same old tale, every other line was paying, but the 
 Great W.E. had done nothing respectable for ten years. Here are the 
 attacks, the reply, and the concurrent reports of the Company. 
 
 Great Eastern Railway Pamph'ets and Papers, bound 
 together. 6/6 l8;6 
 
 ipottertes IRailwaps. Curious 3tems. 
 
 1836 202 XATE as the Potteries were before they got a railway two 
 1ft A 5 well-known Companies were projected, the " Manchester 
 Cheshire, and Staffordshire," 'and the eld " South Union," (the latter 
 .hin a week of the other), as early as 1836 to run from Manchester 
 to the South. (Vide " GENERAL OBSERVATIONS " pub. by Longman, 
 1838). After many curious incidents, amid which the Companies 
 amalgamated into the " MANCHESTER and BIRMINGHAM Ry. Co " a 
 Jme was made to CREWE only (to the disgust of the Potteries), and a 
 subsequently proposed extension fell through about 1842. In 1845 a 
 new scheme " The South Union, or Manchester, Potteries and London" 
 started. And papers belonging to the " M. and Cheshire" have now 
 turned _up with those of the later scheme as if there had been a 
 connecting link. A lawyer's bill dating from November ^ist 1836 from 
 J. P. HARDING against WHEELER and MARRIOTT gives details of early 
 proceedings of the old " Manchester and Cheshire" scheme. Some Mr. 
 Wheeler was afterwards Secy, of "Manchester and Birm. R v ." and 
 there are several HARDINGS connected with this later " South Union." 
 .Besides the bill there are " lists of Assents and Dissents" to the old 
 line. Among the papers of the S. U. are " Assents " etc,, draft notices 
 of applications to parliament, Map, Prospectus, and a Subscription 
 Contract giving : list of Subscribers names in which Messrs. BACKHOUSE, 
 CAKDBN, and WHITEHEAD are sho'.vn to have each paid ^1000 as 
 deposit and WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY of 88 St. James' St. 
 London HAD HERE HIS NAME DOWN FOR ^400 in SHARES and had 
 PAID ,40 DEPOSIT. Mr. ANDREW SPOTTISWOODE was also a laree 
 subscriber, and CHARLES DICKE.VS. (!) 
 
 Manchester, Cheshire, and Staffordshire promotion 
 papers including; Harding's bill, and the later " South 
 
 Union" promotion papers including the interesting 
 
 SUBSCRIPTION CONTRACT." 55; 1836-45 
 
 Also Prospectus and Map of the last mentioned "South 
 
 Union with long list of Directors. TO/ jg 4S 
 
 Published. by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
58 
 
 ZIbe (5uibes, 
 
 WHAT is A "GUIDE"? In railway literature 
 either TIM K TABLE, a DWCHIPTIOX of KAIL- 
 -WAV or alJKS< RIPTION of the DISTRICT through 
 which a Railway passes, and generally with a 
 historical account of the Line. THKLATTKR.chiefly, 
 are MY " GUIDES." As historical railway litera- 
 ture they are of immense interest. Whether by 
 words alone, or with the hf lp of woodcuts and 
 plates, they tjive us their picture of the district 
 *-hn the railway first appears m it. At this spot . 
 one reads for the last fine of the great Village | 
 Inn which is now to become deserted, the coach : 
 road having just lost its brightest and best at- 
 tractions, and the little village itself, now out of 
 the main current of life, about to decay. At other 
 
 spots a railway town about to rise, or a town de" 
 velop with improved means of transport. O or by 
 the line itself the works of the early engineers, 
 Stephenson, Locke, Cnbitt, and others, and the 
 homes of the magnates, richer if not prouder, who 
 have eased or marred the line's success. Every 
 page of the " Guide," too, bearing the name, not 
 of the district, but of the railway over which the 
 early authors expected one would travel, with 
 wire spectacles on nose and " Guide " in hand, m 
 an open railway jaunting car at twenty miles au 
 hour. There are many varieties of the Guide, 
 each telling an historical, topographical, a*id 
 financial tale of the line side to the modern ob- 
 serving eye. 
 
 LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER. 
 1833 loot UHE older records connected with England's most famous railway are 
 growing -steadily scarcer. The Railway Companion by "A Tourist' 
 is one of these, with its lithographic illustrations of Irwell Bridge, Water- 
 Street Station, Park-side, Newton, the locomotive, "CALEDONIAN " 
 (apparently having vertical cylinders working cranks within the frames), 
 &c., and forty-six pages descriptive of an excursion on the Liverpool 
 line, while the curious arrangement is referred to of the police and 
 passenger stations erected every mile along the line. 
 Railway Companion, describing an excursion along the Liverpool [and 
 Manchester] line. By a Tourist. 5 plates, d.8 wrappers ,* 2S 1833 
 
 LEEDS, MULL, AND SELBY. 
 1835. 
 
 1002 NE .of the earliest railways is the 
 LEEDS, SELBY, and HULL a rail- 
 
 way that expected ruin from Mr. 
 HUDSON'S York and North Mid land 
 (vide Qbservns on Principal Rys. 
 
 \ 1838, p. 1 6), but as a fact was never 
 successful till after that line was 
 opened (vide Wishaw, 1840). The 
 line is of considerable interest as 
 being the first running from the 
 
 town, which pn wiuced one of the first 
 railway locomotives (BLENKINSOPP'S 
 in 1811). The little work below 
 contains a quaint account of the 
 
 opening of the line by the locomotive 
 Nelson, 22nd Sept., 1834, from which 
 we note that the train was delayed at 
 starting by the trifling fact that THE 
 
 AXLES OF THE ENGINE WERE TOO LARGE ! 
 
 The Company's Fares and Time Table* 
 
 are included, 
 
 Parson's (Ed.) Tourist's Companion, 
 
 or History of the Scenes and Places on 
 the route by the Railroad and Steam 
 Packet from Leeds and Selby to Hull. 
 With Time Tables. 243??. 12 35/ 
 Pub. London, Manchester & Selby, 1835 
 
 WHITBY AND PICKERING. 
 
 1836 '>3 3* THB MAP OF ENGLAND attached to the famous little Brads ^aw c 
 Oct. 2 5 th, 1839, there appears all by itself in the North-east of Yorkshire 
 a red line to show the WHITBY and PICKERING RAILWAY. We have ; 
 choice Memento of this old line of CeorgTO Stephenson'S ( brought into 
 prominence later on by GEO. HUDSON) in the work below, with its soft 
 and beautiful plates of a most picturesque country, amidst whic 
 meet the curious little railway and its carriages, drawn then by hors 
 power. 
 
 Published by EDWARD BAKK 
 
59 
 
 NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE. 
 
 1836 10 5 <S>NE OF THE FIRST PASSENGER RAILWAYS was to be opened half-way 
 from CARLISLE towards NEWCASTLE, and, a week before, a scribe went 
 out to obtain information prior to what was to be " the most important 
 day that ever dawned upon merry Carlisle," and the line was to bring 
 to it " a prolific source of commerce and wealth." On arrival at Green- 
 head he saw Stephenson's "Atlas," " a perfect beauty," which " had a 
 steam whistle " for four signals, all of which " in time the inhabitants 
 would understand." The "Atlas" made "a great noise in working, 
 like a sob"! Inhabitants amazed, horses terrified. The "Hercules," 
 " Sampson," " Atlas " and " Cilsland," all to leave Carlisle on 
 Monday ! 
 Brooke (Hy.) Sketch of Railroad from Carlisle to Greenhead. 
 
 1006 SCOTT tells us that though this 
 line ran past the cottage in which 
 George Stephenson was born, its 
 first act did not permit locomotives. 
 
 1837 
 
 They were used, however, by 1835. Ap- 
 pended are the Stations and^Fares. 
 Scott's Railway Companion, with 
 
 map. lospp. 18* is/ 1837 
 
 1838 I0 7 R curious little booklette below gives an account of the Grand Opening 
 of the line throughout (r.^., to Redheugh Station on South-side of Tyne 
 opposite Newcastle), describing the carriages and mentioning the 
 locomotives " Wellington " and " Nelson " (of Hawthorn's), the 
 " Victoria ff by Hawks and Thompson of Gateshead, and incidentally 
 the " Eden " (Stcphenson's). 
 
 [Mitchell's] Guide to Newcastle and Carlisle, and Account of 
 Opening. 32pp. 48 wrappers, very rare. 2i/ 1838 
 
 THE GRAND JUNCTION. 
 
 From the "LivnnpooL AND MANCHESTER Railway" to BIRMINGHAM. 
 1837 z 8 UHE GRAND JUNCTION, THE FIRST BIG ENGLISH RAILWAY, was opened 
 July, 1837. And Cornish at Birmingham at once produced his 
 COMPANION, the first edition of which was exhausted in 14 days, so eager 
 was the demand for it, the Editor afterwards walking along the whole line 
 to secure the correctness of his 2nd edition. It gives the time tables, 
 explanations as to first and mixed trains, the regulations, the fares and 
 distances from each station, the height of each above low wafer 
 mark probably to show what kind of gradient had been come up (the 
 figures showing 150 feet at Edge Hill and rising up to 371 feet at Bir- 
 mingham), curious old advertisements of date, etc., etc. 
 Cornish's Grand Junction and Liv. and Manchester Railway 
 Companion, 18 with view of train, map and sect ion. , ao/ 1837 
 
 1837- 
 
 1009 jf REELING HURRIEDLY PUSHED history of the line, the regulations, the 
 
 ON HIS COMPANION on hearing of 
 that of Cornish. He prided himself 
 on the SPECIAL ACCURACY of HIS 
 DESCRIPTIONS. The work notes that 
 this great line was opened without 
 ceremony to respect the memory of 
 Mr. HUSKISSON, it gives a brief 
 
 time and fare tables, the objects of in- 
 terest on the line, and their distances, 
 and many fine old advertisements, while 
 its map was produced UNDER THKCARE 
 of MR. LOCKE, THE COMPY'S ENGINEER. 
 Freelfngr, A. Grand Junction Railway 
 i8c/. 10/6 1837 
 
, 
 6o 
 
 GRAXD JUNCTION continued. 
 1838 I01 SBORNE INCLUDED A HISTORY of RAILWAYS, carefully describes and 
 illustrates the different kinds of RAILS, the CARRIAGE CONNECTING 
 LINKS, a curious SIGNAL APPARATUS, a " MESSENGER," two sorts of 
 " BREAKS," mentions Mr. PALMER, the LIVERPOOL CONTEST, and 
 describes and illustrates a LOCOMOTIVE (" Swiftsure' type), gives a 
 
 NEAT CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY of the LIVERPOOL and MANCHESTER and 
 
 of the GRAND JUNCTION Lines, with receipts, expenses and PROFITS 
 of the former from Dec., 1831, to June, 1837, and the re P ort of the 5th 
 Annual Meeting (Sept., 1837). 'lime Tables, old advertisements, * 
 map of the line, a geological map, view of Chat Moss, views of OU 
 Stations, Streets, and Towns at date, tpgether with details as to 
 places en route, etc., etc., make up a very attractive little work. 
 Osborne's Guide to the Grand Junction Railway. 12 cloth, 2 nc 
 edn. 10/6 l83 ' 
 
 ion BRAKE'S GUIDE GAVE STEEL 
 PLATE VIEWS of the Scenes on the 
 Line, including a view of the FIRST 
 OLD PASSENGER RAILWAY STATION 
 EVER USED FOR BIRMINGHAM 
 (Vauxhall,), two views of ASTON 
 HALL (the grand old mansion from 
 which the worthy son of JAMES 
 WATT would see the early Loco- 
 motives of GEORGE STEPHENSON), a 
 
 1838 
 
 coloured map of the line, a fare am 
 distance sheet with times . and regula 
 tions, a. view of the " Northumbrian ' 
 
 WITH ITS FIRST and SECOND CARRIAGES 
 
 TRUCKS, etc., and the usual Guide t 
 the Towns en route, old advertisements 
 etc. . 
 
 Drake's Road Book of the Cram 
 
 Junction Railway, p. 8 2nd ed. TO/ 
 
 183! 
 
 KILSBY TUNNEL. 
 
 ,99,000 
 ,500,000 
 
 ESTIMATE 
 COST . . 
 
 THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM. 
 
 Btu RAILWAYS had commenced. Then.. -it had joined the Nor t' 
 to BIRMINGHAM. That was easy work And the second was m liana 
 Only another hundred easy miles, and the great ironwuy might ha v 
 reached the MEXIVOPOLIS amidst almost uninterrupted goodwill 1 
 "ot there, for the STK.-HKNM.NS o.n.ld get anywhere, but fate wurke 
 hard to kill it. For Contractors it rained almost umnterrupte 
 ruin, and a million extra sovereigns had to sink to gain its shar 
 holders no extra dividend. "YotR STBPHBKSOKS AKKKI, for* imi 
 MOBI O-HA* BK.KI.C," cried Herapath ANI> TJIKV jnj " 
 FNOUCH NOW Leave your Tunnels: they will do for GIVSV CASH 
 or FELONS' CELLS, and let Htimie inwke his own road A BAN 
 THIS while enough for Beuuie is still mband. But.without Ke 
 unadulterated genius came to the rescue. Robert Stephenson. tj 
 Soubted engineer, won the victory, <* will be, seen m the work 
 below, and the monuments of his further victories reach from tl 
 ST. LAWKKNC'K to the NILE. 
 
 1839 IOIIA UHE LONDON & BIRMINGHAM says MR. JEAFFRESON,. the biographt 
 of ROBT. STEPHENSON, was the FIRST of the GREAT METROPOLITA 
 RAILROADS. Its locomotives at any rate were the first railway oru 
 seen in London and its works are memorable examples* of engmee 
 capacity, BRUNEL and others took them as a guide AND THEY BECAM 
 
 RECOGNISED MODELS for RAILWAY PRACTICE. 
 
 The railway is well illustrated by a series of fine large plates in the wor 
 by Bourne, with full details by Britton as described on p. 12 of my 1* 
 Bibliography. 
 
 BOURNE'S elaborate volume is the FINEST DEVOTED entirely T. 
 i INE, and gives a good account of those famous works which include 
 the " nine tunnels" HERAPATH suggested could so well be " convene 
 into dark holes for the punishment of criminals or into very excelled 
 gipsy retreats, cowsheds, pigsties, etc., etc" ! '. 
 Bourne London & Birmingham Railway, folio, cloth, ^3 3* 
 
 Published by EDWARD BAKKR, John Bright Street. Birmingham, 
 
6i 
 
 Loudou and Birmingham continued 
 
 1838 IOIIB "CdYLD published his guide the year of the opening. It is No. 114 of tha 
 former Bibliography, but it may be of interest to add here the 
 observation on p. 10 that after passing under the London and Harrow 
 road the' line is continued "by the STATION of the BIRMINGHAM, 
 BRISTOL, & THAMES JUNCTION RAILWAY" [" The Silent Railivay"\ 
 " and under another bridge till we arrive at the FIRST WATERING 
 STATION, at which the train is stopped to replenish the cistern of the 
 locomotive ! " 
 
 Wyld's London & Birmingham Railroad Guide. 
 cl. 10/6 .*wiisf 
 
 With map. 18' 
 1838 
 
 1838 
 
 TOXIC INHERE is A GOOD LITTLE HISTORI- 
 CAL INTRODUCTION in FreeHng's 
 L. & B. Companion, it speaks at 
 some length about TELEGRAPHS, 
 which he says were used between 
 Euston and Camden Town in the 
 autumn of 1837. Mr. F. comforts 
 
 travellers on tunnels being safe, and 
 has the usual descriptions and many 
 special items. 
 
 Freeling's London and Birmingham 
 Railway Companion. Map, etc. 18 cl. 
 10/6 [1838] 
 
 1838 
 
 fl^o DOUBT the EXPRESSION- " RAiLROADiANA " was not invented long 
 before 1838 but in that year the title was born on a guide book. 
 Another title of the same book was "A NEW HISTORY OF ENGLAND" 
 and LONDON & BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY was also big on the titlepage. 
 For a frontispiece it had the RICICMANSWORTH CHURCH WINDOW 
 (elaborately coloured), it had some interesting antiquarian lore as to 
 places en route and extracts referiing to a COMPANY'S MEETING when 
 KILSBY was building, TURNPIKES in an Engine House, and the famous 
 STURGE advocating NO SUNDAY TRAINS when Coghlan replied that to 
 be consistent, if JEWS got the line there would be NO SATURDAY 
 TRAINS ! etc., etc. 
 Railroadiana. 2i6pp. 9 illusts. two coloured p.8 3 cl. ai/ 1838 
 
 1839 
 
 1012 ^HE GUIDE BY Drake went in for 
 STEEL PLATES from which we get 
 good peeps at the railway and trains 
 along the route. On the coloured 
 map is a view Euston Entrance 
 (after the style of the entrance to 
 a Greek City); on p. 75 KILSBY 
 TUNNEL is compared to the Tunnel 
 of Xerxes through Mount Athos (a 
 
 tunnel of the same length which took 
 the whole army three years), and on p. 
 44 among railwa3>-s the CENTRAL KENT 
 and the GREAT EASTERN (wherever that 
 was t/ten) are mentioned. 
 Drake's Road Book of the London 
 and Birmingham Railway. With map, 
 steel plates, woodcuts, etc. Post 8", 
 10/6 1839 
 
 i.oi2a A cheaper edition without plates, 7/6 [1840] 
 
 jThese works also speak of the comfortless second class carnages. 
 
 539-40 1013 UHE LONDON and BIRM! Railway traffic also induced Cornish to issue a 
 Guide to the town to tell of the "pious" people and the manufactures. 
 It speaks of the GRAND JUNCT. TEMPORARY STATION at VAUXHALL, of 
 the COMING Station, gives a steel plate of L. and B f Station, speaks of 
 the line from DERBY (via Hampton) and the BIRM. and GLOUC. line 
 commenced. 
 Cornish's Stranger's Guide to Birmingham. x8 9 7/6 1839-40 
 
.. 
 
 Loudoii and Birmingham continued. 
 
 ,1339 1014 XIEUT. PETER LECOUNT who was connected with this line from its i 
 
 mencement wrote at any rate the historical portion of RoSGOd'S, and 
 explains how SIR JOHN RENNIE and the two STEPHENSONS had oppo- 
 sition companies with full boards, secretaries, engineers, etc. 
 
 ( > ROSCOE'S has a curious history. Peter Lecount said it might be called 
 
 " the history of the Cock Lane Ghost " (see under Magazines). Despite 
 his abuse, however, it is one of the best of the railway guides. The 
 authors give a considerable amount of information about the line, and 
 there are capital plates and woodcuts to illustrate it. 
 Rosaoe s London and Birmingham Railway. With map and eighteen 
 steel plates, and many woodcuts, d.8 d. 10/6 [circa 1839] 
 
 I84O 
 
 1015 {HE historical sketch of railways ] SLEY, SONS and FIELD, of London), 
 
 and various other items appeared 
 both in Osborne'8 Grand Junct. and 
 in his London and Birm. Guide, but 
 the latter contains the VALUABLE 
 L. and B. REPORT with detailed 
 STATEMKNT OF COST OF CON- 
 STRUCTION, a sketch of No. 34 
 
 FOUK- WHEELER ENGINE (with the 
 
 note opposite that "the four" L. and 
 B. Engines were made by MAUD- 
 
 there are some interesting views and 
 descriptions of railway works, including 
 one outside the FEARFUL KiLSBvTuNNEL 
 The guide is up to the usual mark and 
 there are the old advertisements show- 
 ing who were the old tradesmen of that 
 day. 
 
 Osborne's London and Birmingham 
 Railway Guide. 30 engravings, 12 cl. 
 10/6 [1840] 
 
 [1844.1 IOI 6 
 
 he line and 
 
 ^OR numerous neat little views all along the whole length of the 
 as a memento of the old eagerness to see the country, the Travelling 
 Chart issued by the Railway Chronicle is a good little record. 
 Railway Chronicle Travelling: Chart (London to Birm.) A long fold- 
 ing sheet, io/ ____ [circa 1844] 
 
 & N W R. 
 
 obably 
 
 1016* OF all the topographical railway guides SIDNEY'S RIDKS OK RAILWAYS may probi 
 
 be considered the brightest. From London to Carlisle he takes raihrays, towns, and 
 paople, and has something piquant, or startling, to say all along the line. 
 CHARMIXW LITTLB VIKW* lend additional attraction to this little work. 
 Sidney, Samuel. RIDES ON RAILWAYS. 254 pp. with steel plates, sq., 12mo. 
 106d [1851] 
 
 1855-62 IOI 7 THOUGH Measom'8 GUIDES ARE OF LATER IJATE than others they have 
 a valuable redeeming feature. They give us views of the OLD STATIONS, 
 with the OLD TRAINS and LOCOMOTIVES and fully illustrate the route at 
 their date. Page 59 of the L. and N. W. R' Guide shows us our chief 
 Birm. Station now unrecognisable as such and Temple Row with the 
 Royal Hotel where the DUCHESS OF KENT "from home was never more 
 at home" The Birmingham hotels have now forgotten what a royal 
 duchess is like, and the old "home" is practically long since swept away. 
 A few years later (1862) a further edition of the book was issued with 
 more elaborate descriptions of the manufactories. 
 Measom's Illust. Guide to the Lon. and Nor. Wsstcrn Railway. 
 156 pp. p8 r/. 10/6 [1852] 
 
 Ditto ditto ditto 536 pp. p8 wrapps. si [1862] 
 
 Published by EDWAKD BAKKR, John Bright Street, Birmingham 
 
G. J AND L. & B. (Combined Guides.) 
 1838 
 
 1018 COGHLAN'S IRON ROAD BOOK is 
 a gfeat favourite and in it one can 
 see an old world air, .the tunnels are 
 NOT FOUL,, one is to ".LOOK OUT" 
 FOR CINDERS, inclines are a-wk- 
 ward, rail ways are not DANGEROUS, 
 there are "CONSTABLES," "RE- 
 
 CEIPT TICKETS " Choice of Seats, and 
 it howls at the " tips " extorted by Hotel 
 Waiters and Chambermaids but of course 
 does not neglect the needful guide, maps, 
 time table, statistics, etc. A bright little 
 book. [1838 
 
 Coghlan's Iron Road Book. iSc/2i/ 
 
 1839 IOI 9 ^HE COMBINED GUIDE by Cornish has a special interest for it contains 
 one of the Earliest General Time Tables EVER PUBLISHED, giving the 
 LON. & BIRM. and its AYLESBURY branch, the G.'J., the NORTH UNION, 
 NEWCASTLE & CARLISLE, MANCHESTER & LEEDS ,TIM,E TABLES on or 
 after JUNE 1839, the London and Birm. regulations, guide down the 
 line and the GUAND JUNCTION GUIDE described above. 
 Cornishs's [Combined] London & Birm., Grand Junction, and 
 Liverpool & Manchester Railway Companion. iS cl. 27/6 1839 
 
 1839 
 
 1920 CREELING AND DRAKE also 
 issued COMBINED GUIDES (described 
 separately above). 
 Freeling's London Birmingham 
 
 and Liverpool Ry. Companion. 18" 
 
 20/ [,838] 
 
 Drake's Road Book to Grand June, 
 and Lond. & Birm. 2 o/ [1839] 
 
 1840 I02i "toome and Country Scenes includes " Roscoes London &> Birmingham " 
 and a description of the *' Grdnd Junction" The latter portion is 
 excessively scarce. The FRONTISPIECE shows the GRAND AVENUE then 
 separating ASTON HALL (home of JAS. WATT, J.) from the MAIN 
 LINE NORTH. The fine avenue is now gone, the park covered by the 
 jerry builder, and the Grand Junction (there) turned into a branch line ! 
 Home and Country Scenes. Guide to Lond. & Birm. and Grand 
 Junction. With fine steel plates. 2i/ Circa 1840 
 
 GREAT WESTERN. 
 1839 J o 22 TKHYLD'S is THE EARLIEST GUIDE i KNOW to THE GREAT WESTERN, and 
 certainly the G.W.R. had then hardly any need of a guide. It gives 
 notes on,the GUAGE, illustrations of AMERICAN PERMANENT WAYS and 
 PILE LAYING. Mentions the STEAM WHISTLE, speaks of the 
 ABSURDITY of HAWKSHAw's report and of NICHOLAS WOOD " amusing 
 himself ^v^th experiments on the line -with INGENIOUS TOYS"(!) The 
 guide has illustrations and maps and the work is both scarce and 
 popular fetching z8/ recently at a London sale. 
 
 Wyld's Great Western, Cheltenham & Ct. Western, and Bristol and 
 Exeter Railway Guide. 18 cl. ai/ 1839 
 
 1840 
 
 1023 3N 1840 Freeling- wrote what he 
 called The Great Western COM- 
 PANION, but only went as far as 
 READING, the first proposed termi- 
 nus. It includes the guide. a map, 
 some woodcuts (one of old Reading 
 station) and also an important 
 
 reference to some ground pipes contain- 
 ing TELEGRAPH WIRES running for $ome 
 miles and to be extended in use if the 
 invention succeeds. An affixed time 
 table is missing. VERY RARE. 
 Freeling's Great Western Railway 
 Companion. 18 ?/.. 1840 
 
6 4 
 
 LONDON AND SOUTHAMPTON (SO. WESTERN). 
 
 1839 102 4 fl& R - FREELING WROTE his COMPANION to the LONDON AND SOUT 
 AMPTON before that line changed its name to the LONDON and 
 WESTERN. It has a good little historical sketch opening with a tribut( 
 to MR. JAMES, and also to Messrs. Langton, Lloyd, and Easthop 
 Among the little woodcuts illustrating the guide is one of the curious 
 little Richmond Theatrejwhere KEAN and MRS. JORDAN often appeared. 
 At the end are time tables from Vauxhall to Basingstoke. The work is 
 now very scarce. 
 
 Freelingr, Arthur, London and Southampton Railway Companion. 
 With map, 18 cL 2i/ 1839 
 
 [1840] I02 
 
 EDITOR of Wytds GUIDE to the So. WESTERN believed rather in 
 extracts from " musty old books " than in " original nonsense" (vide 
 preface), but for all that gave a good little historical account of the line, 
 says its engineer, Mr. Giles, resigned in 1837 in favour of Mr. Locke, 
 speaks of the coming Havre and Paris Railway, etc., etc. On p. 27 
 the Editor objects to Bye-Laws and fines for losing bits of blue paper 
 usual on other lines. It is now a very rare little work. 
 Wyld's South Western Railway Guide. With maps, 1200 pp. 18* cl. 
 
 2 I/ _ _ [1840] 
 
 1845. 
 
 1026 H FEW YEARS LATER the RAILWAY 
 
 CHRONICLE issued as a folding 
 sheet its TRAVELLING CHART to 
 the line giving the usual numer- 
 ous neat little woodcuts of scenes 
 on the line, and a brief HISTORICAL 
 DESCRIPTION in which it says that 
 
 the ENGINEERING CHARACTERISTICS < 
 this line are LONG and STEEP GR;AD 
 ENTS and ENORMOUS EARTHWORKS 
 Railway Travelling Chart to Basing- 
 stoke and -Gosport [and So. Western 
 Railway] 10/6 [circa 1845 
 
 1845 I02 7 
 
 R - E - L. BLANCHARD the same year produced Bradshaw's Dei 
 criptive Guide, not by any means free from odd remarks (e.g. " An ex- 
 traordinary compound of every variety of sounds is the peculiar pro- 
 perty of impatient locomotives," and (p. 9) "an absolute thaos of wood 
 andiron, amidst which the guards . . perform eccentric orbits' (!)etc. 
 The route is described, and there is a Bradshaws map and an innocent 
 puff of his Monthly Guide. 
 
 Bradahaw's Guide to the London and So. Western Railway. 97 pp. 
 18 wrappers, very rare, 2i/ 1845 
 
 1864 I02 8 HND for a later guide, copiously illustrated, we have : 
 
 Measom's Ilius. Guide to the So. Western Railway. 476 pp., p. 8 
 
 1029 H PCJKTRAIT of KING CHARLES I. 
 and gilt edges beautified an edition 
 of Measonts London and So. Wes- 
 tern Guide with extension to Conn- 
 '**ai and Isle of Wight. From this 
 
 Published by INWARD BAKKR 
 
 
 (864 
 
 work one may note the m&ny changes 
 along the line of this last thirty years. 
 Measom's Lond. and South Western 
 Guide. A fine presentation copy. 10/6 
 U86 4 ] 
 ohn Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
MIDLAND COUNTIES. 
 
 1840 I0 3 F THE TWO GUIDES to the OLD MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY (one oF 
 earliest portions of the Midland Railway) the one by TEBUTT contains 
 an old Time Table of the line, dated Leicester, July 21, 1840, a table of 
 fares between Derby and Leicester and Rugby, time tables of the Lond. 
 and Birm. and of the Grand June. A capital brief history of the line, 
 an epitome of engineering facts connected with it, an illustrated guide, 
 
 )*W*rf views of the Nott., Leicester and Loughboro Stations, a coloured map 
 
 8rtt gradient section, curious old advertisements, illusts. of signals, etc. 
 
 Tebbutt's Guide to Midland Counties Railway, p. 8 wrapps. zi/ 1840 
 
 1031 & IOSIA UHE Guide to the same line issued by Allen is illustrated by better wood- 
 cuts and also by steel plates. Its views of the Stations ae of great 
 interest especially that of Derby Station, now the headquarters oiTthe 
 great Midland system. It also describe* the Lond. and Birm. and 
 Birm. and Derby routes. 
 
 [Allen's] Midland Counties Railway Companion. 135 pp. and 12 pp, 
 of old advertisements, p.8 2i/ \ l8 4<> 
 
 DittO ditto With Time Tables of various lines, 135 pp. and 
 
 166 pp. of old advertisements, p. 3 2i/ l8 4<> 
 
 LONDON AND BRIGHTON. 
 1841 
 
 1032 UHE LONDON and BRIGHTON (the | coloured map,^ a gradient section, ^a 
 fore-runner of the London Brighton 
 and South Coast) over which 
 RENNIE, STEPHENSON, GIBBS and 
 CUNDY fought so long and des- 
 parately, is a line of which everyone 
 will like an early record. The small 
 guide published by Jobblns gives a 
 
 3fOR A LATER GUIDE to the same line, with some very interesting 
 illustrations, such, for instance, as that of the Greenwich June, we have 
 Moasom's Illus, Guide to the Brighten and South Coast Rys. 
 p. 8 soiled, but rare, 5/ fST^-SWD^AM l8 53 
 
 
 good, but brief, historical account of the 
 line, and scatters throughout the des- 
 criptions of the route some very impor- 
 tant little railway items. 
 [Jcbbins'j London and Brighton Rail- 
 way Guide. iSc/. 2T/ [0.1841) 
 
 1033 
 
 AYR-184!. 
 
 I033A 'CHE Guide to the Ayrshire line 
 (opened 1840) published by McCoR- 
 MICK & GAMMELL, at AYR, gives 
 a good historical introduction, has a 
 grand little plate illustrating the 
 opening of the line, description of 
 
 the classical Burns district, with curious 
 old views, references to other progressing 
 Scotch lines, etc. 
 
 Guide to Glasgow and Ayrshire 
 Railway, nopp. 12* cl., with map, 
 2i/ 1841 
 
 EDINBURGH & GLASGOW. 
 
 1842 I0 34 3 T WAS N0 EASY MATTER to get from SCOTLAND, to LONDON IN 1842. 
 Advertisements here enable us to see the different possible ways' virt 
 
 (a) Steamers HULL, thence by SELBY and " MIDLAND COUNTIES Rys. 
 
 (b) DARLINGTON by (each thence by NORTH of ENGLAND and 
 MIDLAND COUNTIES Rys. (c) Steamer to LIVERPOOL, thence by 
 GRAND JUNCTION etc. or (A) Coach to LANCASTER thence by GRAND 
 JUNCTION etc. Neat maps, carefully marked gradients, and an 
 intimation that there are Luggage 1 rains for Third Class Passengers(i) 
 add to the attraction of one of the very first Scotch Kairjuay Guides. 
 Wiiiox, J Guide to Edin. and Glasgow Railway. 18* 2i/ Ed. 1842 
 
66 
 
 SOUTH EASTERN 
 
 1844 
 
 1035 HMONG SOUTH EASTERN GUIDES 
 the one by Westerton is of un- 
 questionable interest from its Hints 
 to Young Railway Travellers which, 
 epitomised, are (i) Buy a Brashaw's 
 Guide (!) (2) Get a ticket and sit 
 back to engine. ^3) Buy a cap and 
 put your hat away from " dust and 
 wet " under the seat. (4) Provide 
 
 your set/' with eye glasses to avoid gr 
 and blindness. (5) Bring a thick co> 
 and a muffler and (6) And if other folks 
 callihee " coddling" they will really be 
 regretting THEY hadnt coddled. 
 Westerton, Chas. Bradshaw's 
 Pleasure Guide to the South 
 Eastern Railway. sspp. 18 wrappers, 
 
 2 I/ 1844 
 
 1844-50 I0 36 5n 1844 Mr. JAMES PHIPPEN wrote Cof bran's Guide to TUNBRIDGE 
 1037 WELLS and gave at the end what he called Descriptive Particulars of 
 the South Eastern Railway in about sspp. with separate title page. 
 And in the same year SMITH ELDER issued the SOUTH EASTERN 
 RAILWAY MANUAL both good records of that date- 
 Colbran's Guide to Tunbridge and Particulars of the South 
 Eastern Railway. p8 cl. 7/6 1844 
 
 Smith Elder's South Eastern Railway Manual. p3 cl. 7/6 1850 
 
 [1853] 
 
 i /IDEASOM'S is a comparatively late Guide to the So : Eastern but has 
 some most attractive little woodcuts showing the RAILWAY STATIONS 
 and LOCOMOTIVES at date; 
 Measom's Illustrated Guide to South Eastern Railway. iQ4pp. p8 
 
 6/6 1853 
 
 (SCOTLAND LOWLANDS) 
 1844 
 
 1039 K EARLY SCOTCH RECORDS a little Greenock and Ayr and Kilmarnock 
 Handbook published by Sutherland Railways in addition to Steamboats, 
 at Glasgow (i.a.J gives the Time [Sutherland's] Handbook for Tourists 
 Tables for the Edinburgh Garnkirk, I ... in Scotland. 24??* 18 10/6 
 
 Wishaw and Coltness, Paisley and 
 
 1844 
 
 MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE 
 1848 r 39A "fflow comes a charming little sketch (by Mr. Samuel Sidney,) of 
 Lincolnshire, the eastern end of the M. S. & L. line, the county too 
 from which sprang the GT. NORTHERN RAILWAY. And HORSES, 
 Cows, Ploughmen, and Railways, surely never before made a better 
 historical blend than in this fine little " Pickering" line side record. 
 Sidney, Sam. Railways and Agriculture in N. Lincolnshire. 
 Rough notes of a RIDE OVER THE TRACK of the M. S. & L. and other 
 RAILWAYS. io3pp. 18* cl. 10/6 Pickering, 1848 
 
 (A GENERAL GUIDE) 
 
 1851 I0 4 {probably the first really elaborate RAILWAY GUIDE giving both descrip- 
 tions of the works on the leading lines and the chief objects of interest 
 by their side was Churton'S work. He gives good descriptions of the 
 principal works on the LONDON & BIRM., the GREAT NORTHERN, 
 GREAT WESTERN, etc., etc., and has as special feature numerous 
 very attractive woodcuts of the chief residences on the lines. 
 Churton, Edward. The Railway Book of England, .sgopp. roy 8 cl. 
 10/6 1851 
 
 Published by KIWARD BAKRK, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
67 
 
 WHITEHAVEN & FURNESS (English Lake District). 
 862 041 5OHN LINTON issued his little guide when the English Lake District 
 had become almost surrounded by a railway. It has nice little steel 
 plates, and was THE FIRST of the LAKE RAILWAY GUIDES. 
 Linton, John. Handbook to the Whitehaven & Furness Railway. 
 With a map and twelve steel plates. 12 limp cloth, 5/ 1852 
 
 GREAT NORTHERN. 
 
 1854-7 
 
 042 Uhe influence of the romantic GREAT 
 NORTHERN may be traced from : 
 
 04} Mackie, Chas. Itinerary of the 
 Creat Northern. i22pp. wrappers, 
 
 Si l8 54 
 
 Meason's Illustrated Guide to the 
 Great orthern. ig6pp. wrappers, 
 
 5/ Ig 57 
 
 STHE GREAT MAIN LINE NORTH 
 
 856 1044 HdHEN THE Andersons wrote their little guide to the INVERNESS AND 
 NAIRN Railway that line was an isolated one. Now it is a PART of the 
 
 GREAT MAIN ROUTE FROM LONDON tO the ORKNEYS. The booklette 
 
 ; includes a brief history of the line, opened November 1855. The Co.'s 
 
 j.Time Tables for June 1856 are added. 
 
 Andersons' Handbook to the Inverness and Nairn Railway. 12* 
 
 wrappers, 10/6 1856 
 
 PANAMA 
 
 1861. 
 
 044AV N the 27th of January, 1855, at 
 midnight, in darkness and rain, the 
 last rail of the Panama line was 
 laid, and on the. following day a 
 locomotive passed from ocean to 
 ocean." So says Mr OTIS on p 36 
 
 of his illustrated book descriptive of this 
 famous railway, in one of the most in- 
 teresting railway guides ever issued. 
 Otis, F. N. Illustrated History of 
 the Panama Railroad. 263pp. 8 cl. 
 10/6 1861 
 
 NORTH EASTERN- 
 
 863 I0 45 fl&R- LANGLEY OPENS HIS GUIDE with a view of "The Rocket" and the 
 remark that the NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY maybe said to run over the 
 birthplace of the railway system, and to be . . . THE MOST INTEREST- 
 INO RAILWAY IN THE WORLD. He gives 20 pp. of historical introduc- 
 tion, mentioning that " Rocket" was built under enormous difficulties, 
 and that the MAIL WAS FIRST SENT BY RAILWAY nth Nov. 1830. 
 Langley, J. B. Illus. Official Guide to the North Eastern Railway. 
 231 pp. p. 8 wrappers, $/ 1863 
 
 BLYTH AND TYNE 
 1863 I0 45 A dD R - RICHARD WELFORD in 1863 carefully compiled a Guide to 
 the Blyth and Tyne Railway, on p. 53 of which he describes and 
 illustrates WELLINGTON QUAY, where George Stephenson lived after 
 his first marriage, and where his famous son Robert was born. Mr. 
 Welford shows us on the site of the old cottage the STEPHENSON 
 MEMORIAL SCHOOLS. 
 
 Welford, Richard. Handbook to Tynemouth and Guide to the 
 Blyth and Tyne Railway. pS wrappers, $/ [1863] 
 
68 
 
 
 MEXICO 
 1876 I0 4^ NE of the most elaborate guides or histories ever published was 
 
 duced in Mexico. There are 211 pages folio. The work shows that 
 the Mexicans began railway building about 1842, when even English 
 railways were few. It is written ir> English and illustrated by portraits 
 of native engineers. It has tinted views of some grand scenery. And 
 often close to the side of awful looking precipices we see the wonderful 
 railway and its double-funnelled (? Fairlie) Locomotives. 
 Baz and Callo's History of the Mexican Railways. Translated by 
 Henderson. Maps, gradient table, views, etc., fol. ft/, c/. 2i/ Mex. 1876 
 
 SALISBURY AND YEOVIL. 
 
 1878 203 HBOUT the date that the little "fourteen per cent.'' 
 Salisbury and Yeovil line ceased to exist as an independant 
 line, and became blended with the Great South Western 
 trunk line to Exeter, Mr. Ruegg published its history. He 
 refers to the naming of the " So. -Western," to the origin o 
 the poor " Somerset and Dorset," and to numerous items of great in 
 terest in company history. 
 
 Ruegg 1 , Louis H. The History of a Railway. 66pp 
 
 8 5/ Sherborne, 1878 
 
 1836 204 ^BIRMINGHAM RYS. Messrs. WALKER in their map o 
 
 Warwickshire in 1836 show BIRMINGHAM with only two 
 railways, the " BIRM. and DERBY " not having yet secured 
 their act. 
 
 204 Walker's Warwickshire. Scale #" to m. (14" x 16" 
 folded into 12) 10/6 1836 
 
 1837 205 "XONDON and BIRM." Ten days after the first portion was 
 
 opened CHEFFINS issued his little map showing line as fa 
 as BOXMOOR. 
 
 205 Cheffins' Lond. and Birm. Scale l / 2 " to 
 7^"x i7 l /2 f folded into 16) 10/6 1837 
 
 1838 206 ON the 1st Jan. next year, three months before the L. & 1 
 
 opening to DENBIGH HALL, CHEFFINS issued his map to 
 include that point and showed the projected line to 
 AYLESBURY. Bound with it is also the Northern portion 
 
 showing the Junctions with the " Derby," " Gloucester," and " Grand 
 Junction " lines. This first edition having fare tables to include 
 COACH FARES BETWEEN DENBIGH HALL and RUGBY (the unfinished 
 portion) with distance tables and advts. 
 
 206 Cheffins' London and Birm. 2 maps. (N. and S. 
 
 portions bound together). Scale %" to in. Folded into 12 
 ist ed. 10/6 1838 
 
 1838 207 CHEFF-INS' (L. and B.) second edition included Time 
 Tables, Rates for horses parcels and carriages and Fare 
 Tables for Mail, Mixed, Night Mail trains and other 
 distinctions and the first REGULATIONS. The TIME TABLES 
 PROBABLY the FIRST PUBLISHED sho\v eight trains both ways, four on 
 Sundays, and no ^rd class. Cheap thro' fare zo/ 
 
 207 Cheffin's Lond. & Birm. 2 maps. 2nd ed. I5/ 1838 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
6 9 
 The Maps continued. 
 
 1838 208 GHEFFIN'S Grand June. Map showed the proposed routes 
 from CREWE to BIRKENHEAD and of the ** Manchester and 
 Birmingham " with its branch to CREWE. The tables 
 affixed show time occupied, fares, distances by Road, 
 Regulations, and notices as to First and Mixed trains "both having 
 seats on the Foof for those who prefer it." 
 
 208 Cheffin's Grand June. Map. Scale ^" to m. Size 
 3^ ft. x 1 6" folded into 12 I5/ 1838 
 
 1838 209 BRAKE'S maps bound together take from London to 
 Liverpool. They have fine little views of the old trains 
 inch the WILT)' FIRE Loco pulling the Reformer, the 
 Conservative, and the Royal Mail with occupied carnage on 
 truck and a bags:aq;e truck etc., gradient sections on maps, and to some 
 are affixed Drake's Edition of the Regulations of various Co.s. with 
 Fares, Distances, Officers of the Co.s. etc., including notices of the 
 BOLTON, and of NORTH UNION. 
 
 207 Drake's Railroad Map. London to Liverpool etc. 
 
 Size of maps 18" x % l / 2 " each folded into 18 2nd ed. I5/ 
 
 Nov. 1838 
 IRISH COMMISSIONERS ATLAS. 
 
 1838 210 F Irish lines those from Belfast to ARMAGH, DUBLIN to 
 DROGHEDA and to CARLOW and KILKENNY are shown with 
 Acts. Further lines are now proposed from DUBLIN to 
 ARMAGH, ENNISKILLKN, and to MARYBOROand thence to 
 KILKENNY and HOLY CROSS dividing a^ain to LIMERICK, 
 
 CORK, and WATERFORD. On the MAP of ENGLAND (dated May 1837) 
 there are no lines shown as proposed north of NEWCASTLE or 
 CARLISLE. Noteworthy proposed routes are those from CAMBRIDGE 
 close to Lincoln, and through YORK to DARLINGTON, the LLANDUDNO, 
 Port DYLLAEN (via Barmouth) and FISHGUARD routes (two courses 
 from Llandovery), the two lines between MANCHESTER and RUGBY, 
 the four LONDON and CHELTENHAM routes, the two LONDON, 
 SALISBURY, and TAUNTON routes, the five BRIGHTON routes, etc. And 
 in addition to the Irish routes and this EXTREMELY VALUABLE map of 
 England (it is perhaps the only one giving the five BRIGHTON routes 
 correctly) there are various curious statistical railway maps of Ireland. 
 
 Atlas to accompany the Second Irish Commissioners' 
 Report. Six maps, Folio, cloth. ^2 2/ 1838 
 
 G. W. R. 
 
 1838 211 ^HE same month (June) that the line was opened (as far 
 as MAIDENHEAD, 22^ miles from London) the Co. issued 
 loor l ^e P^ an anc ^ section below showing the line as far as 
 7Bwli^ -"Steventon. 
 
 G. W. R. Official Map and Section (to Steventon), 
 Scale i m. to r y ; size 2^-ft. sq. 2i/ 1838 
 
 Wyld's Map of Great Britain. 
 
 1838 212 tTHK Map below shows ALL the ENGLISH PROPOSED 
 ROUTES of the time including three lines to BRIGHTON, 
 three to DOVER, " EASTERN " [? Northern and E.] from 
 Cambridge to York, the S. WESTN. and " LONDON, 
 
 SALISBURY and EXETER" ROUTES to Exeter, the NORTH and SOUTH 
 JUNCT. (from S. W. R. near Odihaui to Oxford and Birm., the 
 PORTDLLYAEN Route, the two " MANCH. and KIRM." Routes, and three 
 Routes to SCOTLAND : from Carlisle to Kilmarnock and Glasgow, from 
 Hexham to Edin. and Glasgow, and from NORTH SHIELDS, not 
 Newcastle, to Edinb. keeping clo.se to the coast. Affixed is a list of 
 
7 
 
 The Maps continued. 
 
 Rys. finished, in progress, and proposed (the first two with lengths^ 
 capital and cost. 
 
 Wyld's Railroad Maps. Scale ?" to m. ; size 2>ft. x 2. 
 Folded into p8 2i/ 1838 
 
 EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. 
 
 1838 2i2a BBOUT the time that HEREPATH (vide Ry. Magazine 
 
 Vol V.) was exclaiming 
 
 "... v.-ho now do Eastern Counties rule '? 
 
 "The self same men? Oh yes ! but children-like from school 
 
 "With bottom whipt, they're now so meek and humble." [etc., very much ETC.] 
 
 and when there was talk about that famous piece between 
 NORWICH and YARMOUTH (for which a certain offer of 
 
 .20,000 yearly was once (?) made) now having to be given up, and the 
 , , great line having to stop short at COLCHESTER, a map was issued by 
 
 , COL. COLBY (ist Nov.) showing three routes from COLCHESTER to reach 
 
 YARMOUTH. The East route is shown red and the cover is printed 
 
 " EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY." 
 
 Eastern Counties Railway Map. Scale i" to m. Size 
 
 2ft. x 19" folded into 8 21 / 
 
 Bradshaw. (Great Britain.) 
 
 1839 213 /I&R. BRADSHAW'S large map, dated 1 4th January, shows 
 
 i ' , in SCOTLAND the ARBROATH and FoRFAR*running inland 
 
 : from Arbroath (Aberbrothock) to Forfar, and a line S.W. 
 
 along Coast to DUNDEE, and from thence to Cupar ; and 
 
 from GLASGOW to AYR. KILMARNOCK, GREENOCK, etc., to EDINB. ; 
 
 , thence a line to ENGLAND is projected to NEWCASTLE (via near 
 
 Bedlington). The "Northern and Eastern" is here the project from 
 
 , , CAMBRIDGE to YORK. On the sides of the map are numerous fine large 
 
 gradient sectionss (and altitudes), including one of the " Stockton and 
 DARLINGTON " line, while 30 pp. of details as to distances, levels, and 
 gradients are prefixed. It was the best railway map published at 
 that date. 
 
 Bradshaw's Railways of Great Britain. Scale i" to 
 10 m. ; size $}4 x 3^. First Ed. Folded into roy 8 4 4/ 
 
 1839 
 
 Grand Junction, Manchester Extension, etc. 
 
 1839 214 {THE map below includes the route of that curious project the 
 "MANCHESTER EXTENSION," with which the Ry. Times 
 said the "Manch.'ancJ Birm." line "were juggling the 
 Potteries." [ Vide RY. TIMES, 1839, espec. Dec. 2ist and 
 
 28th]. 
 
 Mogg's Map of the Environs of Birm. Liverpool, 
 Manchester. Potteries and Preston, and the Railways 
 in their vicinity. 28 x i2-in. Folded into 18 7/6 [1839] 
 
 GRAND JUNCTION. 
 
 1839 215 N Osborne's Map besides the GRADIENT is a section 
 showing the course of line previous to cutting, the CENTAUR 
 loco pulling the ANTILOPE, DESPATCH, The ROYAL MAIL, 
 a second-class, and a coach on truck (unoccupied). With 
 time-tables and notices, dated 20 June, 1839, showing six 
 trains, and no third class. 
 
 Osborne's Map. 2-ft. by 13-in. , folded into 16 10/6 
 
 1839 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 

 The Maps continued. 
 
 GENERAL MAP. 
 
 1839 216 ^HE Map below shows the English passenger lines for 
 which Acts had been obtained, shows the '* NORTHERN and 
 EASTERN " to York, and the " MANCH. and BIRM. EXTEN- 
 SION, "both in outline, marks the little DARTMOOR RAIL- 
 WAY and shows the line as if settled from NEWCASTLE to BERWICK (to 
 the East of MOKPETH and the later route) as part of the Great North- 
 British Railway. 
 
 Betts' Map of England and Wales. 3>-ft. by 2, 
 folding into case. 21 / 1839 
 
 GREAT WESTERN. 
 
 1839 217 /I&R. WYLD was always in time with his Maps and 
 Guides. The present one, dated 1839, shows the G.W. R. 
 complete to Exetei , and the CHELTN. and G.W. Union 
 finished. And in his bird's-eye view of England Leeds is 
 already accessible by the North Midland, Dover by the So. Eastern, 
 and even Norwich by the Eastern Counties. He went by Acts. 
 
 Wyld's Great Western, Cheltn., Bristol . . Ry Map. 
 
 Size, 2o-in. by 13-in., folded into 12 10/6 1839 
 
 London to Liverpool. 
 
 1839 218 IHHYLD's little Map of the London and Birm. Grand Junc- 
 
 tion, c., shows well the six branches from the Liv. and 
 Man. and the G.W. R. now into Paddington, Gradient Sec- 
 tions, with Vertical Scale, &c. 
 
 Wyld's London Birmingham Manchester ... Railway. 
 Map 19-in. by 16, folded into 18 5/6 ^39 
 
 BRIGHTON. 
 
 1840 219 HHIS Map shows the course of the old " Wandsworth and 
 
 Croydon Ironway," the junctions of the " Croydon " and 
 " Greenwich " lines in 1840, and the course of the successful 
 Brighton line. 
 
 Walker's London Croydon and Brighton Rys. Map. 
 Scale l-in. to m. Size, 4-ft. by 8-in., folded into 8 10/6 
 
 [1840] 
 BRIGHTON. 
 
 1841 220 H^HE Map below* published Apr. 10, 1841, shows the 
 
 Brighton line and the railways for some distance round Lon- 
 don, including the little "Thames June." line, the "Thames 
 Haven Ry." in outline, and Sections of the Croydon line 
 (Gibbs, engineer), and of Brighton line (Rastrick, engineer.) 
 Jobbins' Map Brighton Railway. 3O-in. by i8-in., 
 folded into 1 8 i5/ 1841 
 
 Lizars. Scotland. 
 
 1842 221 SHOWS the two Forfar lines, and the lines from Edin- 
 
 burgh to Glasgow, Greenock, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ; also 
 lines to Ardrossan, Dalziel, and Dalkeith. The N.B.R. 
 and the Caledonian (as " Proposed West Line") are out- 
 lined. Size abt. 3~ft. by 2. 
 
 Lizars' Map of Scotland with the Rys. (about 3-ft. by 
 2, folded 12) 10/6 1842 
 
 IRELAND. 
 1842 222 3" N 1842 there was only one railway opened in Ireland, 
 
72 
 
 The Maps continued. 
 
 but the map below well illustrates the proposed routes at 
 
 date. 
 
 Lizars' Map of Ireland, i" to lorn. 3-ft. by 2, foldec 
 
 into 1 8 io/ 1842 
 
 London to Liverpool. 
 1844 223 {THE Lond. and Birm, map below is earlier than that of 
 the Midland lines (say 1842). The Midland map, shows the 
 proposed Trent Volley, Leicester and Peterboro', Nottm. 
 and Lincoln, and Ashton and Huddersfield routes. Also 
 the old lines of 184*, and marks the stations between the London and 
 B. at Bliswo'rth, and via Derby up to Easingwold on the Gt. North of 
 England (then the nearest route from London to York and Newcastle). 
 
 Cheffin's Maps to the North. Abt. 2Q" by 8^ and 25" 
 
 by 8^.. Two maps bound together. 10/6 1844 
 
 Cheffin's Map. England. 
 
 1844 224 {THE map below shows the country covered with pro- 
 
 jected lines before the amalgamation of the Midland Con 
 panics. It is probably 1844, and shows the approach 
 not the arrival of the Mania. 
 Cheffin's Map of Railways of England. Scale, 3" to 
 m. Abt. 2- ft. sq., folded into p8 10/6 
 
 Bradshaw Great Britain. 
 
 1845 225 \DERY striking evidence of a sudden mania for railways 
 
 may be seen in the confused appearance of the sober and 
 accurate Bradshaw's Map at this date.- Wales was fall of 
 lines and mid-England was like an old spider's web. Still 
 it gives an honest record of what was seriously intended, 
 Bradshaw's Rys. of Gt. Britain (map same size as 1839 
 edition). Scale i" to io m. 2i/ 1845 
 
 LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAYS. 
 
 1845 225a {HIS map is most VALUABLE for tracing the early 
 history of the "GREAT NORTHERN" and neighbouring 
 lines. The '* GREAT GRIMSBY and SHEFFIELD JUNCTION" 
 was the then only Lincoln line and joined Grimsby and N. 
 Holland with M. Rosen and Gainsboro. The proposed 
 " E. Lines. Ry." runs from Grimsby to Boston, the 
 :< LOND. and YORK," East line, running thence South to Boston and 
 Spalding and the West Line over its modern course. The proposed 
 ''Camb. and Lincoln" and "Direct Northern" run to Gainsboro 
 and towards York. The SWINTON line is shown and several others as 
 far as Leeds and Derby. 
 
 Map of proposed East Lincolnshire Ry. Scale \" to 3m. 
 abt. 3ft. x 2, folded into p8. 21 / 1845 
 
 MANIA MAP OF LONDON. 
 1845 226 SPRING the raging of the mania the " RAILWAY BELL " 
 newspaper started and published a map to commemorate 
 itself. The map was illustrated by a bell surmounted by a 
 crown and embellished with a clock (!) under which was the legend 
 " Time) tide and trains "wait for no man," and several views of 
 stations, one very curious old " Greenwich " perhaps. Portraits of the 
 Queen and Prince Albert appear at bottom, while on the map itself the 
 reverted K shaped ("X) junction of the S.E.R., Brighton, Croydon, and 
 
 Published by Edward Baker^ John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
73 
 
 e Maps continued [History of the Lines. 
 
 Greenwich lines is capitally shown. 
 
 "Ry. Bell " [Mania] Map of London. Abt. 3ft. x 2^ on 
 rollers. 2l/ 1845 
 
 SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY. 
 
 46 227 ZlHE "So. WESTERN" issued the plan below when their 
 sanctioned or working lines reached to Salisbury, Dorchester, 
 and Gosport and when they proposed to proceed to 
 PLYMOUTH, TRURO, etc. 
 
 So. Western. Sketch Plan to illustrate Projected 
 Extensions. 36"xi8" io/ Circa 1846 
 
 EAST INDIAN RAILWAY. 
 
 46 228 {THIS Map of the proposed line to connect CALCUTTA 
 
 with the N. W. Provinces was to accompany the Report of 
 the " E. IND. RY Co.s" Managing Directory. 
 Map, East Indian Ry. Scale io m. to y%" Size4-ft. sq. 
 Folded into case 2i/ 1846 
 
 CALEDONIAN. 
 
 47 229 XIZAR'S Map of the "CALEDONIAN" Railway was 
 
 ornamented with views, and was worthy of the important 
 line then just opened. JOSEPH LOCKE and J. E. 
 ERRINGTON it says were the Engineers ; STEPHENSON 
 and Co. Contractors. 
 
 Lizar's Guide to the Caledonian Ry. 27" x 18" 
 Folded into 12 5/ 1847 
 
 Gt. BRITAIN. 
 
 48 230 {HE So. EASTN. has now formed the "CANTERBURY and 
 
 WHITSTABLE," and has its Maidstone and Tunbridge 
 branches ; the So. WESTN. has reached Portsmouth, 
 Dorchester, and Salisbury (via Winch.) ; the G. W. R. 
 system is to Totnes, Newcastle is approached by the Stanhope and 
 Tyne ; Lynn, Norwich and Bury are reached ; and Acts have authorised 
 lines from Crewe through Shrewsbury to Newport, and the whole 
 GREAT NORTHERN System. 
 
 Cheffin's Ry. Map of the Eng. and Scotch Rys. 
 
 1848 ed. 24 x 28 into p8 I5/ 1848 
 
 GREAT BRITAIN. 
 
 1-9 231 /!&R. Wyld's Map shows continuous lines opened from 
 PLYMOUTH to ABERDEEN no "So. WESTN." main line to 
 Exeter, no "South Wales" line, and no "GT. NORTHERN" 
 south of Retford. 
 
 Wyld's Railway Map of Gt. Britain. Size 3-ft. x 2-ft. 
 Folded into 12 10/6 
 
 IRELAND. BETT'S MAP. 
 
 5O 232 HHIS Map shows lines completed to MALLOW for CORK, 
 to LIMERICK, etc. It will, I think, be about 1850, and is 
 " reduced from the beautiful six sheet map engraved under 
 the superintendence of the Ry. Commissrs." 
 Bett's Map of Ireland. Scale %" to 5 m. About 2>ft. 
 by 2. Folded into 12 1 0/6 [circa 1850 
 
74 
 
 The Maps continued [History of the Lin 
 
 Great Britain. Station Map. 
 
 1851 233 ^THIS is far the most attractive map of the date not on 
 showing the STATIONS but marking all the DIFFERED 
 
 LINES IN DIFFERENT COLOURS. It shows the " GREJ| 
 
 NORTHERN " and the " SOUTH WALES " lines in progre 
 
 and a connection of railways from Plymouth to Aberdeen. 
 
 Macaulay, Z. Station Map of Rys. in Gt. Britai 
 
 Scale i" to 10 m., folding to roy 8 2 1/ 181 
 
 LONDON. 
 
 1851 234 {HE erection of the Crystal Palace and the success of tl 
 "NORTH LONDON" influenced the extension of loc 
 railways this year and the map below shows proposed at 
 existing lines round London, with notes on Cos. affixed. 
 Smith's Map (as above). About 2-ft. by ij^-ft., fold* 
 to 18 5/ 
 
 GENERAL MAPS. 
 
 1861 235 TKH'YLD's Map of GT. BRITAIN shows the lines extreme 
 "well for 1 86 1 and Stanford's Map of ENGLAND shows lini 
 1872 as in 1872. 
 
 Wyld's Railway Map of Gt. Britain, folded into 8 i8( 
 
 Stanford's Road and Railway Map of England, fold* 
 into a case, p8 2/ 183 
 
 RAILWAY JUNCTIONS. 
 
 187O 236 {To show the Junctions of lines with the railwa 
 
 TO coloured according to Companies there are Airey's Diagran 
 
 Airey's Railway Junction Diagrams, oblong 8 6/6 iSj 
 
 1875 Ditto ditto ditto 6/6 i8j 
 
 Ube Uime tables. 
 
 1825 237 " STOCKTON and DARLINGTON " vide i6$d p. 46 supra 
 1835 237a " *J)ULL and SELBY " vide 1002 p. 58 supra 
 1837 237b " GRAND JUNCTION " vide 1008-9 P-59 supra 
 
 A MEDAL TIME TABLE. 
 
 1837 237c " HE oddities of the Railway "guiding" could scarcJ 
 further go" says The Story of Bradshaw p. 21 "than t| 
 shape of a medal, marked with the ' times,' which tl 
 traveller could carry in his pocket, like a coin. Such 
 medal of white metal was issued 52 years ago thus inscribji 
 [here follow times of trains.]" The one below howev 
 gives only first class trains, perhaps disdaining the " Mixed " trains 
 the spirit of the times. On the Obvetse are shown the viaducts oft 
 two .lines leading into BIRM. with the words : Birm. Liv. & Mane 
 Grand June. Ry. begun 18-45 opened July 4th 1837, cost ^1,500,00 
 J. Locke, Engr On the Reverse are given the names of eight statioc 
 their distances from BIRM. and the time taken to reach them togeth 
 with the peripheral notice "ist class leaves Birm. at 7 o'clod 
 pt. ii a.m. ; ? pt. 2 and 7 p.m. ; ist class leaves Manchester ai 
 Liverpool at 5 pt. 6, ^ pt. 11 a.m. and 2 and \ pt. 6 p.m." These are tl 
 first "times" of 1837 (vide CORNISH & FREELING p.sg supra) an^ 
 consider the medal of that date. 
 
 A "First-Class" Time Table Medal of the Grafl 
 Junction Railway. 2 2/ [183; 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
75 
 
 Time Tables-continued. [History of the Lines. 
 
 *9 237d EARLIEST GENERAL TIME TABLES" vide 1019 p.63 supra 
 The First North Midland Time Table. 
 
 IO 2376 HHE N. M R. was opened as far as Sheffield 11 May, 
 1840. The handbill below, dated next day, announced the 
 opening and gave the times of the trains between Sheffield, 
 Derby, Birm. and London. By coaching to the Y. and 
 N. M. R. York could now be reached from London in a 
 day. An MS. note says " Midland " [Mid. Counts.] was opened May 
 5th [but only from Derby and N. to Leicester.] 
 
 The First Time Bill of the North Midland Railway. 
 2 i/ 1840 
 
 Mr. GEORGE BRADSHAW. 
 
 This space was left for the portrait of Mr. Geo. 
 Bradshaw published in The Story of bradshaw, but on 
 the eve of going to press we have been specially 
 requested not to publish the old portrait. And a 
 gentleman peculiarly well able to furnish the best 
 possible portrait of Mr. Bradshaw and to clear up many 
 points of interest with regard to the early issues of the 
 "Companion" has kindly promised a special photograph 
 for a future issue and certain information which we are 
 most anxious to obtain. 
 
 10 237f JN " The Story of Bradshaw" will be found a biographical 
 
 O sketch of the Geo. Bradshaw whose surname is universally 
 
 7 known, and an illustrated description of his Earliest "Time 
 
 Tables" and "Companions" Sir GEO. FINDLAY in his 
 
 " Working of an English Ry. r and Mr. WILLIAMS in "Our Iron 
 
 Roads," have both well described an early " Bradshaw," and Mr. 
 
 weight in gold. It is not however only the earliest issues that are rare 
 but almost all the issues up to 1850. Speaking as one who has seen a 
 large number of copies I can safely say that I have seen some 
 "Companions" of 1840 and 1847, that I do not expect to see other 
 copies of, and there are a few other early little publications of Mr. 
 Bradshaw that 10 each could not buy. From a set of these little 
 " Bradshaws" the development of the conveniences of passengers 
 traffic may be traced better than from any source and a few 'landmarks 
 are mentioned below : 
 
 THE GROWING PASSENGER ROUTES. 
 
 I have before me a set of thirty little " BRADSHAW'S COMPANIONS ' 
 ranging from October 1839 to November 1847, it may be of interest to 
 describe the growth of the railways as there shown. [The numbers as 
 used below are arbitrary ones.] 
 
 1839 (i) shows the now L. & N. W. R. represented by the little 
 'Manch. and Liv.' with the St. Helens and Runcorn Gap branqhes, and 
 the 'North Union' to Preston ; the LAN. & YORKS by the 'Manch. 
 and Bolton; the M. S. & L. by Manch. and Littleboro line; the 
 'NORTH EASTERN' by Leeds to York and Selby ; and the 
 MIDLAND by the 'Sheffield and Rotherham' line. In (2) the 
 
76 
 
 The Time Tables continued . [^History of the Line! 
 
 L. & N. W. R. is rep. by the ' Grand June ' and 'Lond. .and Birm.j 
 the G. W. R. reaches from Lond. to Twyford, we see the 'Newc. aw 
 Carlisle,' while the 'Birm. and Derby' via Hampton an<| the Nottrd 
 and Derby ('Mid. Cnts.')repres. the MIDLAND. 
 1840 In (3) the L. and SOUTH. WEST, runs to Southampton, th| 
 ' London and Croydon ' repres. the L. BRIGHTON & S. C. ; the oie 
 'Stockton and Darlington" sends its tables ; the 'Arbroath and Forfat 
 appears first for Dundee Districts and SCOTLAND; the ' NORTJ 
 MIDLAND' and the ' Birm. and Gloucester' appear to completi 
 the four chief divisions of the MIDLAND; the 'Mid. Cnts.' hal 
 reached Rugby, and the G. W. R. Steventon. In (4) the G. W. R. is 
 Wooton Basse tt and from Bath to Bristol ; the famous ' York anc 
 North Midland' (now NOR. EAST.,) from Derby to Leeds appears, 
 the GREAT EASTERN is seen in ' Northern and Eastein' td 
 Broxburne ; Birkenhead and Chester are reached ; and the 'Glasgow! 
 and Ayr' and 'Paisley and Renfrew' come first for Glasgow District) 
 
 (and second for SCOTLAND. 
 1841 In ( 5 ; 'Taff Vale appear* first for WALES ; In (6) the LANC, 
 and YORKS is complete as the ' Manch. and Leeds'; the ' Gt, 
 North of Eng.' (from York to Darlington) comes in as the first part 
 of the present East Coast route ; the Glasgow and Greenock 
 appears; and the famous 'Eastern Counties' (having its act as the 
 biggest English railway) is open to Brentford. In (8) the G. W. R. 
 is complete, having reached Bristol, and a connecting line has reached 
 Cirencester for the North and Wales. In (12) Brighton is reached 
 from London. In (13) trains can run from Brighton, through Londonj 
 Derby, York, and Darlington, and thence over the first passenger linfl 
 to Stockton, and on through Hartlepool and Sunderland to Newcastlej 
 on-Tyne. 
 
 1842 In (15) the G. W. R. has its connection to Bridgwater ; (i6j 
 trains run from Derby to Birm. direct, and the 'Edinb. and Glasgow] 
 is open ; with (17) the SOUTH EASTERN appears to Tunbridgd 
 (via Reigate). By (18) there is the first Irish line (for Bradshaw] 
 from Belfast to Lisburn ; and Willesden appears on the Lond, and 
 Birm ; in (19) the famous Manchester and Birm. is complete, and 
 'Dublin and Kingstown' is shown for Ireland. [The last lot No. 19 
 it may be noted is a London edition]. 
 
 1843 Of the next four issues (all published in London) we see ia 
 No. 20 that the S. E. R. is at Ashford, that the Lond. and Birm. traini 
 are improving in speed ; and that the curious York and Newcastle 
 route is very clearly shown. In (21) the G. W. R. System extendf 
 to Beam Bridge. In (22) the S. E. R. reaches Folkestone ; and in 
 (23) the railway has crept down the Cumberland coast to Maryportj] 
 
 1844 With (24) Exeter is reached, and the S. E. R. is at Dover: bjj 
 (25) the G. W. R. has its Oxford branch, the West London is openj 
 the York trains run straight to Gateshead opposite Newcastle anq 
 2^ hours are saved over the roundabout Stock, and Darin, route. 
 
 1845 In (28) the Grand. June, has extended to Lancaster ; a 
 railway has appeared in Cornwall (Redruth) passing the famouaj 
 Camborne. 
 
 1847 In (29) Jan. issue the railway has extended from Exeter to! 
 Newton ; the L. and N. W. R. has been formed, and branched toj 
 Peterboro. The West Coast route extends to Carlisle. The 'Midland', 
 since its amalg. has extended to Lincoln, and the East Anglian, 
 appears. The Manch. and Leeds is completed and extending. The* 
 N. B. R. runs from Edinb. to Berwick, and the Irish ' Great Southernj 
 and Western ' to Carlow. One of the first things to notice in tha 
 Nov. issue (30) should be the Canterbury and Whitstable now connected, 
 with the South Eastern, from whence lines run to the Leic. andj 
 Swann., GEO. STEPHENSON could at last ride^from one td 
 the other, and the times of both old lines are now given : the L.^ 
 and S. W. is at Salisbury and Dorchester : the ' Trent_ Valley ' appears | 
 the East Coast is complete except for the Border Bridge, locomotive^ 
 I have reached Windermere ; run along the picturesque Old Whitbjw 
 and Pickering ; and through almost every important centre exceptt 
 the unfortunate Staffordshire Potteries. 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
The Time Tables continued [History of the Lines. 
 
 Bradshaw's Companions. Nos. i and 2 can only be 
 supplied in facsimile. All the remaining copies are 21 / each, 
 except Nos. 4, 21, 23, 29 and 30, which have been kindly 
 lent us only for collating purposes from the fine collection of 
 Mr. SMITHSON. 
 
 BRISTOL AND BATH. 
 
 1843 237g HE G.W.R. opened from BATH to BRISTOL Sept. 1840. 
 On the approaching completion of the line at both ends 
 John Hayward of Bristol issued an 8pp. leaflet, ballad like 
 in shape, and "poetical" prose in nature, describing a walk 
 down the line, and the works on the way. At Saltwood 
 Tunnel he speaks of the loco " MERIDIAN " made by Hawthorns the 
 builders of the " SUN " and " SUNBEAM " running at east end of 
 line. At BRASS MILLS the line is nearly complete and when he arrives 
 at the BATH viaduct he says -'The G.W.R. has thus far been 
 completed." At the end he gives times of starting the up trains 
 running at each hour between 8 and 8 except at i and 3 ; there are ten 
 up and eleven down, 6 or 7 calling at KEYNSHAM. (Fares (ist) 2/6. 
 Bris. to K. 1/6. Bath to K. 2/-). Probably the only copy in existence. 
 
 The Bristol and Bath Railway Guide. 8pp. with view 
 of loco (NORTH STAR style). 2i/ [1840] 
 
 Germany and Belgium. 
 
 .844 238 1bERE is a very neat little combined ATLAS and TIME 
 TABLES "contenant le service complet de toute 1'ann^e, 
 ainsi que les tarifs, reglements, et ordonnances qui y ont 
 rapport, avec les cartes speciales des principaux chemins de 
 fer." The numerous little maps are coloured. I see that on a Berlin 
 line one was not allowed to SMOKE in a ist class carriage at all ; but in 
 a second if not objected to. 
 
 Hendschel. Atlas des Chem. d. Fer de 1'Allem., de 
 
 le Belgique, et de L'ALSACE. About 200 pp. 16 21 / 1844 
 
 COMIC BRADSHAW. 
 
 1848 238a {THE Comic Bradshaw very comic, but as for Bradshaw? 
 Well Mr. Reach perhaps forgot that except to show the 
 9.20 train to JERICHO, etc. Mr. HINE shows some 
 passengers who could take most men out of the mumps. 
 The text itself claims that it contains 
 
 " Parodies which make men grin 
 "Funny cuts which draw the tin." 
 
 Reach, A. B. The Comic Bradshaw. Illus. by Mine. 
 64pp. 1 8 wr. 25; [1848] 
 
 WILTS AND SOMERSET. 
 
 848 238b ^HE extravagant mania days had passed when the 
 
 W. & S. opened and it began life by feeling the pinch of 
 the times. The paper below announces the opening of the 
 line, gives times, connections with Padd. and Exeter trns., 
 fares etc., and states thnt the trains run in connection with 
 the " LONG TRAINS" of the G.W.R. (with which Co. it 
 amalgamated). 
 
 Opening of Wilts and Somerset Ry. , Chippenham to 
 Westbury. Sheet of Times and Fares. 10/6 5 Sept. 1848 
 FIRST SCOTCH "A. B. C.' 
 
 849 239 {Tins interesting old sheet, the first one arranged 
 
 according to towns, showed fares, names of the railways, 
 
78 
 
 The Time Tables continued [History of the Lines. 
 
 times of starting (with extreme lucidity under "Morning," 
 " Afternoon "), Coaches and Ferries were given, while the 
 "CALEDONIAN" announced a reduction of fares between Edinb. and 
 Glas., and the STIRLING and DUMFERLINE "a Call" of 2. There 
 were three routes between Edin. and Glas. (two by " E. and G.") 
 Fares to Berwick and to Carlisle six prices. The stated speed per 
 mile express 2 min. ; mail 2^ ; ord. and parl. 3 min. A fine memoir of 
 railway Scotland in 1849. 
 
 Redpath's Edin. and ; District Time? Tables. No. i 
 and No. 3. Dec. 1849 and Feb. 1850. Each 8 pp. 4 <=ewn, 5/ 
 
 Manchester Railway Guide. 
 
 1851 240 QHE tables below form an A. B. C. guide to 104 Stations. 
 Out of these 39 belong to the " Lancashire and Yorkshire " 
 Ry. (showing its early importance to Manchester), 34 to the 
 " L. and N. W. R." ; 16 to the " East Lancas." and 15 to 
 the "M. S. and|L." 
 
 Bradshaw's Manchester Ry. Guide. No. u, May 1851 
 16 pp. and map, 8,* in new boards, edges found cut. Very 
 uncommon, 10/6 
 
 DUNDEE. 
 
 1857 241 iHE neat duodecimo tables below show some noteworthy 
 points of the early Scotch system, such as the Family Season 
 Ticket, and cheap return Pleasure Party Tickets. Smoking 
 is not yet allowed, and people still travel in their own 
 carriages. Cheap Sat. Excursions are run to Edin., and lines run 
 south to LONDON and north to ABERDEEN. Among advts. an Edinl 
 hotel invites Dundee custom with : 
 
 " Good beds, well aired strong coffee, tea, 
 
 Simps, Kteaks, chops, fish, as your taste may be. 
 
 The parlours comfortable clean, 
 
 Where daily may the news be seen." 
 
 Dundee and Arbroath Ry. Time Tables. The 12 
 
 issues of 1857, bound, 12, in one vol. 10/6 
 
 The Story of Brads haw. 
 
 189O 24ia MR. Percy Fitzgerald, the industrious author of The Book 
 Fancier, says in the pages below that "there are but few 
 instances, of every single copy of a book having- altogether 
 disappeared, even in the case of those published centuries 
 ago. Yet it is extraordinary to find that the earliest 
 impressions of " BRADSHAW'S COMPANION " should not be 
 forthcoming, and these but a few specimens belonging to a 
 single year, 1839, should have remained. . . Play bills 
 . . some over two hundred years old, have still contrived to survive 
 having, as it were, 'nine lives,' but the more substantial ' Bradshaw' 
 seems not to have come down, as Sterne says, 'the gutter of time. 
 And yet they were books in regular form, bound in cloth . . and 
 there was merit enough in the neatly executed plans, maps, &c. , to 
 ensure their preservation. Of these rare little volumes, there is no 
 copy in the British Museum. . . ."pp. 25-26. 
 
 Fitzgerald, Percy. The Story of Bradshaw's Guide. 
 76 pp. 1 6 i/ post free 1890 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
79 
 
 Steam Carriages. 
 
 Steam Locomotion had its Birth on the Common 
 W. B. ADAMS. 
 
 Below will be found some special descriptions of OUR EARLIEST LOCOMOTIVES 
 (Steam Road Carriages), pushed at first as competitors, and afterwards as adjuncts, 
 to rail ways. The following are inodaru references to the subject : 
 
 [" In March, i859], Lord Stafford's little engine started from Messrs. Have's Works, 
 Stoney Ktratford, with the Marquis of Stafford, Lord Alfred Paget, aiicl two Hun- 
 garian Noblemen. They proceeded through the town at a rapid pace, and after & 
 short trip returned to the Wolverton Railway Station. The trip was in all respect* 
 successful ; and shows, beyond a doubt, that steam locomotion *or common roads i* 
 practicable." (i.e., Without rails and for passengers.) The "Engineer," March, 
 3859. 
 
 "Steam power on common roads to carry Merchandise 1 would only cost half what 
 horses do. 'The "Engineer." 
 
 " Steam coaches can work 50 miles of road for about the cost of 2 miles of railroad. ' 
 Young (p. 150). 
 
 Bates of Cau-iage0. 
 
 Cugnot 1769 
 
 Evans 1772 
 
 Murdock 17 
 
 Symington . . . . 17 
 
 Trevithick .. .. 1804 
 
 Griffiths (by Bramah) . . 1881 
 
 Gordon 1822 
 
 Guruey 1822 
 
 DRAWINGS. 
 
 828 242 ZlHE Geometrical Drawing below gives a plan and eleva- 
 
 tion ol GURNEY'S CARRIAGE (about 15" x 18"), and with it 
 
 is the elevation of -.mother Steam Carriage (24 x 18) 
 
 Two Drawings of Steam Carriages. io/ 1828 
 
 GURNEY. 
 
 829 243 0URNEY was the first extensive projector of Steam Car- 
 
 riages. Dr. Lardner devotes many pages to him in his yth 
 edition of " The Steam Engine," 1840. In the following 
 pages no less a man than JOHN HERAPATH, the accomplished 
 editor of the Railway Magazine, describes the advantages of Curacy's 
 Carriages to the Duke of Wellington. 
 
 Herapath (John) on Gurney's Steam Carriage. 48pp. 
 8 2i/ 1829 
 
 COMMONS' REPORT. 
 
 831 244 ^BELOW is AN ORIGINAL ABSTRACT of the celebrated 
 REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE of the House of Commons on 
 " Wheeled Vehicles propelled by Steam or Gas." 
 Abstract of Report on Steam Carriages. 16 pp. p8 
 2i/ 1831 
 
 GORDON. 
 
 ,832 245 /IftR. David Gordon's son Alexander, a Civil Engineer, 
 in 1832, published an historical account of STEAM 
 CARRIAGES to date with reference to all the chief steam 
 carriages and with illustrations of the LOCOMOTIVES of 
 TREVITHICK, BLENKINSOPP, HEDLEY (stated here to be 
 
 CHAPMAN'S) GRIFFITHS, GIBBS, GORDON'S, and others. It 
 is also valuable as giving a good account of the House of Commons 
 Committee EVIDENCE FOR STEAM CARRIAGES. 
 
 Gordon, Alex. Historical and Practical Treatise 
 upon Elemental Locomotion. 192 pp. and plates. d8 
 IS/ 1832 
 
8o 
 
 Steam Carriages continued [History of Locomotion, 
 
 Commons Report on the Steam Carriages. 
 
 183ft 245A {HE report below includes the evidence of GURNEY, 
 HANCOCK, FAREY (who prepared specifications for the two 
 former), RICH. TREviTHiCK, GILBERT, M.P., OGLE, 
 GORDON, GIBBS, TETFORD, STONE, M'ADAM, MACNEILL,, 
 TORRRENS, M.P., and decision in their favour. 
 Commons Sel. Com. Report. 118 pp. folio. 25/ 
 
 28 June 1832 
 GORDON. 
 
 1334 246 {Two years later Mr. GORDON brought out a second 
 edition with a slightly altered title, but with so many 
 additions and alterations as to make a new book. He 
 speaks of Earl Dundonald s (LORD COCHRANE'S 
 application of a rotatory engine to a steam carriage, MURDOCH 
 and GORDON'S combined experiments (with good explanation of 
 COMPRESSED AIR PRINCIPLE), ERRICSSON'S Caloric 
 Engine, GORDON'S Cogwheel loco, working inside a druttt 
 (illustrated), GURNEY'S and other Carriages. Gives good articles on 
 Boilers, on the HISTORY of STEAM CARRIAGES, and some 
 interesting points about ROADS, RAILROADS and LOCOMOTIVE 
 A P PLI AN CES. Many illustrations. 
 
 Gordon, Alex. Treatise upon Elemental Locomotion. 
 
 326 pp. d8 10/6 1834 
 
 Commons Report on Gurney Case. 
 
 1834 246A {HESE papers, dated 17 July, 1834, give the Minutes 
 
 of Evidence by G. GURNEY, HANDLEY, M.P., DADY, S.] 
 GURNEY, BULNOIS, ELLIS, WARD, BAILEY, ALEX.; 
 GORDON, THISTLETON, Drs. FARRADAY and LARDNER,J 
 M'NEIL, and WM. POOLE. On the opening page Mr. 
 Gurney refers to his visit as a youth to VIVIAN, and to' 
 seeing TREVITHICK'S experiments. In a further report of 10 July! 
 1835 the Committee credit Mr. GURNEY for first practical steam! 
 carriage, and an account of his occupation and a review of evidence! 
 are given. 
 
 Select Committee Report on Mr. Gurney's Case. 
 
 88pp. folio 1834 
 
 DITTO, 34pp. folio. 1835. 2 vols. 42/ 
 
 MACERONIS CARRIAGE. 
 
 1835 247 COLONEL MACERONI'S Steam Carriage power consisted 
 
 in NINE ROWS of UPRIGHT CYLINDRICAL TUBES, each roWi 
 
 containing nine tubes so he had got his 81 tubes proposed 
 in 1833 but not the steam blast. From the work below by 
 the *' highly gifted " Colonel much useful information and.' 
 amusement may be derived referring to the good old days of 
 Steam Carriages. 
 
 Maceroni, Col. (late Aide de camp to Murat, King of 
 Naples) Expositions and Illustrations of Steam Power 
 with description nnd view of his Steam Carriage. I26pp., 
 dS 257- 1835 
 
 LORD'S S. C. REPORT. 
 
 1836 247 A '{HIS is a Lord's Select Committee Report on a Bill to! 
 
 repeal prohibitory Tolls. Mentions that considerable pnK 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham; 
 
82 
 Steam Carriages continued [History of Locomotion. 
 
 YOUNG. 
 
 1860 252 /IfcR. Young .(with Mr. Holley) brings the Subject of 
 STEAM CARRIAGES down to 1860. He pleads that 
 , whatever work HORSES can do STEAM can do better, and 
 deals with ECONOMY of the subject, devotes over 50 pages 
 to the old STEAM COACHES, including Cugnots (illustrated), 
 the First Locomotive ever made [1769], discusses CONCEN- 
 TRATED WEIGHT and the advantage of DISTRIBUTED 
 WEIGHT, explains BOYDELL'S Wonderful TRACTION 
 ENGINE and ENDLESS RAILWAY, the use of Engines for 
 AGRICULTURE,forWARinINDIAas substitutes for ELEPHANTS 
 describes the UNITED STATES STEAM CARS, etc., explains 
 HOUSE OF COMMONS REPORT on Steam Carriages, gives 20 
 pages on Subject of COST, etc. and devotes 8 pp. to Thos. GRAY, " the 
 railway prophet." Numerous illustrations. A CAPTIVATING 
 INSTRUCTIVE LITTLE WORK. 
 
 Young- (and Holley) Steam on Common Roads. 4i7pp. 
 8 7/6 1860 
 
 REFERENCES. 
 
 SEE ALSO The Mechanics* Magazine, The American 
 Mechanics' Magazine, The Register of Arts (Hebert's) and 
 Repertory of Arts (Wyatt's) under MAGAZINES ; under 
 LOCOMOTIVES ; and under BIOGRAPHY (Trevithick). 
 
 on Carriages* 
 
 1837 253 {HE Editor of the "Mechanics' Magazine" was so 
 pleased with ADAMS' work on PLEASURE CARRIAGES 
 that he wrote a review of it extending 1 over 30 columns. 
 Carriages have a wonderful history and " Mr. Adams," 
 
 says the Editor, " has told it more agreeably than it will ever be tolc 
 again." He notices HANCOCK'S STEAM CARRIAGES and expects 
 further improvements. "STEAM will do," he says, " for PUBLIC, BUT 
 NEVER FOR PRIVATE VEHICLES," but he thinks railways now worked at 
 25 MILES AN HOUR will beat everything of steam. He makes \ 
 curious Statement as to the origin of the width of railway carriages. 
 
 Adams, W. B. English Pleasure Carriages. Illus. 
 ^ cloth. 10/6 1837 
 
 Street IRaflwags- 
 
 1836 254 'Q/vvo marked features of the book below by FAIRBAIRN , 
 are his advocacy, and his illustrations of, STREET RAILWAYS 
 (by steam locomotion) and his proposals for CONNECTING 
 SCOTLAND WITH IRELAND, and ENGLAND WITH FRANCE 
 
 by RAILWAYS OVER THE SEA. His Street Railways include 
 OVERHEAD RAILWAYS. He grumbles at the " Greenwich," the 
 " Southampton" the "London and Birmingham" and '* Great 
 Western" as premature, but is a strong advocate for economical 
 railways on roads. 248 pp. ably written and full of interest. 
 
 Fairbairn, Henry. Political Economy of Railroads. 
 
 d8 30; 1836 
 
 BIRKENHEAD. LEE. 
 I860 255 XEE AND NIGHTINGALE. Report of BANQUET given by 
 G. F. TRAIN, of Boston, U.S., at the opening of the FIRST 
 STREET RAILWAY in EUROPE (at Birkenhead,. 
 England) with account of line, opinions of the press and 
 names of monarchs and nobility invited. With view of TRAM, 
 CARRIAGE. 117 instructive and comical pages. 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
83 
 
 Street Railways continued. [History of Locomotion. 
 
 Birkenhead Tramway Opening. d8 cloth. 10/6 
 
 Liverpool, 1860 
 AMERICAN. KING. 
 
 1866 256 Six years later Mr. P. S. KING published 56 pages 
 briefly describing the different TRAMWAYS OF AMERICA, 
 Reports from 12 towns dealing with fifteen points. 
 Facts Respecting Street Railways. d8 wrappers, 
 7/6 London, 1866 
 
 BRIGHT. 
 
 1868 257 /J&R. HERBERT BRIGHTIH 1868 proposed a plan for London 
 Tramways in which the Coaches could leave the rails without 
 inconvenience. 
 
 Bright, H., C.E. Remarks on Street Tramways 
 as applied to London, 15 pp. and plates. 5/ London, 1868 
 
 Htmospbenc System, 
 
 " Succeeded perfectly . . the smoothness and luxury of travelling unequalled 
 With a little more perseverance all difficulties might have been overcome . . I 
 should not be surprised if lUtimately the atmospheric system conies to life a'raiii " 
 -Autobiography of Sir John Rennie. 
 
 ' 
 
 1827 
 
8 4 
 
 The Atmospheric Sj'stem continued. [History of Locomotion. 
 
 Atmospheric System. 
 First Practical Use. Clegg. 
 
 1840 262 /IRESSRS. CLEGG & SAMUDA'S System the first ever put 
 
 into practical use was at work on the " SILENT" Railway 
 in June and July 1840 and the following pages refer to trials 
 showing the advantages of the new system. Illustrated with 
 a folding plate depicting cat ridges > tubes , etc. 
 Clegg and Samuda's Atmospheric Railway. 23pp. 
 255 1840 
 
 Irish Atmospheric Railway. Pirn. 
 
 1841 263 /1&R. PIM'S Letter to EARL RIPON (President Board of 
 
 Trade) in explaining advantages of ATMOSPHERIC SYSTEM 
 referred to PREJUDICE against system, to expense of COKE, 
 and to advantages of STATIONARY ENGINES every three 
 miles, offering STEAM POWER FOR HIRE to GRIND OATS, 
 SAW WOOD, DRAIN LANDS, etc., and available eight hours out of 
 every twelve. 
 
 Pirn, Jas. Letter to Earl Ripon, 26 pp. With valuable 
 plates illustrating construction of line, Clegg and Samuda's 
 Carriages, etc. 8 2i/ 1841 
 
 Irish Atmospheric Railways. Pirn. 
 
 1841 264 /l&R. PIM, Treasurer of the Dublin and Kingstown Ry.. 
 
 here addresses LORD MORPETH on his introduction of a Bill 
 for a STATE SYSTEM OF IRISH RYS. , and single lines being 
 necessary advocated the ATMOSPHERIC SYSTEM, particularly 
 between KINGSTOWN and DALKEY, and .says CLEGG and 
 SAMUDA have got over MEDHURST'S " impracticable -water 
 valve" It is the fastest, safest, and cheapest system. He refers to 
 Mr. VALANCES PROPOSED SPEED OF 200 MILES PER HOUR 
 and limits to 1000 MILES PER HOUR. 
 
 Pirn's Letter to Lord Morpeth, 15 pp. hf. cf. 2i/ 1841 
 
 Smith and Barlow's Report. 
 
 1842 264a THIS Report states conclusions arrived at, details of 
 
 experiments and Pirn's Letters to Lord Ripon. 
 
 Smith & Barlow's Report to Board of Trade. 19 pp. 
 
 folio. 2 1/ 1842 
 
 The Irish Atmospheric Railway. Bee-gin. 
 
 1843 265 MR. PIM was joined by Mr. Bergin in advocating the 
 
 Atmospheric between Kingstown and Dalkey on account ot 
 the inclines, CURVES, etc., and here details the reasons for 
 his advocacy, and answers Sir Frederick Smith's and Prof. 
 Barlow's Report. 
 
 Bergin, T. F. Observations on the . . Atmospheric 
 Railway. 86 pp., 8 2i/ 1843 
 
 ATMOSPHARISCHE. BECKER. 
 
 1844 266 HT FRANKFORT, in 1844, FRIEDRICH BECKER collected 
 
 and translated the reports of Smith, Mallet, Samuda, Pirn, 
 
 etc. 
 
 Becker, F. Die Atmospharische Eisenbahn, 48 pp. 
 
 with plate, 8 $/ 1844 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
The Atmospheric System continued. [History of Locomotion. 
 
 Kingstown and Dalkey Line. 
 
 1844 267 HFTER a description of the Dublin and Kingstown line the 
 little work below describes the Dalkey line, the gradients, 
 and the pumping engine. 
 New Picture of Dublin. 352 pp. map, etc. 4/ 1844 
 
 Commons' Select Committee Report. 
 1845 26ya THIS includes Report, Proceedings, Minutes of Evidence 
 and Appendix (Accidents) including the questions of 
 Accidents, Gradients, LEAKAGE, Lines of Rails, 
 Maintenance of Roads, Stationary Engines, Speed. 
 Select Com. Rep. with Appendix. 2 vols, folio* 
 '95 + 33 PP- 25; 
 L'air Atmospherique. Dubern. 
 
 1S46 268 2lND TWO YEARS LATER, at PARIS, H. A. DUBERN 
 
 published a resume of the OPINIONS OF FRENCH AND 
 ENGLISH ENGINEERS on the subject. 
 Dubern, H. A. De 1'application de 1'air atmospherique 
 aux chemins de fer. 81 pp. 7/6 1846 
 
 Atmospheric. The System Explained. 
 TURNBULL 
 
 1847 269 HFTER ROBT. STEPHENSON had reported against the 
 Atmospheric System Mr. J. BOURNE, then Editor of The 
 Artizan, requested Mr. WM. TUPNBULL'S opinions for his 
 magazine. In the work below he enters into the theory of 
 the system, deals with what he considers the important matter of 
 LEAKAGE, and refers to Clarke and Varley's improvements in 
 DISPENSING WITH THE LONGITUDINAL VALVE. 
 
 Turnbull, Wm. Essay on the Air Pump and 
 Atmospheric Railway. 96 pp. 18 io/ 1847 
 
 3EIectrtcitg. ^Expansion. 
 
 Steam PROJECTILES of 1823. Under io per hour. 
 
 " As soon would the Woolwich people trust themselves to be fired off one of 
 Congreve's Rockets as trust themselves to the mercies of such a machine 
 (locomotive) .... at such a rate." Qu:-t. Review, 1823. 
 
 ELEC. PROJECTILES of 1893. Over 1000 miles an hour. 
 
 " With the electric motor a speed of 1000 miles an hour could be obtained and 
 they could even do greater things still, though beyond that point they perhaps 
 entered the region of projectiles rather than locomotives. "Daily News, 
 25th Feb., Dr. Hopkinson at the Royal Inst. 24th Feb. 1893. 
 
 LIQUID EXPANSION. 
 
 1839 270 XOCOMOTION by the amazing EXPANSIVE FORCE of a 
 CERTAIN LIQUID is referred to and connected up with the 
 authority of SIR HUMPHREY DAVY on p. 271 of a most 
 interesting little work on the 
 
 Roads and Railroads of Ancient and Modern 
 Countries. Published by Parker in 1839. 12 10/6 1839 
 
 Xiquto Bir. 
 
 1845 271 $>Y dropping " liquid air " into 2%. gallons of water Wm. 
 Evans hurled 20 loaded waggons along 3t the rate of a mile 
 a minute. For further particulars see No. 304 of the 
 " Statistics " below. 
 
 Salt, S. Statistics and Calculations [on] Railways 
 and Canals. d8 d. i<>/ 1845 
 
86 
 
 Steam Engines. [History of Locomotl 
 
 Steam jgnginee. 
 
 WATT and BRAMAH. 
 
 1797 272 ACCORDING to YOUNG, Jos. BRAMAH (inventor of th< 
 
 " press;" and the "Patent Brahmin" of " Sam Weller " 
 
 in Pickwick) was the inventor of the FIRST STEAM 
 
 CARRIAGE BUILT EXPRESSLY for PASSENGERS. Below he is 
 
 stoutly defending one of the HORNBLOWERS for infringing 
 a Patent of JAS. WATT'S. 
 
 Bramah, JOS. Q Letter to Sir Jas. Eyre. With loose 
 biog. 97 pp. 8 hf. bud. Very Rare. 2 2/ i?97 
 
 SMEATON'S REPORTS. 
 
 1812 273 3" T was under SMEATON, the builder of the Eddystone 
 Lighthouseandtheacknowledged head of British Engineering 
 that the first railway engineer, JESSOP, was trained. Mr. 
 SMEATON made the first portable engine, stated in the well- 
 known REPORTS below that he could remember those very 
 early tramways the first ever laid down in Yorkshire (see Vol. II. 375) ; 
 and suggested the first public railway at Loughboro. 
 
 Smeaton, John. Reports made on various occasions. 
 
 With portrait and plates. 3 vols, 4 cloth. 2 2/ .1812 
 
 CONGREVE. 
 
 1819 274 ^THE CONGREVE ROCKET figured prominently in the 
 famous Quarterly Review article on Railways in 1825. It 
 is interesting to have a memento of Sir William's own cheap 
 Steam Engine even though .not a locomotive. Whether 
 George Stephenson thought of Sir William's famous Rocket when he 
 christened his winner at Liverpool I am unable to say. 
 
 A short account of Sir William Congreve's Patent fo: 
 
 a Steam Engine. 43pp. table, and Elates > 8 17/6 181 
 
 STUARTS ANECDOTES. 
 1829 274a 3fAR and away the most delightful little work by which 
 to trace the DEVELOPMENT of the STEAM ENGINE is 
 STUART'S ANECDOTES. Numerous fine little plates show 
 the different engines from HERO to BRUNEL (including 
 Trevithick ?and Brown), PORTRAITS of Jonathan Hulls, Brindley, 
 Smeaton, Watt, Boulton, Hornblower, Cartwright, Fulton, Dodd, 
 M. I. Brunei, Sam. Brov/n, and Jacob Perkins, and numerous 
 facsimile autographs. Errors he may have made but the charm of 
 Stuart's descriptions is absolutely undeniable. 
 
 Stuart, Robt Hist, and Descr. Anecdotes of Steam 
 Engines, and of their Inventors. 65opp. 2 vols, 18 2 2/ 
 
 1829 
 Pambour first gives Formulae for 
 
 Powers of all Engines. 
 
 1839 274b ACCORDING to PAMBOUR Engines in 1839 must have been 
 to a large extent built by rule of thumb. He distinctly says 
 that until he published his scientific explanations 
 
 LOCOMOTIVES WERE NEVER SURE TO ACCOMPLISH ANY 
 GIVEN EFFECT, unless precisely modelled after one already tried. 
 They were sometimes made TOO STRONG and then they were 
 wasteful. At other times TOO WEAK, when the drivers loaded the 
 safety valves and AWFUL EXPLOSIONS WERE THE RESULT. 
 The formulae he had previously worked out for locomotives (see 1836 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
8? 
 
 Steam Engines continued [History ot Locomotion.. 
 
 edition infra) he had here EXTENDED to ALL STEAM ENGINES 
 
 Pambour (Comte de) Theory of the Steam Engine. 
 350 pp. d8 10/6 1839 
 
 REID ON ARAGO. 
 
 1840 2740 M. ARAGO, having published the first separate Memoir of 
 
 WATT, Mr. REID, at the instance of the GLASGOW 
 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, took exception to the small 
 credit given to WATT, and ALSO to SAVERY and NEWCOMEN 
 Reid, H. Remarks on Arago's Historical Eloge of 
 Jas. Watt. 68 pp. d8 21 / Glasgow, 1840 
 
 RUSSELL. 
 
 1841 274d DR.ROBISON wrote the STEAM ENGINE article for the 6th 
 
 Ed. of the Ency. Brit, and Mr. Russell for the 7th. The 
 pages below are extracted from the latter, and the preface 
 gives Watt's sketch of Robison. and also Robison's sketch 
 of Watt. 
 
 Russell, J. S. Treat, on the]Steam Engine. 331 pp. 
 + 12 pp. and plates. 8 7/6 1841 
 
 COMPOUND ENGINES. 
 
 1878 2746 BELOW is a prize essay on the relative merits of simple 
 and compound engines for battleships. 
 McDougali, N. Simp, and Comp. Engines. 87 pp. 
 and plates. 3/ I 8 75 
 
 Xocomottve 
 
 OLIVER EVANS. 
 
 1821 275 ACCORDING to Galloway (or Luke Hebert) Oliver Evans 
 
 was THE INVENTOR of LOCOMOTIVES and one ran in the 
 streets of PHILADELPHIA in 1800. The translation into 
 French of his Manual includes a biography and his famous 
 letter to the Lancaster Turnpike Road Company. 
 Doolittle's translation of Oliver Evans Manuel de 
 L'Ingenieur Mechanicien Constructeur de Machines a 
 vapeur. 222pp. and plates, 8 2i/ 1821 
 
 PARTINGTON. 
 
 1822 276 THflHEN FARTINGTON wrote STEAM NAVIGATION was the 
 
 only means of Steam Locomotion in good credit and if he 
 says but little of the coming application we see here the 
 first reception of it. " Land " Locomotives then were 
 known by the earliest attempts of Trevithick ^and Evans, Brunton's 
 Traveller was as important as any and Chapman's failure received mor 
 mention than Stephenson. He speaks of mechanical locomotion as of 
 very early date and puts Paris as the birthplace of steam locomotion. 
 Steam Coaches ' a 'poor idea ' he says, have recently been revived 
 
 Partington, C. P. Hist, and Deer, of the Steam 
 
 Engine (with criticism on Patents, Bibliography, Plates, 
 etc.) iSyxQOpp. 10/6 1822 
 
 STUART. 
 
 1824 277 /IfcR. Stuart set himself out to write the general history of 
 improvement of the Steam Engine. In the course of it he 
 describes and illustrates TREVITHICK'S LOCOMOTIVE ; 
 
88 
 
 Locomotive Engines continued. [History of Locomotion 
 
 STEPHENSON'S BRUNTON'S and CHAPMAN'S Patents are jus 
 
 mentioned and he wound up with high hopes of Jacob Perkins. Poo 
 Blenkinsopp was not even referred to but as the author estimated from 
 ,1500 to ^2000 as the cost of getting full information (p. 202) th 
 omission may have arisen from that. 
 
 Stuart, Robt. Descriptive History of the Steam 
 Engine. 228pp. d8 ist or 2nd ed. (both alike) io/ 1824 
 The third edition (also the same). 228pp. d8 io/ 182 
 
 Stuart, Davy and Clarke. 
 
 1824 278 IllftiTH another volume of Stuart's History is bound up 
 
 Sir Humphrey Davy's illustrated TREATISE ON THE SAFETY 
 LAMP (145 pp., 1818) and DR. CLARKE on the GAS BLOW 
 PIPE (109 pp.) 1819. 
 
 Stuart's Histoiy, with the treatises of Davy and 
 Clarke. 3 vols in I. d8 hf. bnd. 2 2/ 
 
 SYLVESTER. 
 
 1825 279 TKttHEN tne LIVERPOOL DEPUTATION went to see 
 
 STEPHENSON'S LOCOMOTIVES they took Sylvester " an 
 ingenious mechanic " with them. Below is his Report. It 
 formed one of the publications reviewed in the famous 
 Quarterly Review Article. [Mr. JOHN SYLVESTER also 
 supported ' Stephenson. Vide Biog. in Trans, of Civil 
 Engineers (infra)']. 
 Sylvester, Chas. Report on Railways. 39 pp. 8 
 
 2 2/ 1825 
 
 Mr. ADAMSON. 
 
 1826 280 MR. JAMES ADAMSON, of Cupar, Fife, contributed a 
 
 clever paper to the Edinb. New Philosophical Journal in 
 April, 1826, in which he says : EACH ENGINE ought to be 
 made for ONE DETERMINED VELOCITY . . No engine 
 
 yet in use has been intended to travel over SIX MILES an hour. The 
 HIGHEST VELOCITY I have witnessed was TWELVE MILES an 
 hour. Locomotives will be far more likely to be unable to get up 
 enough steam than to explode from too much. Not enough heating 
 surface but there are known means of getting more. Stephenson's 
 engines successful. [There is another paper by this writer in a rare 
 edition of LONGRIDGE'S REMARKS, pub. 1827.] 
 
 Edinb. New .Philos. Journal, April Oct., 1826. 8 
 
 half calf . Nice Copy, io/ LONGRIDGE'S REMARKS, ist 
 ed. 87 pp. 8 63! 1827 
 
 PARTINGTON. 
 
 1826 281 PARTINGTON'S Course of Lectures (with special 
 
 descriptions of Brown's Gas Engine, Perkins' Engine, and 
 Jonathan Hull's Pamphlet. See Bunder Steam Navigation. 
 
 GALLOWAY. 
 
 1827 282 (BALLOWAY claimed GREATER ACCURACY than Stuart ; he 
 
 described and illustrated Brown's Gas Vacuum Engine (then 
 attracting. great attention), BLENKINSOPP'S, BRUNTON'S, 
 TREVITHICKS', EVANS', and STEPHENSON'S Locos., also 
 
 PERKINS and CONGREVE'S Engines and JESSOP'S New Piston. 
 He spoke of GEORGE STEPHENSON'S exertions with locomotives 
 but also of their bad local reputation, that they were not to be used on 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
Locomotive Engines continued. [History of Locomotion. 
 
 the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, and that a principal objection to 
 them was inability to surmount the slightest ascent. 
 
 Galloway, E. History of the Steam Engine. 219 pp. 
 
 d8 (ist and 2nd ed. both alike) io/ 1827 or 28 
 
 STUART IN FRENCH. 
 
 1827 283 STUART being very popular his 3rd edition was translated 
 
 into French, but with omissions 
 
 " de quelques machines aiicieunes qui sont mises en mouvement par 1'alr echanffe." 
 
 Some of Stuart's points being " obscure" other authorities 
 were sought but 
 
 "malgre tous nos efforts, nous n'avons pu nous procurer cl'autres details," 
 
 thus proving Stuart not only popular but strictly original. 
 Stuart, R. Histoire descriptive de la Machine a 
 Vapeur. 382 pp. and plates, p8 boards. i$f Paris, 1827 
 
 Perkins, Brown, and Gurney. 
 
 1828 284 GURNEY'S STEAM CARRIAGE is illustrated and described 
 
 and the Engines of PERKINS who had " used steam of 
 greater elastic force than any one had ever dared to do 
 before" and of BROWN " the first person that matured a 
 machine for obtaining power and motion by the combustion of 
 hydrogen gas" are fully criticised by a Royal Institution Professor in 
 the work below: 
 
 Arcana of Science and Art, p8 5/ 1828 
 
 Lardner. Second Edition. 
 
 1828 285 IN the 2nd edition of his work on the] Steam Engine Dr. 
 Lardner devoted 13 pages to High Pressure Engines, 
 starting with Leupold and Trevithick, and giving 5^ pp. to 
 the wonderful PERKINS. He quotes Partington as to the 
 local astonishment and fear caused by the first American 
 Steam Boat. 
 
 Lardner, Dr. Pop. Lectures on the Steam Engine, 
 164 pp. and plates. p8 10/6 1828 
 
 Lardner. American Edition. 
 
 1828 286 PROF. Renwick in adopting Lardner's work for Americans 
 found it advisable to say more about HIGH PRESSURE 
 ENGINES and LOCOMOTIVES. He stated that long voyages 
 could never be accomplished by Steam because of the great 
 amount of fuel necessary. For railways Renwick liked stationary 
 power, said that rack rail locomotives had been successful, but that he 
 PREFERRED ROLLERS TO WHEELS. 
 
 Renwick's Edition of Lardner, 171 pp. p8 2i/ 
 
 New York, 1828 
 LIVERPOOL CONTEST. 
 
 1830 287 The Arcana of Science in 1830 and 1831 gave a description 
 
 of this Contest or "GRAND RACE for ^500," with 
 illustrations of the "ROCKET," "NOVELTY," and 
 "SANS PAREIL," Gurney's Carriage, Extracts from 
 Walker and Rastrick's Report, from the Scotsman articles, and from 
 Tredgold's list of railways ; Liv. and Manch. Ry., view of 
 Braithwaite's WILLIAM IV., note on Fordham's Air Engines, and 
 on railroad " SAILING " in U.S.A. 
 
 Arcana of Science. 2 vols, p8 cloth, io/ 1830-1 
 
 Stuart. Second Edition. 
 
 1831 288 A SUPPLEMENT continued the subject down to 1829 and 
 
9 
 Locomotive Engines continued. [History of Locomotic 
 
 mentioned JAMES* annular tube boiler, BRUNEL'S 
 expanding gas engine, BROWN'S explosive gas engine, 
 PERKINS' safety valves, but the LIVERPOOL CONTEST 
 
 not mentioned. There is tht fine portrait of JAMES WATT. 
 
 Stuart's Desc. Hist, of the Steam Engine. 249 pp. d8 
 io/ 1831 
 
 ALDERSON. 
 
 1834 289 MR. Alderson described and illustrated Trevithick, and 
 spoke of the " Steam Elephants " of Blenkinsopp, recorded 
 failure of Perkins' plan and of Americans who tried to 
 out-Herod Herod, illustrated Hancock's " SUN " and 
 sections of GURNEY'S Carriages, described some Stephenson locos, 
 illustrated THE NORTHUMBRIAN, and like many people at this 
 time approved of Steam Coaches as well as railway locomotives. 
 
 Alderson, M. A. Essay on Steam. 124 pp. d8 
 10/6 1834 
 
 The First Work on Locomotives Alone. 
 1836 290 COMTE DE PAMBOUR published his first edition on 
 estimating the powers of LOCOMOTIVES (in French) in 1835, 
 and he spoke of NICHOLAS WOOD as being out of date not 
 
 having heard of the latter's second edition of that year. Pambour was 
 the FIRST MAN however to DEVOTE A WORK SPECIALLY to 
 the LOCOMOTIVE. He remarks on STEAM PIPES that between 
 'two engines alike, in other respects. THAT ONE WILL HAVE THE 
 ADVANTAGE WHOSE STEAM PIPES ARE THE LARGEST, 
 but adds when the DIAMETER IS BIG ENOUGH for the 
 PASSAGE of ALL THE STEAM the BOILER CAN GENERATE 
 (at the biggest speed required) IT IS USELESS TO INCREASE IT. 
 At which Herapath remarked, " Yes! You can get more safety and 
 economy. Use the throtling valve" (Vide Ry. Mas:, vol II., p. 3.) 
 
 Pambour (Chevalier de) Prac. Treatise on Locomo- 
 tive Engines upon Railways. 365 pp. and plates, d8 
 7/6 1836 
 
 Renwick's Third Edition of Lardner. 
 1836 291 IN his edition of 1836 Dr. Renwick had of course to 
 withdraw many of the assertions in his first American 
 edition, and he here describes the Liverpool Contest, gives 
 Dr. Lardner's famous " simple rules" and adds his own 
 notes. 
 
 Renwick's 3rd Edition from the 5th Edition of 
 Lardner on the Steam Engine. 324 pp. d8 i5/ 
 
 Phil., 1836 
 
 Hebert's Edition of Galloway. 
 
 1836 292 IN the work below Mr. HEBERT brought down 
 GALLOWAY'S work to date in an " Appendix " bigger than 
 the original work. He described and illustrated the 
 CONTEST, and its Locos., including even BRANDRETH'S 
 
 CYCLOPEDE, a would-be competitor, worked by a horse, Perkins' 
 wonderful engines, numerous steam coaches, and gave many items 
 touching the railways. 
 
 Galloway Hist, and Progress of the Steam Engine. 
 
 With Appendix by Hebert, 863 pp. d8 10/6 1836 
 
 Lardner's Fifth Edition. 
 1836 293 JEAFFRESON in his Life of Robert Stephenson tells the tale 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
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 Locomotive Engines continued. [History of Locomotion- 
 
 of Dr. Larclner and his "simple rules" by which 
 parliamentary committees and others might be guided in 
 forming an estimate of a proposed road, how these rules 
 grew out of date, but got continually quoted against him to the infinite 
 amusement of the parliamentary bar, and amidst the suppressed titters 
 of practical engineers at the discomfiture of the man of theory. The 
 Simple Rules or "Plain Rules" as he called them appear in the 
 edition below, together with a capital critical chapter on the CONTEST, 
 and railway matters generally, another on Steam Coaches, etc., etc. 
 
 Lardner, D. The Steam Engine familiarly explained 
 and illustrated. 397pp. p8 10/6 1836 
 
 Liverpool and Manchester Locos. 
 
 1836 293a THIS is Mr. Dixon's full detailed list, not only including 
 the particulars given in Mr. STRETTON'S little woik (p. 31) 
 
 P(the Nos. in which correspond as far as 36) but also 
 dimensions of Boiler. Tubes, Weight, etc. The Nos. go 
 down to 44 and include " THE THUNDERER " of 1836. 
 " THE ROCKET " stroke is given as 18. Nos. 3, 7, 15, 
 17, 20, 25 are marked "SOLD," 5, 6, and 16 *' BROKEN UP," 
 and 8 and 10 "DONE WITH." Stephenson's "WARRING- 
 TON," "NEWTON," and "ACHILLES" are also 
 numbered I, 2, 3. 
 
 Mr. Dixon's 1 List of / Lon. & Man. Locomotiyes. 
 MS. / 47 \. Sheet abt. 3ft. x 2 2 2/ 1836 
 
 REID. 
 
 1838 294 IN Hugo Reid's little popular work on the Steam Engine 
 there is an illustration of the n inch, bell cranked, vertical 
 cylinder locomotive " EXPERIMENT," and a note that ^ 
 Ib. coke per mile is now required and that tubes are generally 
 90 i % inch. Mentions Farey's good opinion of STEAM 
 CARRIAGES. He gives a very clear account of P^ngines generally 
 and Steam Vessels, and brief but clear accounts of Ry. Locos., Steam 
 Coaches, and Rotary Engines. 
 
 Hugo Reid. Pop. descrip. of the Steam Engine. 
 
 With woodcuts 10/6 1838 
 
 Tredgold on the Steam Engine. 
 1838 295 OF the three LOCOMOTIVES illustrated and described here 
 (among numerous other engines for steam vessels, etc.) is a 
 curious old loco, of pre-Contest days having two (vertical) 
 cylinders and fire places and a beam working cranks attached 
 to the spokes, and in which for draught the fire places had registers and 
 the chimney top two apertures. The frame rested on four spiral 
 springs in boxes, and both steam and smoke went into the same 
 chimney. The drawing was by Tredgold himself. Of date five years after 
 the contest and Tredgold's death comes ROBERT STEPHENSON'S 
 i2-5nch cyl. loco, for the little ^Stanhope and 'J'yne" line. There are 
 five plates showing its elevation, section, its safety valve, cylinders, 
 etc.. with full descriptions. Then come the plates, and full account of 
 Stephenson's loco, built for Cubitt in 1836. 
 
 Tredgold on the Steam Engine. Edit, by Woolhouse, 
 
 2 vols, thick 4 2 2/ 1838 
 
 295a Another Copy. With the text in 4 and the plates in the 
 improved folio style. 2 vols, 4 and fol. 2 io/ 1838-4 
 
 ARMSTRONG'S OPINIONS. 
 1839 296 MR. Armstrong (after an experience of locos, since lf5' 
 
 
9 2 
 
 Locomotive Engines continued. [History of Locomotion. 
 
 here asserts that the cause of the greatest difficulty which 
 railway engineers have yet had to contend with is WANT OF 
 SUFFICIENT STEAM ROOM. That is partly why the 
 locomotive power has cost the LIV. and MANCHESTER Ry. from 
 ^30,000 to ,40,000 per annum. But he says that the invention of their 
 treasurer Mr. BOOTH has brought locomotives to such perfection that 
 they are perhaps INCAPABLE of FURTHER IMPROVEMENT. 
 
 Armstrong, R. Essay on the Boilers of Steam 
 Engines. Incl. observations on railway and other 
 locomotives, etc. 264 pp. d8 10/6 1839 
 
 PAMBOUR. 
 
 1839 2963 VIDE " Various Papers " under STEAM NAVIGATION. 
 
 Adcock's Rules on H.P., Etc. 
 
 1839 297 " 11% gallons of water," says Mr. Adcock, "must be 
 evaporated every hour for each horse power " (p. 68). 
 When the steam is generated at low pressure all the caloric 
 above 220 will enter the boiler and into the composition of 
 the steam. But when at high pressure the extra caloric will, by the 
 same law, pass through the flues of the chimney and be lost." 
 
 Adcock, H. Riiles and Data for the Q Steam Engine, 
 
 Stationary, ancl Locomotive. 88 pp. p8 10/6 1839 
 
 The Greenwich Railway. 
 
 1839 299 THE OLD GREENWICH RAILWAY illustrations from the 
 work called Graphic Illustrations appeared later on in The 
 Beauties and Wonders of Nature and Science^ edited by 
 " Linney Gilbert, A.M., assisted by his literary friends." 
 This contains the OLD GREENWICH ENGINE, a birds-eye view of 
 GREENWICH RAILWAY, and also a view of the 
 " NORTHUMBRIAN," views of the old FIRST, SECOND, and 
 THIRD Class Trains, of some houses under Deptford Railway Arches, 
 notes on railways, all referring to 1838 or 1839, and other matters. 
 
 Beauties and Wonders. d8 10/6 [circa 1839] 
 
 RENWICK. 
 
 1839 300 A WELL written, nicely printed, and lucid account of the 
 
 Steam Engine, including chapters on STEAM NAVIGATION 
 urging American v. English claims (with a reminder of the 
 antiquity of wheel vessels), remarks on LOCOMOTIVES 
 which he says can drag anything less than 32 times their own weight, 
 describes and illustrates one of DUNHAM'S LOCOS. (like the 
 Lickey Engines but with cylinders inside the frames) as typical of the 
 best " Americans." and urges EVANS' claims [reasonably I think] 
 before RO BISON'S. Stales also that " BALTIMORE and OHIO" 
 Ry. was co-eval with the " Man. and L." and that American Locos, 
 have been exported. 
 
 Renwick, Jas. Treatise on the Steam Engine. 327 pp. 
 
 and plates. d8 25/ N.Y. 1839 
 
 Pambpur on Locos. Second Edition. 
 
 1840 301 IN his second edition the Author gives the results of his 
 
 further experiments on the resistance of trains and also the 
 means of ascertaining the velocity, load, expansion, and 
 counterweight which produce the maximum useful effect. 
 He strongly objects to what Mr. WOOLHOUSE in his edition of 
 " TREDGOLD " gives as an analysis of his theory. Of course he 
 discussed the resistance of the air and wound up with certain tables. 
 
 Published by Edward Baker. John Bright Street. Birmingham. 
 
 \ 
 
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 Locomotive Engines continued. [History of Locomotion. 
 
 Whether these tables proved (as Herapath did) that the air alone would 
 prevent trains going at 60 miles an hour I am unable to say. 
 
 Pambour. Prac. Treat, on Locomotive Engines. 
 
 2nd edition. 583 pp., 5 plates. 10/6 1840 
 
 Pambour. French Text. 
 
 184O 302 BELOW is a copy of the illustrious Pambour's second 
 edition on Locomotives in the original French. 
 Pambour, Comte. Traite . . . des Machines 
 Locomotives. Deuxieme ed. 660 pp. and plates. d8 
 10/6 Paris, 1840 
 
 LARDNER. 
 
 1840 303 DR. LARDNER though he did make some mistakes in 
 
 early days was unquestionably a lucid and a brilliant writer 
 and below he gives twenty pages on the LIFE of WATT 
 bristling with interest, one hundred pages about the EARLY 
 LOCOMOTIVES and the CONTEST, twenty pages on the STEAM 
 CARRIAGES, and two fine chapters on STEAMSHIPS ; the whole 
 accurately and artistically illustrated, and printed in the best style of 
 Spottiswoode. 
 
 Lardner, D. The Steam Engine. 535 pp. Illustrated. 
 d8 cloth. 10/6 1840 
 
 MANAGEMENT. 
 
 1841 304 UNDER an amusing review on p. 305 of the Railway 
 
 Monthly fournal y in true LECOUNT style, a very neat little 
 
 GUIDE tO the MANAGEMENT of a LOCOMOTIVE, by Mr. 
 
 Gregory is spoken highly of. THE AUTHOR WAS 
 ENGINEER on the old CROYDON line, whose officers the review 
 blamed for holding a "HUMBUG CONFERENCE" instead of 
 attending to such matters as were here dealt with. It was the first 
 work of the sort issued. 
 
 Gregory, C. H. Rules for the Management of a 
 Locomotive Engine. 48 pp. 12 10/6 1841 
 
 HOBLYN. 
 
 1842 305 IN cleverly chosen sections we get here an elem. account 
 
 of the Steam Engine, dealing with (i) Principles (2) the 
 Engine up to SMEATON (3) Era of WATT (when atmospheric 
 gave way to modern engines) (4) the principle of EXPANSION 
 (5) Engine dissected and parts explained (6) Mechanical 
 power of Steam (7) LOCOMOTIVES (8) Steam Navigation. 
 A clear, attractive, little work. 
 
 Hoblyn. Man. of Steam Engines. 293 pp., p8. 
 10/6 1842 
 
 LOCO. DESCRIBED. 
 
 1843 306 THE large plates and descriptions below give a good 
 
 popular account of the working of a six- wheeled, uncoupled, 
 inside-cylinder, loco, with a domed fire-box casing, inc. 
 elevation, vert, section, end elev. section of ditto, and plan. 
 Basire, Jas. junior. Locomotive Engine. Illust. on 
 Stone. Folio, wrappers. io/ 1843 
 
 DUNHAM'S LOCO. 
 
 1845 307 THE PRAC. MECH. and Eng. Mag. Vol. IV. contains 
 an .... article which, after remarking that BALDWIN was 
 first success, loco, maker in U.S.A. and NORRIS the most 
 
94 
 
 Locomotive Engines continued. [History of Locomotion. 
 
 celebrated maker, gives (p. 103) desc. and view of 
 Dunham's (New York) Locos, with a new mode of strengthening 
 cranked axles. Says instead of HIGHER WHEELS rys. are 
 adopting the EXPANSIVE PRINCIPLE to locos. It saves 35% 
 fuel. The steam (35 to 60 pressure) is cut off at %rds of stroke, and 
 acts only by expansion for the other /^rd, Robertson's Steam Brake, 
 and American Bogie Carriages, are also spoken of and the latter 
 illustrated, and WM. STEWART writes to Editor to say he made a 
 loco in 1814 for the Parkend Colliery and ran it on the LYDNEY 
 RAILWAY. [I can find no other refce. to this ancient loco.] 
 
 Prac. Mechanic. Vol. IV. 10/6 1845 
 
 JOHN CURR. 
 
 1847 308 A remarkable book by a remarkable man is RAILWAY 
 LOCOMOTION by JOHN CURR of " New South Wales." He 
 has considerable contempt for the great body of engineers 
 who "confessedly did not know in 1844 THE TR.OPER FORCE 
 
 REQUIRED TO PULL A GIVEN TRAIN WEIGHT UP A GIVEN 
 GRADIENT at a GIVEN SPEED." And here he shows them. 
 Further on "RAILWAY TRANSIT, he says, can be effected 
 CHEAPER at a HIGH SPEED THAN at a LOW ONE," and 
 finally he winds up with a MANIFESTO To the British Nation in 
 which he remarks that his father was the JOHN CURR OF 
 SHEFFIELD WHO INVENTED CAST IRON RAILS, the 
 populace there being so angered by their use that they tore them up, 
 and John Curr Senior had to take refuge in a wood for three days 
 and nights ! 
 
 Curr, John. Railway Locomotion and Steam 
 Navigation, their principles and practice. 181 pp. d8 
 cloth. 21 / 1847 
 
 A TARTAR. 
 
 1847 309 WHOEVER " Veritas Vincit" was he must have been 
 
 consideredsomethingof aTartar. He dates from BIRMINGHAM 
 and possibly was Peter Lecount. He seems to have made 
 himself a stinging critic on all companies' locomotive 
 managers and to have " given them a character " in the press. Mr. 
 ALLPORT did not get off, he was compared to honest JOHN 
 DIXON, Mr. TREVITHICK, of Crewe, was accused ot glaring 
 ignorance before Mr. LOCKE, and it seems that the locomotive 
 engineer who came off scatheless after Veritas Vincit got his eye upon 
 him was a lucky fellow. " A pretty lot of them " come under review 
 
 Letters of " Veritas Vincit. " 232 pp. dS, cL 10/6 1847 
 
 TEMPLETON. 
 
 1348 310 TEMPLETON gives a fine plate of Crampton's " ultimatum 
 of the narrow gauge," the locomotive LIVERPOOL, and 
 also Bury's loco. ALBERT, sections, etc., with a capital 
 popular account of locos., data of principal rys., duties of 
 engine drivers, etc. He says the latter should be men of strong nerve, 
 who, when accidents happen in desolate places, can satisfy passengers 
 by active endeavours and intelligent conversation. 
 
 T empleton, Wm. The Locomotive Engine popularly 
 explained. 106 pp. p8 10/6 1848 
 
 THE "BRIGHTON" RULES. 
 
 1848 3iia THE little work below shows the Brighton Co.'s Rules 
 
 for Enginemen and others as issued 1848. It belonged to 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham: 
 
95 
 
 Locomotive Engines continued. [History of Locomotion. 
 
 J. Ward who is, I believe, still able to " spin a yarn " about 
 the old days. 
 
 London and Brighton Regulations. 41 pp., 12. lp. d. 
 7/6 1848 
 
 EXPANSIVE ENGINES. 
 
 1849 312 MR. HODGE in explaining the properties and advantages 
 
 of Expansive Engines incidentally illustrates a LOCOMOTIVE 
 made by SHARP for the SHEFF. and MANCH. RY." in 
 which " the expansion is effected by the slide valve alone, 
 and not by a separate expansion valve." 
 Hodge, P. R. Analytical Principles of the Expansive 
 Steam Engine. 172 pp. and plates. 4 io/ 1849 
 
 AMERICAN. 
 
 1850 313 THERE are four large plates with full descriptions of the 
 
 AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE "CROTON," built at the Lowell 
 shops for the HUDSON RIVER RAILROAD, in this 
 "Collection." 'C' has 12^-inch cylinders, is a double driver, 
 and one of the best at date for short local trains. 
 Amer. Engineering Soc. Collection of Drawings of 
 Amer. Machinery. Large fulio. Rare. 307 1850 
 
 TredgoIcB. Locomotives. 
 
 185O 314 "TREDGOLD is dead. Long live Tredgold !" He never 
 saw a respectable locomotive ; and yet one of the best books 
 on locomotives in 1850 bore his name, and formed a 
 separate portion of his work on the Steam Engine. It 
 consisted however of papers by different engineers, ten on locomotives 
 and management alone but with addition of three on stationary engines. 
 The former papers were as follows, the locos, fully described and illust. 
 by elevations, sections,. etc. (i) Sewell on Practical Management with 
 plates illustrating the IRON DUKE (1847) and PYRACMON 
 (G.W.R.) locos ; (2) SAMUEL'S EXPRESS STEAM CARRIAGE ; 
 (3) ARMSTRONG on the Boiler; (4) BARLOW on Sharpe's 
 OUTSIDE CYLINDER TANK ENGINE for the Manch. and 
 Birm (1847) ; (5) WOODS on Fuel and Evaporation ; (6) Stephenson's 
 famous description of his loco, repeated ; (7) CALEDONIAN 
 PASSENGER ENGINES (is-in. cyl. diam. 6-ft. whls. 2 o-in stroke); 
 (8) Bury's THE WREKIN (similar in all principal parts to his 
 LIVERPOOL of 1830) with cranked axles, horizontal cylinders, but six 
 wheels not four ; (9) Hawthorn's First Class Express loco. PLEWS ; 
 and lastly (io) Crampton's famous loco. LIVERPOOL (the "ultimatum 
 for the harrow gauge.") 
 
 Tredgold on the Steam Engine, Locomotive and 
 Stationary Engines [Volume complete in -itself]. About 
 250 pp. and 58 plates. 4 2$/ / 1850 
 
 1850 315 ANOTHER COPY, with the first eight papers only. I5/ 
 
 BOURNE. 
 
 1851 316 AMONG the following pages TWO LOCOMOTIVES of 1851 
 
 are described and illustrated with plates and woodcuts ; 
 one a BURY'S 14-inch coupled four wheeler with 92 2^j" 
 x io^-ft. tubes, the other a STEPHENSON'S 15-inch six 
 oW wheeler with link motion and 150 i%"x 15-lt. tubes. The 
 whole working of the locomotive is explained, and four wheelers are 
 defended. He speaks of the relative merits of brass and iron boiler 
 tubes, and of locos, being now in a transition state owing to the 
 establishment of expresses. 
 
 Bourne, John. Treatise on Steam Engines. With 
 numerous woodcuts and plates. 4 258 pp. i5/ 1851 
 
9 6 
 
 Locomotive Engines continued. [History of Locomotion' 
 
 Reid. Third Edition. 
 
 1851 317 IN Reid's third edition of 1851 one of BURY'S LONDON 
 
 and BIRM. Locos, is substituted for the old Experiment. 
 Puts top speed at 60 miles, and average express speed 30 
 miles an hour, and contains 30 pp. on Arago's statement in 
 his life of WATT as to Inventor of steam engines. 
 Reid, Hugo. The Steam Engine. Illus. 12 7/6 1851 
 
 Morris of Philadelphia. 
 
 1852 318 IT was William NORRIS who made the American 
 
 Locomotires for the LiCKEY INCLINE. SEPTIMUS NORRIS 
 here states that for twelve years he has been engaged with 
 his brother, who, he says, built the first loco, in the States, 
 and was the first engineer to surmount the Schuylkill Incline (i in i/t) 
 " He and I have made 530 locos. 17 of which run on the BIRM. and 
 GLOUCESTER RY. (England).;' The pages below are for mechanics 
 of all degrees and give many outside items on Rys. such for instance as 
 the Nos. of Locos, and Carriages, etc., on 46 British Lines. He 
 shows two American locos, of 1851. 
 
 Norris's Handbook for Locomotive Engineers. 300 
 
 pp. 8 I5/ Philadelphia, 1852 
 
 CLARK. 
 
 1855 319 THE work below is the best I have seen on LOCOMOTIVE 
 TO ENGINES. It contains no less th^n THIRTY-SEVEN FULL 
 
 186O PAGE PLATES showing them, besides other plates on the 
 CARRIAGES, WAGGONS, TURNTABLES, and diagram plates 
 of VALVE and LINK MOTION and CYLINDERS, while there are 
 numerous woodcuts, including a very fine plate showing 27 
 American locos, from 1837 to 1859. The text is by no means mere 
 description of the splendid plates, but is arranged under an entirely 
 original classification, and is full of items of historic interest, such as 
 the invention of TANK LOCOS, by Dr. CHURCH; of BOGIE 
 LOCOMOTIVES by ROBERT STEPHENSON, the origin of the 
 term bogie engine, and so on. The first volume gives text, the second 
 plates, and the third both text and plates as a supplement five years 
 later. Among the locos, described are STEPHENSON'S Tank L., 
 his S.E.R. Pass. L., BRUNEL'S Tank L. (for Vale of Meath). 
 HAWKSHAW'S Pass, and Gds. Ls. for Lancas. and Yorks., Locos, 
 for Egypt, BEYER'S Tank Loco, for Gt. N. of Scot., ALLAN'S Gds. 
 Loco, for Scot. Central, SINCLAIR'S Gds. for E. Counts., 
 FAIRBAIRN'S Vulcan, 1850, KITSON'S Leeds and Thirsk No. 8, 
 GOOCH'S Pass. L. SNAKE, and many others of interest. 
 
 Clark, D. K. Railway Machinery. The two vols of 
 1855 and the extra vol of 1860 (by Clark and Colburn). 3 
 vols, folio, ^3 3/ 1855 to J 86o 
 
 INDICATOR. 
 
 1875 321 " TKftHAT the Stethoscope is to the Physician the Iridica- 
 tor is to the skilful Engineer, revealing the secret working 
 of the inner system and detecting minute derangements in 
 parts obscurely situate." So say Messrs. Hopkinson on the 
 7th edn. of the work below. 
 
 Hopkinson and Co. Engineers Prac. Guide. Work- 
 ing of the Steam Engine Explained by the Indicator. 345pp. 
 and append. 8 3/ (pub I2/) 1875 
 
 See also BERGIN on Atmospheric System (p. 84) 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham 
 
97 
 
 Locomotive Engines continued. [History of Locomotion. 
 
 The Vacuum Brake and Vacuum Smith. 
 
 N.D. 322 (i "DClHERE is Mr. Smith, patentee of the vacuum brake ? Down yon- 
 der ; ask for Vacuum Smith, that's his Christian name, only it ought to 
 be Vaciius to agree with Smith. ' For further particulars see Williams' 
 Our Iron Roads, p. 445, and the book below. 
 
 Vacuum Brake. 8 folding plates and descriptions. 5/ 
 
 N.D. 
 THE GREAT NORTHERN ROUTES. 
 
 1855 322A Mr. J. Ward transferred his services to the G.N.R. 
 
 about 1855. He has oiled his mles and the affixed 
 
 gradient table as well as his locos. The signals of other 
 
 , lines are described and illustrated. 
 
 Great Northern Rules for Enginemen, etc. 68pp. 12 
 
 LOCOMOTIVE DRIVING. 
 
 lOO-fl -227 " The steam is up ; the engine Bright as sold. ; 
 
 1 J^J The Fire King ' echoes back the guards shrill cry ; 
 
 .SOOOJ The roaring vapour shrieks out fierce and bold, 
 
 A moment and Mke lightning on we fly." . ., 
 
 So begins Mr. Reynolds, and then goes on to say what may 
 or dofes happen on a locomotive. 
 
 Reynolds (M.) Engine Driving Life. I90pp. p8 3/ 
 
 1881 
 
 AMERICAN LOOO. 
 
 1869 323A BELOW is a large coloured drawing showing a Rogers' 
 New Jersey Locomotive. 
 Drawing of N. J. Loco, (usual size) 5/ 1869 
 
 HISTORY OF THE LOCOMOTIVE. 
 
 1892 324 MR. Stretton has just written a splendid little book to il- 
 lustrate the GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT of LOCOMOTIVE 
 ENGINES from 1803 to 1892. It sparkles with anecdotes,, 
 and over sixty locomotives are represented in the woodcuts. 
 
 llfi b 81 miles an hour, says the author, was done in 1853, 80 is at present, 
 
 however, the maximum pace. I see Mr. Stretton (p. 69) in speaking of 
 the Lickey Engines says, " it was a mistake to assume " that they could 
 not be made in England. But did not the English builders refuse to 
 supply ? 
 
 Stretton (C. E.) The Locomotive Engine. I54pp. p8 
 3/6 1892 
 
 Bijou Gorvesponfcence, 
 
 [The pi ices of any items not marked will be given upon application.'} 
 
 The Royal George. 
 
 1827 324a BELOW is Mr. DIXON'S ccloured drawing of the famous 
 old engine with which HACKWORTH is said to have made 
 feasible the retention of locos, on the " S. and D." A^note 
 below says it was sold to Hartlepoo'I, and gives other par- 
 ticulars mentioned by Mr. Stretton on his p. 21. 
 Coloured (Engineer's) Drawing of " The Royal 
 George." (about 3-ft. by 2) 3O/ 1827 
 
 Dixon and Earle on Tubes. 
 
 " ME. HARDMAN EARLE, ;t Liverpool Merchant, was a very active spirit in 
 the direction of the early Liverpool lines. He took a lively interest in th 
 construction and improvement of .engines." P.O. DIRECTORY, 1848. 
 
 1832 324b COPY of Letter John Dixon (Manchester) to H. Earle 
 
: 
 
 9 8 
 
 Dixon Correspondence continued. [History of Locomotion, 
 
 (L'pool.) on the superiority of light tubes over heavy ones, 
 etc. Mr. Dixon says that JUPITER was the first loco, to get an 
 entirely new set of tubes in her (12 Ibs. instead of 6 Ibs.). It 
 took 600 Ibs. copper but several tubes have burst and the extra weight 
 has been useless. Heavy tubes cost 60 extra, add 1000 Ibs. to the 
 weight and do no good, and I consider they injure the boiler ends. 
 Holograph letter from H. EARLE to J. DIXON, dated 23rd May, 
 1832 (but apparently in reply to above). I was in favour of heavy tubes 
 but am changing my mind and you add confirm, to my op. The 
 PLANET first shook my faith in heavy tubes. She has light ones 
 1832 (6 Ibs.) (some I find now shrunk to 4 Ibs.) but she has done double 
 
 what the JUPITER has. I consider she is better because she has a 
 larger boiler, more tubes, and a larger fire-box and blast pipe. (The 
 injury of tubes from intensity of blast is then referred to and the 
 instantaneous conversion of water touching tubes into steam). We must 
 have greater space between tubes ; or a larger boiler, more tubes, and 
 less blast 1 prefer the latter. Let us transfer PHCENIX into the 
 PLANET class, put copper ends to her boiler, copper under her fire- 
 box, and 140 tubes, one half copper, rest iron with copper ends. [3^ pp. 
 closely written.] 
 
 Ed. Dixon on the Man. and Liv. Locos. 
 1833 3240 OBSERVATIONS (by Ed. Dixon) on Locomotive Engines 
 and their performances on the Liv. and Manch. Ry. 
 Sept. 1833. A very lucid description of the L. & M. locos, 
 most of which have n-in. cyl., l6-in. stroke, plac. horiz. 
 under boiler, wheels 5-ft., press, of steam. 5o-lbs. Mentious VICTORY 
 'SAMSON,' the latter a large loco, for assisting at inc. planes. Says 
 halving the wheel diameter means halving the speed and doubling' the 
 possible load, puts 15 m. per hr. as ord. speed with a good load. If we 
 increase the engine power we dp not proper, inc. the friction. No 
 calculations of working power will avail without evap. power. The 
 best boiler is that which can most econ. evap. most water in prop, to 
 size and wt. The recent astonishing performances of locos, due to gt. 
 improvts. in boilers. Describes and illustrates the SATURN -and 
 refers to the JUPITER. (9 pp. folio.) 
 
 Drawings of Liv. and Man. Locos. 
 1836 324d The following refer to the Liverpool and Manchester 
 Locomotives, and are of scale about l%" to foot, and all 
 dated 1836, and signed by G. MILLER: (a) The Meteor, 
 showing side and front elevation (signed, September, 
 14, 1836). (b) Sections and Details of the Wheels of 
 Vulcan, Star, Meteor, and Caledonian (signed, Oct. 15). (c) Details of 
 Titan (signed, Aug. 20), on difFt. scale. (d) Elevation of a Tender 
 (signed, Oct. 4). (e) Elevation of Vulcan (Oct., 1836). (f) Details of 
 Titan, showing tube orifices (Nov.). (g) Friction Roller Apparatus 
 attached to Fire Fly, i" to foot (Dec.). (h) Plan and Section pf a 
 Loco (Aug. 16. 1836). (i) Front Elevation and Section of a Loco, 
 and Sections through Cylinder and Slide Case, dated Nov. [j] Brass 
 Section Pipe. difft. scale, Dec., 36. 
 
 Ten Drawings of the L. and M. Locos, of 1836. 
 
 2 IDS 
 
 Mr. Buckle re Murdock and Hackworth. 
 
 184-8 3246 IN a copy of a letter from Wm. Buckle it is stated 
 i^oH that in Murdock's engine the eduction of steam from the 
 piston is led up the slide valve, which is a tube with side 
 openings to allow the escape of the steam into the air, that 
 there is no sign of a blast pipe, ' the invention of which, it has generally 
 been admitted, belongs to Mr. Timothy Hackworth.' 
 
 Published by Edward Baker. John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
99 
 
 Dixon Correspondence continued. [History of Locomotion. 
 
 Copy of Letter, 2>pp., 4. Wm. Buckle to Rich. 
 
 Roberts, Esq., dated 24 March, 1848 
 
 Richard Roberts, re "Sanspareil." 
 
 1848 324f A long, chatty letter to Mr. Dixon from Richard Roberts, 
 
 of the famous old firm of Sharp, Roberts, and Co., and maker 
 of the " EXPERIMENT " for the L. and M. (1833), and 
 many " Grand Junction " locos., refers to Mr. Garnett and 
 family and Mr. J. E. Taylor, and to his own family. He 
 has been ill, he says, dissolved partnership with the Sharps 
 in 1843, and Messrs. Fothergill and Dobinson have now joined him 
 in the Globe Works. He thinks from Mr. Dixon's letter that the 
 SANSPAREIL had a blast pipe at the contest, and the ROCKET 
 subsequently. He says that he heard some of the L. and M. 
 mechanics say that George Stephenson made a visit in the night to 
 the Sanspareil to see how the effect was produced. Then comes a 
 question as to whether Mr. D. knew anything of a French pamphlet [pre- 
 sumably Senguin's] describing the multitubular boiler before Booth's in- 
 vention. 'Mr. Benj. Hick, of Bolton, oftenspokeof it tome.' Gen. Pasley 
 wants the information for his History of Ry. Locom.' Then he asks 
 why the prize was awarded to Robert and not to George Stephen- 
 son ? and further ' You say the orifice of the blast pipe was gen. of 
 copper, but were you not the first to find brass vastly superior for 
 the tubes and pipes subject to ... heated gases ? * 
 
 Richard Robert's MS. Letter to John Dixon. 7pp. 
 
 p8 Dated Mane., Feb. 7th, 1848. 
 
 Fierce Rivalry between the Companies. 
 
 184-9 324g THE letter below gives a graphic description of the oppo- 
 sition of the Shrewsbury and Chester and Chester and Bir- 
 kenhead Railway Cos. over some coach opposition ending 
 in the barricading of the Chester Railway Station and even 
 in the calling in of the military (!) Bell agrees with Mr. D. 
 of monster engine's and expansion that it is spending money 
 to make a large engine to reduce to the power of a small one. In 
 last number of Herapath is a new light engine the Cambridge. Its 
 cost of working is 7^d. per mile. The average cost is now ^14 per 
 mile per week. The old L and M of 8 tons did good service as 
 Parnbour shows. Stephenson, Bidder, and Brunei are ruining rail- 
 ways with gauge expts. He then quotes the Engineer and Arch. 
 Jrnl., Feb., 49, and mentions a proposed light passr. loco, of his own 
 
 G. A. Bell's MS. Letter to J. Dixon. 6pp. 4. Closely 
 
 written. Dated Chester, 26 Nov., '49. 
 
 John Dixon and Light Locos. 
 
 1849 324h THE paper below is a copy of the letter to '''Herapath" 
 
 which appeared in that Journal, Dec. 8th, 1849 (p. 1231-2). 
 In advocating lighter locomotives he puts minimum weight 
 at 10 tons. 
 
 Copy of Paper contributed by John Dixon to 
 " Hcrapath" 
 
 Cast-Iron Tyres. 
 
 1863 324! IN thanking Mr. John Dixon for a series of photos of old 
 locos, Mr.Zerah Colburn, of The Engineer, says he concludes 
 that they had cast-iron tyres, " chilled," and that they were 
 slipped on without shrinkage, asks if they had a conical 
 .bearing. Speaks of two U.S.A. patents of 1840 and 1844, and says 
 Slip tyres were sold for years at 4d. per Ib , or 37 6s. 8d. per ton,plain 
 castings. 
 
 Colburn's Letter to Dixon, dated July ictVi, 8 
 
 
1 00 
 
 Water Locomotion. [History of Locomotion. 
 
 ftbirD Glass Carriages. 
 
 1845 324] THE pages below show the dimensions, particulars of 
 air and light, time on journey, whether doors are locked, 
 etc., on 26 railways, to which are prefixed 19 full-page 
 plates showing elevations, sections, etc., of the third class 
 carriages approved of. On some lines drily-one door was 
 available for each 50 passengers, and as glass was scarce a 
 carriage was either of " open ?' or- " horse box " shape. The 
 " Y. & N. MIDLAND " were about the most repulsive 
 looking, and the " MIDLAND " the best. 
 Commons' Return on 3rd Class Carriages. Folio. 
 2i/ 2yth June, 1845 
 
 Photographs of Locomotives and an Invitation. 
 
 (A Photographer who n-akes a speciality of Photographs of LOCOMOTIVES asks for 
 orders. Of course any such shull be sent on. And we might mention hre that 
 :uiy information as to photographs or drawings of EARLY locomotives whether 
 for sale or only for record will be welcomed. So also as to the whereabouts of any 
 curiosity relating to old railway days.) 
 
 Water Xocomotfon. 
 
 CANALS. 
 
 18O3 325 to 333 CANALS HAVE PLAYED so important a part in con- 
 nection with the Early HISTORY of RAILWAYS, that some 
 old records of them may prove of some interest. I shall 
 therefore briefly refer to a few, and taking them in order of 
 date the first will be the HISTORY of INLAND NAVIGA- 
 TION by J. Phillips. He was employed by the great Brindley, had 
 seen the American and Continental systems, and his work of 598pp. 
 
 1805 gives a notice of almost every important canal. In 1805 Zach. ALL- 
 
 NUTT, of Henley-on-Thames, quaintly describes and criticises the 
 river, an<d proposes to join it by canal to the Severn. He gives two 
 
 1819 coloured maps and 46 pages. In 1819 J. HASSELL wrote an his- 
 
 torical and topographical description of a Tour of the famous Brind- 
 ley's GRAND JUNCTION CANAL, illustrating with some first- 
 class coloured plates a district with ''an almost perpetual succession 
 
 1827 of variegated beauty/' In 1827 N. W. CUNDY revived the idea of 
 
 a SHIP CANAL between London and Portsmouth, and Sir John 
 Rennie. supported by Mr. Baring (afterwards Lord Ashburton), sur- 
 veyed for a waterway for 74 gun ships and the largest Indiamen. 
 But ^7,000,000, the estimate, frightened everyone, .[The Londoa 
 
 1831 Chatham Railway (same length) cost over .16,000,000.] In 1831, 
 William [afterwards Sir William] FAIRBAIRN (one of the first 
 builders of 'iron ships), wrote a little work, on the vise Of STEAM on 
 
 1832 CANALS, and illustrated "suitable steam boats. In 1832 Wm. 
 [afterwards Sir Wm.] CUBITT (the maker of the South Eastern 
 Railway and the Liverpool Landing Stage), briefly describes a plan 
 for shortening the line of canal between London and Birmingham. 
 
 1834 In 1834 Henry E. FLYNN wrote on the question of a Dublin and 
 Kingstown SHIP CANAL, criticising Mr. Wm. Cubitt's plan. 
 
 1835 In 1835 came the Act of Amalgamation, &c., of the " BIRMING- 
 1850 HAM CANAL NAVIGATIONS" (with map) ; also of 1850 comes 
 1864 a coloured map of the latter. And, lastly, in 1864 Col. Sir Proby 
 
 CAUTLEY publishes for private circulation his reply to Gen. Sir 
 
 Arthur Cotton on the Heads of the GANGES and JUMNA 
 
 Canals. 
 
 (325) Phillips History of Canal Navigation, d8 , lo/6, 
 
 1803 ; (326) Allnutt on the River Thames, 2.1 /, 1805 J 
 
 (327) Hassell's Grand function Canal, I47pp., -with *ine 
 
 coloured plates, 2T/, 1819 ; (328) Cundy Ship. Canal Lon- 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
, 101 
 
 Water Locomotion continued. iHisrr7of Locomotion, 
 
 don to Portsmouth, 5>8pp.,- #>^j,I crV;,' -d8 c , "kj/: '1827 ; 
 (329) Wm. Fairbairn on Steam Canal Navigation, 93pp. 
 and plates, 21 /, d8, 1831 ; (330) Cubitt on a Canal from 
 London to Birmingham, 7pp. and map, 7/6, 1832 ; (331) 
 Flynn on Dublin and Kingstown Ship Canal, 83pp., 
 10/6, 1834; (332) Birmingham Steam Navigation Co.'s 
 Act, i58pp., fcp folio, 1835, with map and with FURTHER 
 MAP of 1850, 10/6 ; (333) Cautley on the Ganges Canal, 
 with maps, JO4pp., 7/6, 1864. [See also PRIESTLEY, 
 1831. No. 380.] 
 
 Steam navigation. 
 
 Bfrfpjo*- [Considering the important eomiertion -between RAILWAYS and STEAMBOATS, o 
 apology will perhaps fce needed for inserting here a few works relating to the latter.] 
 
 First Work. 
 
 1816 334 THE first separate publication devoted to a Steam boat 
 was no doubt JONATHAN HULLS description of 1737 : hut 
 as the Comet was not tried on the Clyde till 1812, 
 BUCHANAN'S work below may claim to be THE FIRST 
 SEPARATE BOOK DEALING WITH STEAM VESSELS GENERALLY. It is a 
 wonderfully big book for the subject's age. Though a Glasgow 
 publication it honours FULTON more than BELL, it deals with Steam 
 Boats on BRITISH, IRISH, and AMERICAN RIVERS, gives account of ' 
 VARIOUS PROPOSED MODES of PROPULSION, and is a critic of STEAM 
 BOAT BUILDING. There are seventeen plates. 
 
 Buchanan, Robertson (C.E.) Practical Treatise on 
 Propelling- Vessels by Steam. 187 pp. 17 plates, c!8 
 boards. 3 3/ Glasgow, 1816 
 
 Steam Navigation. 
 
 1822 335 As Partington is valuable for his reference to 
 LOCOMOTIVES even more so is he with regard to STEAM 
 VESSELS. After his descriptions of the value of STEAM 
 ENGINES GENERALLY (then numbering 10,000) and of some 
 
 of the most powerful in the world, he devotes seventy-one pages to 
 
 9dt f! STEAM NAVIGATION including the work of HULLS, DUQUET, 
 
 JUOFFKOY, FULTON, MILLER, SYMINGTON, and STANHOPE, 
 
 LINNAKER, the Thames and Clyde Boats, and American Sieain 
 
 Navigation, and 18 pp. to the COMMONS. SELECT COMMITTEE of 1817. 
 
 He speaks of 400 tons as of great burden, and advocates for safety the 
 
 use of a SUBSIDIARY ENGINE BOAT, speaks of the traffic on the 
 
 flirsiS jrf^'ty' t * e an< ^ on t ^ e Adriatic, gives a list of the MISSISSIPI STEAMBOATS, 
 
 and says 100 ton boats cost 6000, Clyde Steamers ^2000. 
 
 Partington, C. F. Historical Account of the Steam 
 Engine. 90 pp. and plates. d8 ib/6 1822 
 
 The First Margate Steamboats. 
 
 [1823] 336 THE FIRST ENGLISH Steamboats plied on the Thames 
 to Margate, and in the reign of King George IV. Thomas 
 Nicholls presented the public with 323 pages descriptive of 
 the riverside. Reference is here made to the specially fine 
 river boats between QUEBEC and MONTREAL as being the 
 
 MOST PERFECT OF THEIR KIND. 
 
 Nicholls, T. Steamboat Companion. With map and 
 views. 1 8 2 1/ Circa 1823 
 
 The Largest Steamboats. 
 
 1824 337 A SUPPLEMENT to the Ency. Brit, contains Bell's and 
 Symington's Statements as to Mr. Fulton's enquiries from 
 

 102 
 Steam Navi^a^or} -rontmued, [History of Locomotion. 
 
 them and a fine little plate showing i5th century paddle 
 boat, HULLS Steamboat at work, and the " CITY of 
 GLASGOW," with a list of British Steam Boats the "SoHo" 
 
 being the largest in England or Europe, and Fulton's 'CHANCELLOR 
 LIVINGSTONE' the largest in America or in the World. Compared with 
 one of the latest 'liners' CAMPANIA, and giving the dimensions o 
 the new boat below that of the old ' CHANCELLOR LIVINGSTONE,' 
 we have : 
 
 Spd 8$m. p. h. Grew 24. Fulton (of 1823) was 165 ft. Ig. 520 tons burd. Eng, 75 ho. pwr. 
 ,, 22 knots. 330. 620 18,000 ,, displact. 30,000 ., 
 
 Supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. With 
 
 article on Steam Navigation. 4 boards ', io/ 1824 
 
 A Fine Little Work on Steam Vessels. 
 
 1826 338 A BOOK ^INTERESTING ALIKE for its practical criticisms 
 and an amusing variety of matter relating to Steam Vessels 
 was one by Capt. WALDRON, R.N., ornamented with some 
 
 PARTICULARLY FINE STEEL PLATES ON INDIA PAPER. It 
 
 urged that STEAM NAVIGATION was not so dangerous as Sailing, and 
 its pages and plates probably supplied the first hints as to avoiding 
 many little difficulties. HERO, WORCESTER, SAVERY, KEMPEL, 
 STANHOPE, NEWCOMEN, and WATT are noted. PERKINS Safety 
 Joints and Steam Gun, and FRANKLINS Duplex Generators are 
 fully described, as well as a SINGULAR AMERICAN IRON STEAMBOAT 
 now building for the SUSQUEHANNA, and illustrates and describes 
 THE SHANNON (London and Dublin Steam Marine Co.), old ships, 
 rafts, life boats, accidents, Lighthouses, etc., etc. It refers, too, to 
 loco motive engines (Blenkinsopps) on rail roads 'dragging sevet al 
 carriages carrying 8 to 12 persons, 'with luggage at io or 12 miles an 
 hour without the slightest accident,' and also to GIBBS- SUSFENSION 
 RAILWAY at Cheshurst (Herts.) 
 
 Waldron on Steam Vessels. With fine plates, 104 pp. 
 d8 boards. 2 $/ 1826 
 
 Partington, with Hull's Pamphlet. 
 1826 339 THE little work below described BLENKINSOPP'S loco- 
 motive, thought a 20 mile speed exceedingly improbable ; 
 fully explained Brown's Gas Engine (for propulsion of car- 
 riages by the expansion of carburetted hydrogen gas in the 
 cylinders), Trevithick's loco. Perkin's Engine, spoke of the Clyde Ves- 
 sels ' Comet ' (3-horse power, the ist), ' Elizabeth' (8-h.p., 2nd), 1813, 
 and ' The Clyde ' (srd), while * The Soho ' was the largest built [in 
 Europe]. And as an Appendix appeared a copy of Jonathan Hull's 
 rare Description and Draft of a Steam Vessel Apparatus. 
 
 Partington (C. P.) Course of Lectures on the Steam 
 
 flj/>y: v 3 9fngine. 9 2 PP- a d plates. p8 VERY RARE. 2i/ 1826 
 
 Origin of Steam Boats. 
 
 1831 340 EFFINGHAM WILSON published (in 1831} a capital little 
 75-paged HISTORY of STEAM BOATS. Speaks of paddje 
 wheels worked by men or horses, a model of a TEN GUN 
 SHIP worked by an Engine to replace sails advertised March 
 27, 1761 ; and also (three months later) the Speedwell 
 Yacht or River Machine, a model for working a ship in a calm; 
 speaks of Wntt, Miller, de Jouffroy, Stanhope, Symington, Oliver 
 Evans. Then in 1807 STEAM NAVIGATION. Mr. BELL, of 
 Glasgow (it says) took a model to Mr. FULTON, who got the en- 
 gines of the FIRST STEAM BOAT EVER USED (on th Hudson 
 River) from Boulton and Watt, of Birm. Gives Fulton's accounts 
 of his First Steamboat Voyage, and acknowledges his being the first 
 successful APPLIER of this power, records his poverty, and as also 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
io 3 
 Steam Navigation continued. [History of Locomotion. 
 
 that of Bell, the INVENTOR, details Bell's boats, and speaks of 
 Denny's ' Rob Roy.' Also describes ' THE MARGERY,' the FIRST 
 STEAMBOAT PLYING ON THE THAMES, and its immediate 
 followers. 
 
 Account of the Origin of Steamboats. 75pp. 8 so/ 
 
 Wilson, 1831 
 Various Papers. 
 
 1834 341 THE following important papers are bound together in 
 TO one quarto volume : MOSELEY on the Theory of Machines 
 
 1841 (1841); RENWICK on U.S.A. Steamboats (1839) ; Narra- 
 tive of Invention of Steamboats (addressed to Parnell) 1834 ; 
 Taylor and Miller's Expts. on S. Navig. (1834) ; Hall's 
 Improvements (1837); Grahame on Inland Communication (1835); 
 and Parkes on Steam Boilers and Steam Engines (1839), the latter 
 containing a most interesting criticism of Pambour's Calculations. 
 
 Collection of Papers on Steamboats, &c. 410, hf. cf. 
 
 RARE. 42/ < 1834 tO 1841 
 
 Hall's Improvements. 
 
 1835 342 THE boilers of Steam Vessels being much injured by 
 
 deposits and incrustations, Mr. Hall brought out his patent 
 
 described by Lardner (1836) to preserve the boilers from 
 
 the sea and impure water, to save one-third of the fuel, 
 
 &c. 
 
 Hall (S.) Pat. Improvements on Steam Engines. 
 
 2ipp. two plates, 8 10/6 1835 
 
 DR. LARDNER. 
 
 1837 343 ABOUT two years after Dr. LARDNER had asserted the 
 IMPOSSIBILITY of ATLANTIC STEAM NAVIGATION, and 
 the year before it was accomplished, the work below shows 
 him strongly advocating steam from India. It appears 
 that in July, 1834, a Select Committee of the House of 
 Commons reported in favour of the regular establishment of Steam 
 Communication with INDIA by the RED SEA, and of the testing 
 of the Persian Gulf and Euphrates route. The latter only had been 
 attended to, and Dr. Lardner, on behalf of the English Merchants 
 and Natives of India, drew up the work below, addressed to Lord 
 Melbourne, pleading for the Red Sea route, and compared it with 
 the Euphrates line. 
 
 Lardner (D.) Stearn Communication with India by 
 the Red Sea. With maps. I23pp. 2i/ 1837 
 
 Sailors and Steam Vessels. 
 
 1837 344 ONE CAN WELL UNDERSTAND that many difficulties had to 
 be removed before Steam was fully appreciated by Sailors. A 
 most interesting memento of the early days is seen in the 
 work below by OTWAY, himself a Sailor, who found 
 
 ENGINE MEN DESIROUS OF MAKING A MYSTERY OF THE ENGINE ROOM 
 
 with a vieiv to maintain a mastery over the officers \ He, therefore, 
 wrote this work in non-technical language for the information of his 
 brother officers, and dedicated it to LORD JOHN HAY THE FIRST MAN 
 
 WHO CONDUCTED WAR WITH STEAM VESSELS. 
 
 Otway, Robt. (Commander R.N.) Elem. Treatise on 
 Steam Navigation. d8 2i/ Plymouth, 1837 
 
 The First Atlantic Steamer. 
 
 1838 345 WHETHER <4 THE SAVANNAH" or the "THESiRius" 
 ii 
 
 was the FIRST STEAMER To CROSS THE ATLANTIC 
 appeared at any rate to be an open question in 1838 for I 
 
104 
 
 Steam Navigation- continued. [History of Locomotion. 
 
 have here a little book printed at Edinburgh for THOMSON 
 & Co. giving maps and shore descriptions of the BRITISH and IRISH 
 PORTS, and dedicated to the St. George Steam Packet Ca., mentioning 
 that to be able to say 'that their ship SIRIUS was the first Steamer which 
 dared to cross the Atlantic is a proud boast and not less so the fact that 
 their British Queen is LONGER BY 35 FEET THAN ANY VESSEL IN THE 
 BRITISH NAVY.' 
 
 Steam Navigation of England, etc. 36 pp. with maps^ 
 10/6 1838 
 
 A First Class Highland Steamer Guide. 
 
 184-5 346 THE exceedingly well-written Steamboat Guide below to 
 Scottish Highland Coast and Islands gives a special account 
 of the renowned lona (I Colm Kill). The work is evidence 
 of the great skill devoted in early days to these " guides.' 3 
 Dalrymple's Native Steamboat Companion. 218 pp. 
 1 8 7/6 1845 
 
 JOHN CURR. 
 
 184-7 347 MR. John Curr's work on Railway Locomotion dealt also 
 with STEAM NAVIGATION. Speaking in 1847 he says that 
 
 in 35 YEARS STEAMBOATS HAVE UNDERGONE TWO 
 
 VARIATIONS. In 1814 the ENGINE COULD BE STOPPED OR 
 
 SET ON AGAIN instanter (impossible with a great fly wheel,). The 
 SCREW PROPELLER was the other Variation. This he fights against. 
 He also speaks of the revival of the EXPANSIVE PRINCIPLE, and calls 
 'nrgflilthis ^fanaticism.' and refers to the l Great Britain as being 1500 
 nominal and 300 actual horse power. The principle, he says, was 
 known to WATT and he did not use it. 
 
 Curr's Railway Locomotion and Steam Navigation. 
 
 181 pp. d8' 2i/ 1847 
 
 First Lighthouse buiEt on Screw PiSes. 
 1848 348 WHEN IT BECAME NECESSARY in 1837 to have a fixed 
 light on the MAPLIN SAND (one of the numerous Sandbanks 
 at the THAMES mouth) Mr. MITCHELL'S offer was accepted 
 to lay its foundations on SCREW PILES, which, together with 
 the LIGHTHOUSE are described in the paper below. In both the 
 Eddystone and the Bell Rock SHEET PILING was used. 
 
 Redman and Manby on Mitchell's Submarine 
 Foundations (esp. Screw Pile and Moorings) and an 
 account of Mapiin Sand Lighthouse. 61 pp. and plates. 8 
 7/6 1848 
 
 History of Steam Navigation. 
 
 1848 349 WOODCROFT'S work on Steam Navigation is of unusual 
 interest. It goes thoroughly into the History of the sub- 
 ject, gives beautiful tinted plates showing Symington's 
 " CHARLOTTE DUNDAS "of 180*, Fulton's "NORTH 
 RIVER " of 1807, and Henry Bell's " COMET " of 1812, 
 other plates of Miller's Triple Vessel, Double Ships and Boats, 
 Stockton's NEW JERSEY, Ericsson's Screw Propellers, &c., and 
 several woodcuts. . Describes a meeting of Symington and Fulton. 
 The work gives a chronological sketch of English and foreign inven- 
 
 IJO 9 tions, and was the first work of the kind ever published. 
 
 Woodcroft (B.) Sketch of the Origin and Progress of 
 
 Steam Navigation. i4Opp. small quarto, cl. 2 2s 1848 
 
 359a Another copy, extracted from an Encyclopedia, small, 
 
 quarto, cloth'. 3o/ [circa, 1848]* 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
105 
 
 Steam Navigation continued. [History of Locomotion. 
 
 By Steam Alongside the Scottish Highlands. 
 
 1848 350 A good guide is a gift of the gods. The man who wants 
 to carry 250 pages about the SCOTTISH HIGHLAND 
 in his waistcoat pocket should take M'Phun of 1848. It 
 was written by Fyfe, a scholar, and its descriptions are 
 thorough, graphic, and unsurpassed, as far as the writer can 
 judge after residential experience. 
 
 M'Phun's Steamboat Pocket Guide [to] Western 
 Highlands and Islands. By Wm. Wallace Fyfe, F.R.S.S.A. 
 8th thou. 32 wr. 10/6 
 
 llefmua jtoxrks. 
 
 JStograpbical. 
 
 351 North's Life of Lord Keeper North, see under " Con- 
 struction " (page 15) 
 
 Arago on Jas. Watt. 
 
 1839 35 la THE first work below is a translation of Arago's Memoir 
 republished from the Edin. New Philos. [ml., and 
 includes Lord Jeffrey's Panegyric, and the second is 
 Muirhead's transn. the Historical Eloge, special value 
 attaching to this particular copy as having been presented 
 " from Mr. James Watt, of Aston Hall, near Birmingham, 
 the son of the subject of the Eloge, n Nov. 1840, N.S." 
 Life of James Watt. 142 pp. d8 2i/ 1839 
 
 Muirhead, J. P. Histor. Eloge of Jas. Watt. 
 With portrait. 261 pp. d8 cl. Presen. copy, 25/ 1839 
 
 Williamson on Watt. 
 
 1856 352 The biographical papers below include a good sketch of 
 the RISE OF STEAM NAVIGATION on the CLYDE. It throws 
 much light on the character of Watt, shows the portraits 
 after Henning and after Beechey, gives a view of the Comet 
 vessel, and contains interesting references to Smeaton, Arago, Boul- 
 ton, and also to Gregory Watt. 
 
 Williamson (Geo.) Memorials of James Watt. Fine 
 
 plates. 262pp. 4 2 2s Watt Club, 1856 
 
 Thomas Gray. His Own Copy. 
 
 1825 352a IN the copy below of Mr. GRAY'S 5th edition of.his"OB- 
 SE.RVATIONS " are some particulars of great biographical in- 
 terest. It tells us what no one seemed to know before that 
 ,,. .Thos. Gray was born at Leeds, May gth, 1788, and died I5th i 
 Oct., 1848, leaving a widow, three daughters, and a son. 
 The son, who tried to induce the Ry. Cos. to give him a 
 situation, writes a letter to Mr. HAYDON, presenting him on 
 request with this copy, and urging influence to get him a 
 
 situation. The holograph letter is bound in. From one of the news- 
 _ paper cuttings we see that shortly afterwards (abt. 1850) his son died of 
 
 consumption, some newspaper extracts referring to the claims of Gray, 
 Thos. Summerside (spelt Summerville) speaks up for Geo. Stephen- 
 son, Mrs. Gray thanks G. H. H. for a kind suggestion, and says 
 she has three daughters now living.- Mrs: Gray died (aged 81), Sept. 
 21, 1872, and the last home of the family seems to have been at 
 Exeter. Bound with the volume, which has additional interest from 
 being GRAY'S OWN COPY, bearing his autograph, is a neat little edn. 
 
io6 
 
 Biographical continued. [Reference Books. 
 
 (6;pp. 24 1846) of Wilson's The Railway System and its Author. 
 It has additional pages with Press Opinions and a Dedication to all 
 great hearted gentlemen. And affixed to the book is a rough por- 
 trait of Gray drawn from memory ten years after dectase. THIS, WE 
 
 BELIEVE, IS THE ONLY LIKENESS OF GRAY IN EXISTENCE, [and WC 
 
 piopose to ha\e a few copies taken of it]. 
 
 Gray (Thos. ) His Own Copy of His Observations, with 
 
 many Biographical Items, and a copy of Wilson's little 
 Memento. 8 hf. cf. ;io IDS 1825, &c. 
 
 Telford. 
 
 1838 352!) OF the genial Teltord, the Surveyor of the Great Scotch 
 Plate Railway of 1810, that friend of Kobt. Stephenson (with 
 whom he was intimate in life, and by whom he wished to He 
 in death), we have a substantial record below, written by 
 himself and edited by an executor, chiefly, of course, describ- 
 ing the great works for which he was famous, his beautiful 
 bridges, his substantial docks and harbours, the CALEDO- 
 NIAN CANAL, the MENAI SUSPENSION BRIDGE, and so on. 
 A large atlas illustrates the various works. 
 Autobiography of Thos. Telford, edited by Rickman. 
 2 vols 4 and folio. 2 2/ 1838 
 
 Henry Bell and Steam Boats. 
 
 Helensburgh, 1st March, 1824. 
 
 1844- 352c (p. 75) " When I wrote to the American Government on 
 the great importance of Steam Navigation .... they ap- 
 pointed Mr. Fulton to correspond with me (so) .... you 
 see the Americans got their first insight of this system from 
 your humble servant. (signed) HENRY BELL." 
 
 Such is a paragraph from the little biography below. 
 Morris (Ed.) The Life of Henry Bell (175 + 8 + VI. pp.) 
 with portrait and view showing ' COMET." p8 10/6 1844 
 
 Wilson or Mattalieu on Gray. 
 
 1845 3$2d The special copy below of Chev. Thos. Wilson's The Ry. 
 Syste?ii has written on the outside the words " With ALFRED 
 MATTALIEU'S (THE REAL WRITER) KINDEST REGARDS TO 
 HIS OLD FRIEND Dr. CAMMACK." This sounds as if it was 
 something more than the claim of a translator. 
 Wilson (Thos., Esq.) Chev. de I'ordre du lion Neer- 
 landais. The Railway System and its author Thos. Gray. 
 A letter to Sir Robt. Peel. 39pp. 8 sewn. 3O/ 1845 
 
 George Stephenson. 
 
 1857 353 In the picturesque life below we find the most charming 
 
 History of the early days of the railway system yet written. 
 Among references are those to Cugnot, Symington, Mur- 
 dock, Trevithick, Blenkinsopp, Blackett, Nicholas Wood, 
 Phillips, Wm. James, Pease, Giles, Palmer, Gray, John 
 Dixon, and many others. 
 
 Smiles (Sam.) Life of George Stephenson, with por- 
 trait. $i7pp. Liby. ed. 17/6 1857 
 Hedley. (See also 367). 
 
 1858 354 MR. HEDLEY (say) established the fact that locomotives 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
Biographical continued. [Reference Books, 
 
 could run well on rails without racks, and he made his loco- 
 motive (commonly called Blackett's) before Stephenson. It 
 is also claimed for him that he invented the STEAM BLAST, 
 
 that his chimneys were narrow, that his boilers had return tubes, 
 that he could get sufficient steam power when Stephenson could not, 
 and that practically he was the Inventor of the locomotive engine. 
 
 Hedley (O. D.) Who invented the Loco. Engine? 
 
 92}>p. d8 10/6 1858 
 
 Muirhead's Life of Watt. 
 
 1859 355 A KINSMAN of WATT'S and the Son-in-Law of BOULTON, 
 as well as the executor of WATT'S son, the author had 
 unrestrained access to the documents and anecdotes dealt 
 with in this volume. In regard to LOCOS, after speaking of 
 ROBISON, it is said (p. 424) that in August, '1768, Dr. 
 SMALL infoimed WATT of young EDGEWORTH'S energy over moving 
 land and water carriages, and seven months later urged WATT to come 
 to England because a draper named MOORE had secured a patent for 
 steam wheel carriages, WATT'S 1784 patent is described, and so also 
 MURDOCKS model of same year fillus.) 
 
 Muirhead, J. P. Life of Watt. With port. 572 pp. 
 d8 cloth. 10/6 Murray, 1859 
 
 Origin and Progress of the Mechanical 
 
 Inventions of Jas. Watt. 3 vols, 4 Large Paper Copy 
 3 i5/ ; Small Paper Copy 2 5/ 1854 
 
 ROBERT STEVENSON. 
 
 1861^3^6 IT is confusing to have two important early railway 
 engineers the only difference in whose names is the "v" and 
 'ph" in the surname. It is almost alarming, too, for the 
 sake of clearness to find STEVENSON who is connected in 
 these pages chiefly with the Bell Rock Lighthouse connected also with 
 a 'Stockton and Darlington Ry.' He surveyed the FORKARSHIKE 
 lines (vide p. 33 supra) ; suggested at a very early date a malleable 
 iron railway as used in 1851, an idea taken up by Birkenshaw and 
 mentioned in the quoted letter of GKO. STEPHENSON'S. In this letter, 
 dated 1821 GEORGE speaks of taking 40 to 60 tons 60 miles a'day with 
 his locos, and refers to STEVENSON'S searches into the utility of rail ways. 
 
 Stevenson, Alan. Biog. Sketch of Robert 
 Stevenson. 32 pp. 4 is/ 1861 
 
 WILLIAM JAMES, 
 Founder of the Railway System. 
 
 1861 357 THE CLAIMS of Mr. JAMES to be the Founder of the 
 Railway System rest on good grounds. He appears tohave been 
 a comparatively wealthy man, a Titan among land agents 
 and the confidential agent of many noblemen, his business 
 even bringing him into connection with King George III. and the 
 Prince of Wales. Desirous of improving the value of estates he became 
 impressed with the value of long tramroads to get minerals and produce 
 to market. JESSOP and TELFORD were great tramroad engineers of his 
 day but he himself seems to have been taken with a perfect mania for 
 tramway surveying and engineering. Probably as early as 1820 he was a 
 strong advocate for WROUGHT IRON EDGE RAILS. He advocated the use 
 of locomotives on the Stratford and Moretcn railway but was successfully 
 opposed by RASTRICK. Before 1820 having heard of George 
 Stephenson's engines he went up to Killingworth and subsequently 
 appears to have suggested to George to GO and SEE PEASE at Darlington 
 and induce him to make the STOCKTON and DARLINGTON LINE suitable 
 for RUNNING LOCOMOTIVES UPON (likely enough too for passenger 
 traffic). He followed his advice by an INTRODUCTION of some sort to 
 PEASE, whom he knew. Later he FORMED the FIRST COMPANY and 
 
io8 
 
 Biographical continued. [Reference ] 
 
 .surveyed the first line, BETWEEN MANCHESTER and LIVERPOOL hav_ _. 
 ROBT. STEPHENSON, Paul Padley, and others as his assistants, and 
 nearly lost his life surveying CHAT Moss. At the subsequent revival 
 of the idea for the Liverpool railway he possibly advised SAUNDERS to 
 send for Geo. Stephenson, who had by then gained experience on the 
 Stockton and Darlington' line. Mr. JAMES now being in embarassed 
 circumstances had to retire from the headship of the Liverpool 
 undertaking and the responsibility then fell on Stephenson. In 1820 
 he had a project on foot for a line from the STRATFORD-on-AvoN and 
 MORETON line to London (via the CHELTENHAM and GLOUCESTER) in 
 connection possibly with wrought iron edge rails. If so it may have 
 been (as claimed) the FIRST RAILWAY ever SURVEYED in the WOULD.' 
 If not we might exclude TELFORD'S CAST IRON TRAM ROAD from 
 GLASGOW to BERWICK and call it the first long train-May ever 
 proposed in England. Of much greater importance however is the fact 
 that it seems probable that but for the great influence of James, Geo. 
 Stephenson might never have made the STOCKTON and DARLINGTON 
 line, might never have heard from the Liverpool .people, nor from 
 HENRY BOOTH as to his vitally important MULTITUBULAR BOILER, 
 and neither made the Liverpool line, nor won the great locomotive 
 a contest. James, in fact, was at hand just when he was most needed. 
 
 He was a strong advocate and worker for railways and his influence was 
 powerful among rich and influential people. Altogether his claim to be 
 the FATHER OF THE PRESENT RAILWAY SYSTEM is very 
 strong and is indeed plainly admitted in the work below by ROBERT 
 STEPHENSON, BRUNEL, LOCKE. RENNIE, and others. The author has 
 grossly wronged James by unwise claims but is the chief advocate 
 for the man who discovered a means of starting the railway 
 system as now understood, or, in other words, whose influence 
 brought those different men together, to whose PERSEVERANCE and 
 GENIUS and PRACTICAL ABILITY it may be said THE WHOLE WORLQ 
 
 OWES THE RAILWAY SYSTEM. 
 
 The Two James's and the Two Stephenson's. 121 pp. 
 p8 is/ 1861 
 
 Joseph Locke. 
 1862 358 MR. LOCKE was the greatest pupil of George Stephen- 
 
 son ; but his biographer seems to have thought that the 
 pupil was a greater man than the master. The " Grand 
 Junction " affair was probably Mr. Devey's gauge. The 
 pages below describe the famous "Contest," Stephenson's 
 first loco, ' BLUCHER,' &c. Mentions the Booth and Senguin 
 tubes, Mr. Locke's dealings with contractors, his firmness of charac- 
 ter, &c., &c. 
 
 Devey (Jos.) Life of Jos. Locke, C.E., M.P., 
 F.R.S., c. With portrait. 366pp. d& 10/6 1862 
 
 Smiles' Lives. 
 
 1862 359 Vol. I. treats of the early works of Embanking and Drain- 
 
 ing ; Life of Myddelton ; Early Roads and Modes of Travel- 
 ling ; Bridges, Harbours, and Ferries ; Life of Jas. Brindley. 
 Vol. II., Life of Smeaton ; of John Rennie ; and of Thos. 
 Telford. Vol. III. Lives of Geo. and Robert Stephenson, 
 with an Appendix answering the claims of Hedley and Hackworth 
 to the Steam Blast invention. 
 
 Smiles (S.) Lives of the Engineers. 3 vols. roy 8 
 
 Library edition. 2. io/ 1862 
 
 Robert Stephenson. 
 
 1864 360 " MANY mistakes had been made in telling the story of 
 the elder Stephenson's life, and no life of the younger 
 Stephenson would be complete that should neglect to give 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
Biographical continued. [Reference Books, 
 
 a correct account [of] the life of the elder," says Mr. Jeaf- 
 freson. And from ihese pages we hear of a connecting link 
 between Trevithick and "old George" in the shape of John Steele (see also 
 Mining fournal, 2 Oct., 58, 16 Oct. 58 ; and Gateskead Observer, 
 Aug. 28, Sept. 18, Oct. 2, and Oct. 9, 1858); of the Blast Pipe ques- 
 tion ; of Rohert S. and the muiti tubular boiler, his work and a 
 snubbing on_ the Lond. and Birm., his views on the Atmospheric 
 System, of his magnificent bridges, &c., &c. 
 
 Jeaffreson (J. C.) and Wm. Pole. Life of Robt. Ste- 
 phenson. Fort, and plates. 2 vols, d8 22/6 1864 
 
 Henry Booth. 
 
 1869 361 IT would be a strong thing to say that Henry Booth 
 invented the modern locomotive, and yet while some think 
 the tube system has been overrated, there are, I believe, 
 many who would assert that BOOTH'S TUBES did more 
 towards the success of locomotives than any other inven- 
 tion, save perhaps that of the Blast Pipe, and no one knows who 
 did invent that. M. Senguin's idea of tubes had been published in 
 France before Mr. Booth's, but I think there can be no doubt that 
 it was unknown to the latter or to anyone in England. The pages 
 below show how great a share Mr. Booth had in the " ROCKET'S" 
 success. A "dead failure" in the Corn Trade, Mr. Booth came to 
 be known as a peculiarly gifted and able man in the railway world. 
 He did not "'wear his heart upon his sleeve," but Mr. Smiles has 
 written a charming private memoir, and by it we can gauge his worth 
 and see his many fine trait.s. 
 
 Smiles (Robt.) Mem. of Henry Booth. H7pp. d8 
 
 2i/ Privately printed. 1869 
 
 Trevithick. 
 
 1872 362 THIS work is got up in as attractive a style as Smiles' 
 
 " Lives," and of course abounds with interest as to the 
 earliest locomotives. It contains references to the invention 
 of the BLAST PIPE, which seems to bear out the opinion 
 expressed by JEAFFRESON in his Life of R. Stcphenson, 
 
 describes difference between Watt and Trevithick locos, says Budge 
 went from the latter to the former, that probably more than one 
 locomotive was made for the Welsh lines in 1802 (thereby opening 
 out a most interesting subject,) ; and states that repeated trials and 
 experiments with locos drained the pockets of Trevithick and his 
 cousin. But others (if not RKNNIE) have thought him a " boggier. ' 
 For his state reception in Peru see STUART [No. 277 szij>>a.} 
 
 Life of Rich. Trevithick. By Franc. Trtvithick. 
 
 With port, and illus. 2 vols. d8 cl. 17/6 1872 
 
 362a MEMORIAL Edition of the Life of R. Trevithick. Illus. 
 
 24 pp. d8 4/ Spon, 1883 
 
 George Stephenson (a Singular MS. 
 
 1873 363 FROM a gentleman in Derbyshire, now deceased, there 
 
 has come to my hands a MS. book from which was com- 
 piled the Life of GEO. STEPHENSON published by Bern- 
 rose, and compiled either by or for that curious old charac- 
 ter XROS. SUMMERSIDE. 
 
 THOMAS, who was ' OLD GEORGE'S ' foreman on week-days, and a 
 ' meenister ' on Sundays, seems to have made it a kind of hobby to 
 collect anecdotes of his old friend and master.^ _ 
 
 The first ten pages seem to be in his own writing, and the rest in 
 that of a lady ('possibly his daughter,). The former were not published 
 and contain a reference apparently to Mr. SMILES and also to SIR 
 JOSEPH PAXTON (\*ho seems himself to have contemplated a 'life' 
 
no 
 
 Biographical continued. ] Reference Books 
 
 of Stephenson.) 
 
 I give below \vhat I think the substance of the Preface found in the 
 MS., and also a strange paragraph written by the said lady but 
 omitted in the printed edition. 
 
 SUBSTANCE of the MS. PREFACE : 
 
 My anecdotes were not compiled from hear-say ' but from personal observati 
 and interviews. I have treasured them up gradually during fifty years, and I, *u 
 old man now, should not like to die without publishing them. Don't call me egotis- 
 tical. Like the best biographers, I saw, I heard, I iiot-d, 1 and there can lie no mif- 
 -SjC . takes. I would erii rather be blamed for egotism than report as haying been 
 done erroneous statements taken from the lips of those whose memories had failed, 
 or whos knowledge was imperfect about him. or plagiarize from the writings of 
 others what I did not know myself. . . I want to bring out a book of Anecdotes 
 at such a price that any youth may purchase, about the great mail whom I knew 
 when he was poor, with whose now famous son Robert I played in their humble 
 cottage, about the father of locomotive travelling by steam, whom, when he grew 
 rich, I served, whom, \vhen he died, I helped to carry t-> the grave. 
 
 [The incident given on p. 30 of the printed text as to STEPHENSON'S 
 and DODD'S mid-night adventure to discover the nature of an invention, 
 was followed in the MS. with the following statement : ] 
 
 THE OMITTED PARAGRAPH : 
 
 I also heard young George Dodds state that the invention which was the making of 
 Mr. Sftephenson] was brought from Tantoby by Charles Scorer, another brakesman. 
 \\ hile Scorer was pointing it out, Stephenson came and looked over their shoulders, 
 caught the idea, and at once utilised it. Those who knew him best will remember 
 that 111 the absence of reading or writing, of which he was notaii adept, it was his 
 constant practice to exhaust everyone who knw more than himself. 
 
 Summerside's Life of Stephenson. The MS. anc 
 
 the Printed Work published by Bemrose. The MS. dated 
 July, 1873. 2 vols. 4 4/ 
 
 Mr. Cowers on Geo. Stephenson. 
 
 1873 364 [MR. JOSEPH COWEN at the Centenary of GEORGE STEPHENSON said \* 
 
 Cornish Engineer TREVITHICK, our own Mr. HEDLEY whose labours and 
 whose discoveries I have often thought received very insufficient recognition were 
 busy with locomotives before STEPHENSON. But it remained for GEORGE 
 STEPHENSON to COLLECT THE RESULTS of PREVIOUS EXPERIMENTS and 
 GIVE to THEM UNITY, COHESION, and PRACTICABILITY. This is pre- 
 eminently a practical age and GEORGE STEPHENSON was pre-eminently a 
 practical man.] 
 
 Boulton and Watt. 
 
 1874 365 IN the small edition below are the Lives of BOULTON and 
 
 WATT, well illustrated and with very fine portraits of each. 
 Smiles Lives of Engineers. 416 pp. 8 d. zl l8 74 
 Sir John Rennie. 
 
 1875 366 THE genial RENNIE must have seen his name on many 
 .3toirf*ivs railwa y prospectuses before he made a railway, and I have 
 
 seen him classed even with Cund.y. However the 
 illustrious engineer has left an autobiography full of interest 
 to the railway man. He sympathises with Trevithick, was, as a lad, 
 impressed with Blenkinsopp's loco., says Ericsson's loco, at the 
 Contest was considered the best, laughs over Telford and his oppos. to 
 Rys., tells of his connection with the Liv. and Manch., the Lond, and 
 Birm., the Brighton, and the Great Northern lines, and thinks well of 
 the Atmospheric System. 
 
 Autobiography of Sir John Rennie. 464 pp. d8 With 
 portrait. 10/6 ^75 
 
 HEDLEY AGAIN. 
 
 1882 367 A FURTHER work dealing with MEDLEY'S claims appeared 
 in 1882. It seems to be generally considered that HEDLEY 
 should have more credit given him and I hope Mr. BELL 
 may even be right in saying that he (Hedley) "made the first 
 
 Published by EDWARD BAKER, John Bright Street, Birmingham. , 
 
Ill 
 
 Biographical continued [Reference Books. 
 
 locomotive which ever did any work worthy of the name." 
 Mr. BLACKETT generally gets the credit and that seems very unfair- 
 Mr. BURNETT (the maker of the first Midland loco.; gives the 
 credit to JONATHAN FOSTER for making 'PUFFING BILLY.' 
 
 [?] Archer, jM. Wm. Hedley, the Inventor of Ry. 
 
 Locom. on the Pres. Principle. 66 pp. 7/6 1882 
 
 JOSEPH FIRBANK. 
 
 1887 368 Iris interesting to be able to look at railways by the life 
 of a Contractor and Firbank makes a capital subject as 
 having been one of the most straight forward men who ever 
 lived, and connected with railway making from 1846 to 
 1886. 
 
 McDermott's Life of Jos. Firbank, J.P., D.L. Illus. 
 144 pp. d8 si l88 7 
 
 JOHN ERICSSON. 
 
 1890 368a THE name of ERICSSON at once calls to mind the 
 LIVERPOOL CONTEST of 1829. And a quotation given i 
 the pages below will serve to remind one of the old 
 enthusiasm for the Swedish engineer, 
 
 " On the first day the ROCKET derived little benefit from the discharge 
 of the exhaust steam up the chimney and made steam nearly as freely 
 when standing as when running. . . . Its mean speed was under 
 14 and maximum 24 ; or without a load 29. Ericsson's engine the 
 NOVELTY shot past the ROCKET like a projectile. . . ." 
 
 Church, W. O. Life of John Ericsson, with portrait 
 and numerous illustrations. 2 vols, d8 half calf. 24/ 1890 
 
 NICHOLAS WOOD. 
 
 368aa [In reply to an observation in a former publication Mr. 
 Burnett has very kindly forwarded a biography of NICHOLAS 
 WOOD, written by Mr. Richard Weiford, the much esteemed 
 local historian of Newcastle-on-Tyne, which appeared in the 
 Newcastle Weekly Chronicle 10 Dec. 1892. Mr. Wood it 
 seems became the chief authority on colliery practice in the 
 Gt. Northern Coal Field, and after growing in wealth and 
 honour died in London 19 Dec. 1865, and was buried at 
 Hetton,] 
 
 [The Prices will be given upon application.) 
 
 MR. JOHN DIXON 
 
 1829 368b The able lieutenant of GEO. STEPHENSON ; one of the 
 engineers of the 1st Passngr. Ry., and of the victors of 
 CHAT Moss. 
 
 1796. Born. <Steph.). North Uii, 
 
 1821. Surveys the "S. A B. and Derby. 
 
 Darl. 1837-42. Bug. Ches. 
 1823-5. Eutf. 8. andD. and Birk. 
 
 1826- Enif. Cant, and 1842-45. Geu. Manag. 
 
 Whitsttible Ry. Biriu. and Derby 
 
 1827-36. En*. Liv. and 1845-65. Cons. Eng 
 
 31;inch. (5 years sole Stock and Dnrl 
 
 eiu,'.) 1852. (C) Eng Cocker- 
 1836-7- Assists with S. mouth line 
 
 Western. Brighton .JJJSjC 1865- Wed 
 
 [ Vide RY. TIMES, Mar. 26, '42, JEANS Jub. Memorial, 
 1875, and Corres. herein.] 
 
112 
 
 Biographical continued. Reference Books. 
 
 Re Locos, or Fixed Engines. 
 
 1829 368bb Copy of Draft of Geo. Stephenson's Report'on Loco. "or 
 FIXED ENGINES addressed to Direc. Liv. & M. Ry., dated 5 
 Jan., 1829. Mentions visit to Darlington 12 and 13 Dec., 
 1828, rough state of ry, temporary sleepers still remaining, 
 stone blocks very small, embankments of very bad material, lines kept 
 in bad repair for locos, speed 2^ to 10 miles an hour, Locke and Robt. 
 Stepbenson expts. showing av. speed of 5! m. If all engines had been 
 working on Reciprocating Plan both speed and effect would have 
 been less. 
 
 SPEEDWELL line unfavble for locos. Loco, could take 370 tons 56 miles 
 in 15 hrs. Working cost J^d. per ton per mile. 
 
 HETTON Ry. Working cost o.34d. per ton per mHe. 
 
 With details as to STATIONARY POWKK ending with estimate of cost of 
 fixed engines at .150,000, and of Locos. ^76,000, or at a total for 
 Fixed Engines of 8d. per ton per mile, for locos. 4^per ton per mile. 
 
 MS., ispp. folio. I believe, in John Dixon's Hand- 
 writing. 
 
 Re Grand Junction. 
 
 1835 3680 DRAFT of a long letter, from ED. DIXON addressed to 
 JOHN Moss, Esq., Chairman Grand Junct. Ry., dated 
 Liverpool, Sept. 22, 1835, in answer to Mr. Moss' invita- 
 tion to discuss with him the best mode of working the 
 GRAND JUNCTION RY. (Our first big Passenger line.) 
 
 The writer after mentioning his long experience of rys. proceeds to 
 discuss four plans, (i) Leasing line to an individual. (2) Opening 
 u : 131OV? ', !* ne to public on Toll. (3) Leasing line to a carrying Co. (4) Co. 
 itself working line. 
 
 In i an experienced Coach Master might make a good thing of it 
 for himself and connect it with coach routes, and be able to "book 
 through." Supposition taken of PICKFORDS becoming Lessees. Effect 
 of transfer of their custom illus. by Hargreaves trans, theirs from 
 Leeds and Liv. Canal to Bolton and Leigh Ry. causing great 
 loss (by reduction of rates) to both Cos. It is a bad plan to force 
 business out of its legit, channel. Personal supervision of a single 
 principal instead of paid servants of a Co. overrated. 
 
 (2) Even when Liv. and Man. monopoly was talked so much about 
 I never heard anybody suggest the wisdom of this plan for a railway. 
 It would never do. 
 
 (3) The only reason I can see for this plan is to save trouble to 
 the Directors. 
 
 (4) Will entail great anxiety and responsibility, as the L. & M. 
 itself shows. Objections discussed. Extravagance of a Co., but a 
 Co. should not be for mere personal profit but for public good as well. 
 Expenses ot L. & M. analysed [mentions enginemen's wages 1/3 per 
 trip, and firemen is/- per week.] We should keep road in our own 
 hands, in two years we shall haVe much more experience. Canals now 
 charge less than rys, but public prefer to pay 20% extra for speed. 
 Lehgth of Grand Junct. will bring much business, but we should share 
 traffic with canals, at as high a rate as Acts permit. There should be 
 no connection with coach proprietors ; great punctuality should be 
 observed. Maintenance of road very small when there are no broken 
 rails and split blocks to be provided. (I think Locos will become a 
 distinct branch of business. Any person bold enough to lay out 
 ,70.000 for engines for Grand June, could demand far more than a 
 reasonable trade profit). We ought now to order best engines from 
 different makers. We should have a contractor to look after engines 
 and men for a year. Coaches and waggons should be built partly by 
 the Co. and partly put out. 
 
 Edward Dixon's Draft !2Xpp. folio- 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
Biographical continued. [Reference Books. 
 
 George Stephenson to John Dixon. 
 
 1835 Of all the gifts of Almighty God, the gift of the gab is the greatest, said Geo. 
 Stephenson. He seldom if ever \n-ote a letter, but would no doubt h;ive delivered 
 his pinion ou letter writing in the same forcible style Dictation however became 
 second nature to him, and his known characteristics can be easily traced in the 
 letters which have written down his quaint messages, some of which will be 
 found below 
 
 1835 3686 IN this, after referring to the demand for his services, the 
 
 illustrious George says he knows that Mr. DIXON'S salary 
 is not equal to that of many men of less experience. You* 
 present SALARY is ^"600, you might perhaps get /i.ooo or 
 even more. I think it certain now that a line will be made from Ln. 
 & Birm. to Newcastle-on-Tyne We have a most excellent " line " 
 from DERBY to LEEDS and the ground you know is favourable to 
 YORK. It is clear now that the GRAND TRUNK THROUGH ENGLAND 
 must be on this route. We shall take in Huddersfield, Halifax, and 
 Bradford by cheap branches. Am just stalling to go over the 
 BRIGHTON and BLACKWALL lines. VIGNOLES is laying a line from 
 RUGBY to DERBY. This will be another Southampton job for the 
 Manchester people. What sagacity they have in their speculations. 
 Old PEASE^ has taken 200 shares in the Brighton and 100 in the Lond. 
 and Birm. line. 
 
 Dictated Letters from Geo. Stephenson, reed. 7 Oct. 
 1835, from Alton Grange, 4pp. 4 to J. D. at Man- 
 chester, and signed. 
 
 Pambour to John Oixon. 
 
 1836 3686 THIS is a letter from the first great authority on Locomo- 
 
 tive Engines, explaining to the Superintendent of the 
 first Locomotive Passenger Railway an error in his (P's) 
 calculation, in further reply to a request for an opinion as 
 to the dimensions of an engine to answer Mr. Brunei's 
 specification. 
 
 Holograph Letter signed G. de Pambour addressed 
 to John Dixon at the Ry. Office, Manchester, and 
 dated London Sept. 20, 1836 (2^ pp. 4) 
 
 Re Chester and Birkenhead Ry. 
 
 1837 368f MR. MURRAY GLADSTONE thanks J. D. for his interest 
 
 in Chester and Birk.line, mentions its supporters, opponents, 
 and final success through the " Lords." Thinks the line 
 should now be made at once before the trade can be 
 diverted by the Grand Junction. 
 
 Holog. Letter from Murray Gladstone add. Ry. 
 Office, Waterloo St., Birm., dated June 30, 1837. 
 3PP- 4 
 
 Geo. Stephenson to John Dixon, dated 
 Tapton House, Jan. IS, '46. 
 
 1846 368g ". . . . if they cannot sell the engines to other 
 people they must trust you till you can pay. 
 
 I wish I had an opportunity of seeing you a little oftener, 
 you are always getting alarmed about little things ; keep 
 up your spirits, you will be all right in the course of the 
 summer. You have no occasion to fret about a situation as long as I 
 am in the land of the living. I have just tendered for another large 
 coal field, and intend, to open some extensive Lead mines. ... I 
 
H4 
 
 Biographical continued. [Reference Bo 
 
 think we shall now take up the connecting link from the Darlington 
 Railway to the Durham and Sunderland June. This will complete 
 the thoroughfare from London to Newcastle. . . . Mrs. Stephen- 
 son and Miss Brown join me in kind regards to Mrs. and Miss Jane 
 Dixon. 4pp. and one crossed. 4 
 
 Geo. Stephenson to John Dixon. 
 
 Re Cockermouth. 
 
 1846 368h WHEN I received yours of the I7th I thought the sea had 
 been breaking in on you. It is said to have done more 
 damage to Brunei than the whole cost of your line. It has 
 not done much at Holyhead. If it is fair for the contractor 
 to have the extras I should fear no man in stating it ... 
 let me go through them with you. I am surprised at your Cocker- 
 mouth line. ... I think Lord Lonsdale is hard to deal with. I 
 have given up the Whitehaven and Furness Railway into Robert's 
 hands. I want now almost to retire from business, and I think that 
 although you ai-e not near my age you ought to be doing the same. 
 Then follows a reference to " Jane " [Miss Dixon] now stopping with 
 him and to Robert (J. D.'s brother) having just arrived in England. 
 
 Dictated and signed Letter from Geo. Stephenson. 
 4pp. 4 dated Tapton House, Nov. 20, 1846 (on black 
 edged paper). 
 
 Robt. Stephenson (to J. D.) on Bridges. 
 
 1840 3681 THIS to "Dear Dixon" refers to the Hownes Gill Bridge. 
 " No one can accurately calculate the time requisite to form 
 an Embankment, or say that the latter is cheaper than a 
 bridge at a height of 170 feet even for Hownes Gill. Cost 
 is about equal at 70 or So feet. I should dispense with 
 fishing by introducing inverted arches into a foundation wall laid 
 entirely across the gill, carrying a solid rubble wall a considerable 
 depth below the inverts into the ground. Thus to distribute weight of 
 superstructure over the entire area of the bottom .... cheaper and 
 safer with a treacherous material as foundation. Fire and height 
 objection to wood. 
 
 Holograph Letter from Robt. Stephenson, 4pp., 4 
 dated 9 Aug. 1849. 
 
 Robert Stephenson to John Dixon. 
 
 I85O 368] REGRETTING he cannot get to Darlington on 22nd because 
 "we are going to move one of our tubes at the Menai 
 . Straits." 
 
 Letter from Robt. Stephenson. 2pp. 4 dated 12 
 May 1850. 
 
 Robt. Stephenson to John Dixon. 
 
 1852 368k I shall be glad to assist you, *. . . . . come to 
 London. I think I made a report to the S. & D. on this 
 bridge before rec something more durable than timber. I 
 do not like the creosoted timber as used by Brunei. A 
 Newport bridge was destroyed by fire. 
 Letter from Robt. Stephenson dated 5 May 1852 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
. . 
 
 Jiographical continued. [Reference Books. 
 
 Whitehaven Junction Ry. 
 
 852 368! LETTER from GEO. DIXON to JOHN DIXON. " My 
 dear Sir 1 ' .... it was only old PieV s wall that the 
 sea has broken in through. The letter speaks also of the 
 Furness line proposed extension through the streets : it is 
 called a tramway to blind the people, and has a reference to 
 an Aunt Margaret. 
 
 Holo. Letter from Geo. to John Dixon. 6pp. p8 
 dated Whitehaven Feb. 6 1852. 
 
 Joseph Locke to John Dixon. Re Bell. 
 
 852 368m " My dear Sir," If W. Bell will send his address to the 
 office on Aberystwith line work shall be found for him 
 "on your acct." Glad to see your handwriting, and to 
 hear you "jog on happily " even tho' in a small way, and 
 am very glad too that you have provided for that rainy day 
 when the "poor Richards" of this world cannot work. 
 I have everything to be thankful for, and Errington and I go n 
 together as of old, never dreaming we are getting older every day. 
 I do not know who is your happy partner, but if you will present 
 the respects of one of your friends and fellow-workers to her it will 
 be one step towards a better acquaintance." 
 
 Holog. Letter Jos. Locke to J. Dixon t dated n Adam 
 Street 21 Aug. 1852. 3pp. p8 
 
 Bidder to Dixon. 
 
 861 368n LETTER from W. J. Kingsbury for Mr. Bidder answering 
 
 enquiry re Fricton and pointing out an error underlying 
 certain experiments. 
 
 MS. Letter Bidder (Kingsbury) to Dixon. 2pp. 
 p8 29 Aug. '61. 
 
 Re Stockton and Darlington. 
 
 862 368p Mr. FALLOWES of Middlesboro' having asked as to date 
 
 of laying the First Rail of the " Stockton and Darl." near 
 St. John's Well, Stockton, Mr. Dixon says he was present, 
 and it could not have been earlier than Autumn of 1821 
 (letter endorsed Act . . . amended line May 23, 1823). Mr. 
 F. replying says he finds it was 23 May, 1822 ; that he 
 also was present ; that curiously he can find no account of 
 it in the local papers. 
 
 Draft of Letter John Dixon. Darin. Sept. I 1862. 
 Reply from Mr. Fallowes dated 8 Sept. '62. Each 
 2pp. p8 
 
 Samuel Smiles to John Dixon. 
 
 1864 3684 LETTER from West Bank, Blackheath, seeking informa- 
 tion about the Newcomens of Redcar, and remarking that 
 Mr. Dixon must now be THE PATRIARCH OF THE RAIL- 
 WAY WORLD. 
 
 Holo. Letter from Samuel Smiles, 2pp. dated Nov. 
 5th, 1864. 
 
 SPECIAL NOTE. AN OFFER. 
 
 Thinking the above, Correspondence of very great interest it 
 
n6 
 
 Financial. [Reference Books 
 
 will afford us great pleasure to have COPIES taken of all o; 
 any of the separate MS. letters and papers. It might alsf 
 be useful to the libraries. Unless this offer is accepted Al 
 ONCE however we have reason to expect that future access /< 
 the papers will be impossible. Many collectors of early 
 railway literature are extremely busy men. [A small charge 
 will be made for the copying.] 
 
 ^IcH 
 
 ^financial* 
 
 The First Shareholders' Guides, 1485-1848. 
 
 1845 369 MR. TUCK started his SHAREHOLDERS' MANUAL in th 
 great mania year 1845, and it went through no less than five 
 different editions, of which the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 6th will be 
 found below. It urged investment in railways, and quotec 
 Lord Bacon's assertion that ''''Money was like muck, and die 
 no good till it was spread.'* The first edition gave an abstracl 
 
 n c of Acts; the length, course, gauge, date of openings, cost, time ovei 
 
 main journey, fares, capital, earnings, cost of working, and price o 
 shares for six years of each railway, synopsis of foreign lines, list o 
 projected lines, etc. [io2pp]. The 3rd edn. was i2ipp., the 5th, i54pp 
 [including Bills in Parl.] and the 6th, 245pp., including the gross earn 
 ings of the lines and all new projects. In the jth edn., 1846, the famou; 
 Tuck Spackman correspondence appeared relating to the compilation o 
 the disastrous article in The Times, and on p. 39 the Grand Junctior 
 is now called GREAT LONDON and LIVERPOOL RAILWAY, late^ Gram 
 Junction Ry. The edition had 300 pages, and included foreign anc 
 colonial projects. The eighth edition did not appear till 1847, but .ha<; 
 then 409 pages. It was still angry at The Times. The names of th* 
 Chairman. Secretary, and Engineers of each line were now added. Ir 
 the ninth edn., 1848, there were 488 pages, and particulars of existing 
 
 .CCJ railways in greater detail. 
 
 Tuck. Shareholders' Manual. First Edn., 1845 
 Third Edn., 1845 ; Fifth Edn., 184.5; Sixth Edn -> l8 45 
 Seventh Edn., 1846; Eighth Edn., 1847;. Ninth EtJo,, 
 1848. 7 vols. P 8 35/ 
 
 Bradshaw. Shareholders' Guides, 1848 to 186 
 
 1848 370 WHEN Tuck had reached maturity, Bradshaw's Railwa) 
 TO Almanack, Directory, Shareholders' Guide and Manila! 
 
 1861 came into the field very humble-looking. But it had a good 
 map, 4^ pages on the " Electric Telegraph," a " Travel- 
 lers' Directory," showing best conveyances by road, rail. 
 JL '&c., from London to chief towns, with distances and fares, &c., and hac 
 1^7 pages. It was, however, well received, and by skilful analyses o 
 the various companies financial positions, and by epnomjsingagreements 
 the Bradshaw reputation grew and rooted. 
 
 Bradshaw's Shareholders' Guide for 1848. 1854, l8 55 
 1856, and 1 86 1. 5 vols. 25; 
 
 The Great Financial Reference Book. 
 
 1849 .371 JUST before the Hudson crisis Mr. Scrivenor's work ap 
 
 peared. In his introduction he spoke of Liverpool's posi 
 tion in the railway world, of the starting of the L. and M 
 line, the contest, etc. and referred to the Garnkirk Co k 's Iocs 
 
 Publisher by EmvAi:ri HAKKR. John Bright Htreet, Birmingham, 
 
 \ 
 
nancial continued. Reference Books, 
 
 (which cost ^"750) built by Stephenson, and the 2nd in Scot- 
 land having been sold for 13. He offered a book of reference 
 backed by the knowledge gained as Secy, of the Liv. Stock 
 Exch., he described the essentials of Co.'s accounts and how he had 
 treated them on one uniform system. He spoke of the past, present, 
 and future prospects of the railway interest, and then gave full financial 
 particulars of each railway in his ever-esteemed reference book of over 
 800. pages. 
 
 Scrivenor (Harry) The Railways of the United King- 
 dom. Statistically considered. d8 IO/6" 1849 
 
 Finance of the Cos.," 1856 to 1873. 
 
 556 372 THE Financial Career of the Various Companies can also 
 TO be well traced from " RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE," compiled 
 >73 by M. Slaughter, tender the sanction of the Committee o/the 
 
 Stock Exchange. 
 
 Railway Intelligence. Nos. IX., 1856 ; X., 1859 ; XL, 
 
 1861 ; XII., 1863 ; XIII., 1865 ; XIV., 1867 ; XV., 1869 ; 
 
 XVI.. 1871 ; XVII., 1873 ; 9 vols. 8 cloth. 42 / 
 
 OLegal an& parliamentary 
 
 ACTS for 1830 to 1874. 
 
 $30 373 FROM Mr. BIGG'S well-known and neat little work we can 
 TO get an easy reference to all the Acts, and see their titles at 
 
 a glance. 
 
 Biggs (Jas.) General Railway Acts. 689pp. p8 d. 
 
 AS NEW. (l8/) 5/ 1875 
 
 Railway Law at the 2nd Mania. 
 
 374 THIS edition of Wordsworth, -published at the time of the 
 second railway mania, made references to the then numerous 
 schemes, to a proposed ip/ profit limit, to railways not 
 coming under the Bubble Act, and to some liabilities of 
 original shareholders in abandoned projects. 
 Wordsworth (C. F. F. ) Law of Joint Stock Cos. p8 
 
 pi to me of First Acts in England and Scotland. 
 
 38 375 IN the following little works we get a neat Epitome of the 
 ro Laws for Railways in England, 1838 to 1845, and a com- 
 4-5 panion volume of those of Scotland of like date. 
 
 Public General Acts for (a) England, (b) Scotland. 2 
 
 vols. p8 7/6 
 
 Gladstone's Act. 
 
 376 BELOW is a reprint of Mr. Gladstone's Act (7 and 8 Viet., 
 INTED cap. 85) for , Parliamentary Trains, &c., referred to p. 5 
 74 supra. 
 
 Reprint of Gladstone's Act of 1844. 1/6 Rep., 1874 
 
n8 
 Legal and Parliamentary continued. [Reference Book 
 
 8 Viet., 16 ; 93 pages on 8 Viet., iS ; and an appendix, an 
 explained the conditions to be complied with and steps to b 
 taken to start a railway. While Riddel the next yearlucidl; 
 explained the way in which Parliament deals with Railway Bills. 
 
 Collier (R. P.) Railway Clauses. Companies' Clauses 
 and Land Clauses Consolidation Acts, &c. p8 7/6 184 
 Riddel (Henry) Railway Parliamentary Practice. 08 
 7/6 184. 
 
 Legal Decisions up to 1853. 
 
 1853 378 AT Easter Term, 1853, Mr. Shelford wrote 826 pages o: 
 Railway Law, with copious notes on Decided Cases, and par 
 ticularlyon the three Consolidation Acts, 1845. 
 Shelford (L. ) Law of Railways. d8 5/ 185: 
 
 Commons' Reports. 
 
 379 A large number of House of Commons' Reports (includin 
 many on Accidents, 1853 to 1877), are in hand, particular; 
 of which will be given in some further publication. 
 Commons' Select Committee Reports. Prices on ap- 
 plication. 
 
 Xiats, analyses, of IRgs. 
 
 PRIESTLEY. 
 
 1831 380 THE wonderful " Manchester and Liverpool" Railway 
 was in going order when JOSEPH PRIESTLEY (dating from 
 the " Aire and Calder Navigation Office") issued his " HIS- 
 TORICAL ACCOUNT." He has heard of " TREVENTHICK" 
 (as he calls him), tells us that BLENKINSOPP was Mr. 
 BRANDLING'S local manager, puts GURNEY'S name befor 
 STEPHENSON'S or "ERRICKSON'S" (sic) and thinks ere long his Majesty 
 mails will be conveyed on the plan of Mr. DICK(!) Particulars are ! 
 given of the few modern railways and the many plate lines, dates of 
 . Acts, course of line, particulars of company, &c. An indispensable 
 reference book for all railways at this date. 
 
 Priestley (Jos.) Hist. Acct. of the Navigable Rivers, 
 Canals, and Railways of Gt. Britain [as a reference to 
 Nichols' . . . Map]. 7O2pp. d8 2i/ 183^ 
 
 Whishaw's Analysis. 
 
 1837 381 These pages describe the courses of PROJECTED RAILWAYS. 
 
 It includes the different proposed lines to Brighton, the two 
 celebrated lines from MANCHESTER (entering into historical 
 and critical details of the latter), mentions the Engineers 
 connected with them, gives a good GLOSSARY of terms. A 
 rare and unique little work. 
 
 Whishaw (F.) Analysis of Railways. 296pp. d8 cl. 
 2 5 / 1837 
 
 Prospects of Companies. 
 
 1838 382 A glance even at the date of this little reference book will 
 
 show its importance. It was written by a Manchester? 
 
 Published by EDWARD BAKER, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
ists, Analyses continued. Reference Books. 
 
 Geologist, and is an attempt to show the PROBABLE SUCCESS 
 or FAILURE of the Midland, Lancashire, Yorkshire [and 
 Scotch] Rys. of the period. A Railway is called expensive 
 at ^"20,000 and cheap at 15,000 per mile, and the author 
 thinks local traffic more important than direct lines, that cheap fares 
 are better than maximum speed, that railways will suit heavy goods (for 
 the " Leic. and Swan." pays 8% to xo/ c ). Then comes a short sketch 
 of rys. in prospect, followed by 64 pages of description under the head- 
 ings of 14 lines or systems, with four col. maps. 
 
 A Few General Observations on the Principal Rys. 
 
 exec., in progress, and projected. d8 2i/ 1838 
 
 Whishaw * 
 
 {40-42 383 THIS is the most useful reference hook of its date, the 
 main part of it giving, under the heading of the companies, 
 the Course and Shape of Line, Acts, Capital, Buildings, Es- 
 tablishment, Revenue, Descriptions of Rolling Stock, Wag- 
 gons, Carriages, and LOCOMOTIVES. Pages follow on loco. 
 expts. on difft. GRADIENTS, and then an acct. of Whishaw's RECIPRO- 
 CATING SYSTEM of Rys., TABULATED DETAILS concerning the LOCO- 
 MOTIVES of the Companies, Standing Orders of Parl., PLATES showing 
 locos, of the day (inch the American LICKKY INCLINE ENGINE), and 
 railway carriages, waggons, &c., together with a MAP of the U.K. 
 showing the railways opened or progressing. 
 
 Whishaw (Francis) The Railways of Gt. Britain and 
 Ireland. Abt. 500 pages. 4 2 2s 1840 or 1842 
 
 List of Lines. 
 
 I 384 MANY PARTICULARS CONCERNING EARLY RAILWAY 
 LINES, not obtainable elsewhere in a handy form, may be 
 found ir Knight's British Almanac for 1841, which devotes 
 no less than FIFTY-FIVE pages to the subject, and gives 
 
 THE BEST LIST I HAVE EVER SEEN of the EARLY PLATE and 
 
 PASSENGER LINES (135 mentioned), for we get not only the 
 dates of Acts, and of Openings, the capital, and the length, but also a 
 statement as to the POWER USED ON EACH LINE (Locomotives, fixed 
 Engines, &c.), and the object of the railways (whether for passengers or 
 goods), the gauge, &c. . The earlier issues also give references to rail- 
 ways. 
 
 [Knight's] Almanac and Companion. Vols. from 1831 
 
 to 1841, both inclusive (but excepting 1834 and 1836). 9 
 vols. p8 cl. l8/ 
 
 Railways in Scotland. 
 
 385 IN Oliver and Boyd's Almanac for 1841 there is a list of 
 Scotch Railways, devoting about a dozen lines to each of the 
 17 Railways. It is the only list of its kind (except in "Whi- 
 shaw"). 
 Oliver and Boyd's Almanac. 12 10/6 1841 
 
 Dictionary of Dates. 
 
 847 386 IT will be found that a set of these Dictionaries (omitting 
 certain years) will be very useful for tracing the dates of 
 openings. Of course, as the companies altered their names 
 
 *jUnfortunately this name has occured elsewhere in these pages as " WISHAW." 
 
120 
 Lists, Analyses continued. Reference Book 
 
 or amalgamated, and later editions abridged the early infor 
 mation, the modern issues alone will be useless. ' The firs 
 edition of HAYDN was published about 1843. 
 Haydyn or Townsend Diet, of Dates. 4 various issue! 
 between 1843 and 1877. 2O/ 1847, &c 
 
 1861 387 Railway (The) and the Mine (Lever's Year Book), 79 pp 
 on Railways, including a list of 139 passenger railways AR 
 
 avH !" RANGED ACCORDING TO DATE OF 6'PENING, list of the rail 
 
 way officials of 1861, notes on the railway press, and loopp 
 on Coal" Mines. 8 cl. $/ 186: 
 
 IDarious TReferences an& IRecor&s 
 some 
 
 Gray's Contributions. 
 
 1824 388 DOUBTLESS in 1824 a good article in the Gentleman!^ 
 Magazine, advocating railways, would be very influential iii 
 urging forward the claims of the railway system at that earlj 
 date. Two such articles appear in the interesting pages 
 below. 
 
 t .The Gentleman's Magazine for 1824. 2 vols. d8 hf, 
 
 388a IN the Westminster Review GRAY'S claims were stoutly defendec 
 (and in the same article was predicted the extinction of horses as t 
 moving power in Eng. within five years). 
 
 Westminster Review. No. LXXXVI. Orig. wr. VERTJ 
 
 RARE. 2 I/ 1845 
 
 Sir Richard Phillips and Hancock. 
 1832 389 Sir Richard, who himself advocated railways at an uncom- 
 monly early date, makes Hancock's Steam Carriage the 
 frontispiece to this edition of his Million of Facts and calls 
 it " THE TRIUMPH OF MECHANICS in 1832." 
 Phillips (Sir Rich.) A Million of Facts. 7/6 [1832] 
 
 The Literary World. 
 
 1839 390 THIS little illustrated Journal used to make constant refer- 
 ences to RAILWAYS, and they included in 1839 an interesting 
 reference to WROUGHT- IRON WHEELS (p. 372), an early 
 TRAVELLING POST OFFICE on the " London and Birm." 
 line, a long description of that line, &c., c. 
 Literary World. A Journal edited by John Timbs* 
 2 vols in i. 382pp. d8 cl. I5/ 183^ 
 
 Salt. 
 
 1850 391 IN this edition references are made to Tommy Shops, 
 \\ Glyn on Competition, Oldest Scotch Ry. (to Newhaven), 
 
 " Ed. and Glas." foregoing dividend, Ry. Commissioners, 
 Cheap Fares, G.W.R. invading North, Proposed Grand 
 Junct. Broad Gauge, L. and Y. Rolling Stock, The Gauges*- 
 The Hudson Crisis, c.,c. , 
 
 Salt. Ry. and Com. Information [statistical facts], 
 240pp. P 8 7/6 1850 
 
 Published Ijy EDWARD BAKKK, John Bright Street, Birmingham, 
 
jferences, &c. continued. [Reference Books, 
 
 Old Durham Railway. 
 
 & 392 THERE are nine pages of great interest referring to the 
 Durham Ry. in Longstaffe's History of Darlington, inc. 
 refenc. to JOHN DIXONS' early proposed Darl. railways, 
 Longridge partner in " Stephenson & Co.," Clarence Ry. 
 trains once "stopping anywhere" (now pt. route Leeds to 
 Ferryhill), curiosities of horse rys. , etc. 
 Longstaffe's History of Darlington. Fine copy in 
 calf extra. (From the Dixon library.) d8 35/ 18-54 
 
 Signals. 
 
 393 Particulars of the Patents for Signals from 1840 to 1866 
 will be found below. 
 
 Abridgements of Specifications of Ry, Signals and 
 
 Communicating Apparatus. 48opp. p8 (cover loose). 7/6 
 
 Patents Office, 1869 
 MEDALS 
 
 394 AMONG the Series below the first by date is one of the 
 " LIVERPOOL and MANCH. line." George Stephenson on 
 the obverse and the Bridge at Newton (Junction for Birm.) 
 on the reverse, with 15 Sept., 1830, mentioned as day of 
 opening. (The loco, shown is more like ** PUFFING 
 BILLY " than a loco, of date.) Another Medal to " com- 
 memorate the opening " shows the SANKEY VIADUCT on one side and 
 the ENTRANCE TO THE LIVERPOOL STATION AND TUNNELS (a cuiious 
 
 DECREE for the construction of the State Railways of Belgium, and the 
 medai struck shows the King on the obverse and an allegorical design on 
 reverse (i Mai, 1834) ; then comes the inauguration, il du chemin de fer " 
 Rdgence d' Anvers, with an alleg. winged-wheel car bearing the cornuco- 
 pia (3rd May. 1836] ; then with King Leopold on obverse another medal 
 shows a locomotive approaching the City of Ghent (Gand) 28 Sept., 
 1837 ; two years later comes a medal to commemorate the < Embranch- 
 ments du Canal de CHARLEROY ; then a beautiful silver medal commem- 
 
 centralef!] a Lichterveide (6 Apr.. 1847), on the WEST FLANDERS RY., 
 and showing on a six-wheeled loco, the tube reaching over from tender to 
 the top of the fire-box ; also a little token struck by Hanks and 
 Lloyd, of Sydney, to blend the memory of their tea \vith the opening of 
 the SYDNEY RAILWAY, 26 Sept., 1855. 
 
 In 1834 a medal was struck to honour the memory of Pierre Simons, who 
 died "abprddu navirede 1'etat LOUISE MARIE (on way to S. Amer.), 
 ingenieur illustre il traca les premiers plans du C. de fer Beige dec. par la 
 loi du i Mai, 1834. 
 
 An interesting little mememtoof the OLD SHEFFIELD and ROTHERHAM 
 line, giving date of open. asOct. 31, 1838, comes in the shape of a little 
 omnibus check, l ' No. 3,'' 643. 
 
 In 1843, 15 Oct., we have the " inaug. duch. de fer mternationale Belge- 
 Rhenan " loco, on obverse, and arms (double-head eagle and lion ram- 
 pant) on reverse ; of the same year is a fine large medal with King Leo- 
 pold on obv. and alleg. design on reverse, and motto with words. "Inaug. 
 du c. de fer de VF.RVIKRS a Aix-la-CHAPELi.E, &c." 
 
 The Collection of Twelve Medals, dating from 1830 tQ 
 
 1855 (one silver). 6 655 
 
Magazines. 
 
 [Reference 1 
 
 The Magazines below miglit be looked upon as forming the detailed t 
 record of railway work. In some we can watch the development and construction 
 >f railways, and of rollma; stock, and the gradual improvement in locomotive 
 mechanism ; while from others we can trace the careers of the old companies, and 
 see the important parts taken in those careers by the emphatic personalities who 
 made them what they were. It is as well to add that some good railway 
 periodicals have lately grown unprocurable and that most of them are very scarce. 
 
 REPERTORY OF ARTS. 
 
 1794 395 " UNTIL the commencement of the Repertory of Arts by 
 Mr. Wyatt (says Stuart) ninety-nine out of every hundred 
 patents were unknown to any except their authors." It was 
 through it that NICHOLAS WOOD heard of the latest inven- 
 tions (vide his work on Railroads, ist ed,, p. 133), and in 
 WYATT we have to look for references to all our oldest rail- 
 way patents. A majority of the articles are papers descrip- 
 tive of the patents, not merely specifications. 
 Wyatt's Repertory of Arts. 87 vols., extending from 
 1794 to 1842, excepting about ten volumes, but including 
 two INDEXES of PATENTS and PATENTEES, 1815 to 1845. 
 5 55. [Also 45 vols (1805 to 1825), bound into 25 vols., 
 with index and plates. (Price on Application.)] 1794, etc 
 
 The Glasgow Mechanics' Ma&azine. 
 
 CIRCA 396 THE date of the original issue was possibly earlier than that: 
 
 1823 of the (London) Mechanics* Magazine. At any rale, on p. 
 REPRINT 146, Vol. IV., an article on BURSTALL and HILL'S STEAM 
 
 1833 CARRIAGE speaks of it as nearly complete, and the date of 
 AND its patent was, according to HEBERT, Feb. 3, 1824, and 
 
 1839 ace. to Repertory of Arts, Feb. 3, 1825. A second edition' 
 was issued in 1833, when this article was not altered, but a 
 glance at p. 320, Vol. V., describing the " Manch. and 
 Liver." locomotives, shows that additions were made after 
 March, 1831 (a date mentioned). 
 
 On p. 257, vol. I., is an illustration of a LITTLE MODEL LOCO, made on 
 Trevithick's plan by one " J.C.", of the Anderson's Inst., Glasgow, to. : 
 illustrate a lecture by Dr. Ure. This " J.C." was then about to make 
 another only 3 inches long. In the 5th vol. we see an article on Railway 
 Experiments, in which the HIGHLAND Soc. OF SCOTLAND is referred to 
 as considering the defects of land-carriage, and a statement that a pro- 
 posed Assoc. (composed of professors and other scientific men) who will 
 be "happy to avail themselves of the aid of engineers " is about to be 
 started. This " Edin. A ssoc. for Railway Expermts" was to have a 
 
 LITTLE RAILWAY, A LOCOMOTIVE, and a WEIGHING MACHINE. 
 
 Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine. New Edition, with 
 portraits of Watt, Anderson, and Playtair. 5 vols. 2l/ 
 
 Reprint, 1833-4 
 
 Ditto. Re-issue of this New Edition, with Ericcson's 
 loco. Win. IV., and portrait of Playfair. 5 vols. 2 1/ 
 
 Re-issue, 1839 
 
 The Mechanic's Magazine. 
 
 1823-44 397 THIS was edited by J. C. Robertson, who in 1838 
 established the Railway Times (of which he was editor till 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 
123" 
 
 Magazines continued. Reference Books. - 
 
 1840). In the pages of the Mechanics' Magazine we look 
 for the earliest references to the early Mechanism of Rail- 
 ways. Vol. I., published in 1823, had the article from Gray 
 signed *' T. G.", and a reference to Jacob Perkin's famous 
 High Pressure Engine. In 1824 Gray contributes again. 
 The items in other years, while not profuse, are of importance, and 
 space forbids the giving of my list of ry. items, but the desc. in Vol. 
 XL of the opening of the little line near Dudley in 1829 with the 
 Agenoria loco, (vide Strettonj, carrying i ,000 passengers on this occa- 
 sion, must be noted, and also the very fine series of portraits, including 
 those of Braithwaite, William James, and Jacob Perkins. 
 
 Mechanics' Magazine. Vols. I. to XLI. 41 vols. 
 S Si 1823-1844 
 
 Technical Repository. 
 
 1824- 398 MR. THOMAS GILL'S Vol. VI. of the above quotes in five 
 pages the now exceedingly rare prospectus of the LIVERPOOL 
 and MANCHESTER RAILWAY, dated Liverpool, Oct. 2Oth, 
 1824. 
 
 Technical Repository. Vol. VI. 432pp. 8 10/6 
 
 1824 
 Register of Arts. 
 
 824-32 399 THE first volume of this had a view of Palmer's Sus- 
 pension Ry. at Cheshunt on the cover, it was published by 
 G. Hebert, and contained an acct. of Palmer's proposed line 
 to Brighton, with sails, and of course Jacob Perkins was to 
 the fore with his h.p. engine. The same year the 2nd vol. 
 appeared, and had references to the Killingworth Engines, 
 W. H. lames' Ry., James and Gordon's Carriages, Val- 
 lance's Atmos. Ry., and Evans' discovery. In 1828 Vol. I. of the new 
 series appeared, edited by L. Hebert, C.E., and pub.^by Steill. Steam 
 carriages were then the order of the day, but it described the Liverpool 
 contest, and while the Mechanics Magazine supported Braithwaite the 
 Register of Arts preferred GEO. STEPHENSON and his " ROCKET." 
 
 Register of Arts. Vols. I. and II. (1824), and Vols. I. 
 (1828), II., IV., V., VI., and VII. (1832), of the new series. 
 8 vols. 8 Very rare. 2 2s 1824-32 
 
 Mechanics' Register. 
 
 1824-5 400 VOL. L, 1824. contains a criticism of the Prospectus of 
 Liverpool and Manchester Ry., with references to its 
 economy of rates and speed, and its use also for Passengers. 
 Speaks of the BATH and BRISTOL, and Graver.end projects, 
 and advises investment in them ; criticism on the extract 
 from the ' Scotsman" articles, Objections to Railways 
 (proposed DOVER LINE mentioned), Killingworth 
 experiments with assurance of practicability of passenger traffic ; 
 Brown's 'Gas Vacuum' engine criticised (and an order from King 
 Geo. IV. mentioned;, long review of Gray's Observations, Scotsman 
 criticism of Brown's Pneumatic Engine ; Answer re an IRON WAY 
 SUGGESTION BEFORE GRAY. Vols II and III., 1825. 
 Mechanics' Register. First three vols. 8 25/ 
 
 American Mechanics' Magazine. 
 
124 
 
 Magazines continued. Reference Books 
 
 son's, and a speed of 62 reached on the Philadelphia line 
 Vol VIII. in a short sketch of the Hist, of Locomotion in 
 England and America mentions the fine performances of the 
 American locos, on gradients and an intention to run locos 
 over the Alleghanies. 
 
 American Mechanics' Magazine. Vol I. 1833 lo 
 IX. 1837 (Vol IV. missing) 8 vols. 8 hf. calf. -Very rare 
 3 IDS 
 
 Railway Magazine. 
 
 8836-9 404 THIS was the pioneer publication of 'he railway press 
 John Herapath became proprietor and editor in 1836, anc 
 for two years he seems to have had the whole railway field 
 to himself. He was, I think, a native of Bristol, had a 
 curious dispute with Sir Humphrey Davy, and was once 
 offered a professorship at University College. In the railway 
 world he was famous for his investigation into "four or six" 
 wheeled locos, for his oppos- to the Atmospheric System, and to the 
 Stephensons. Before the days when his opponent The Ry. Times 
 tried to ruin the 'London and York' with pure calumny and failed, 
 HERAPATH with enormous power of ridicule made the 'Eastern 
 Counties' a laughing stock and coupled with its early bad management 
 seems to have sapped for ever all its hope of genuine success. But he 
 made many mistakes, as, for example, when he proved that in 1836 that 
 railway trains could not possibly go at So miles an hour. Many 
 extremely valuable papers and maps occur in the early volumes both on 
 construction, and relative to the history of the earl}' companies. The 
 Magazine is growing very scarce, it seems impossible now to get a 
 uniform set, and it will no doubt shortly be unprocurable in any form. 
 
 Railway Magazine. Vols I. to V. (not uniform) 8 edit. 
 5 vols, 1836 101839. $. Vols II. and III. separately, 1837 
 I5/ each. 
 
 Civil Eng. and Architects' Journal. 
 1837-57 405 THE very first article published in this magazine 
 (October 1837) was one of 5^ cols, in length, copiously 
 illustrated, describing American Railway Construction. 
 Notices about English and Foreign railways were here given 
 from the days when the only railway paper was "Herapath," 
 in octavo, when the references to railways were extremely 
 few. It gave some good reviews of books. The first 
 volume also contained an account of the ROBT. 
 STEPHENSON'S PRESENTN. (with a speech by his father), Curtis' 
 Boston R}^. CARRIAGKS^ like the Greenwich, and a review of SIMM'S 
 ''Public Works.' In the following volumes there were many references 
 to the Companies, to construction of railways and locomotives, 
 including Steam Carriages, wood tyred wheels, American locos. ; notes 
 on Dartmoor Ry. (Sept., 41, p. 322), Alan Stevenson's R. Signal 
 Lights (May, 41, p. 150,), Hancock's Train controller, and so on. In 
 1842 rfces. -to Electro Magnetic locos., Stephenson's loco., axles, 
 brakes, gauges, gradients. In -843 review (p. 241,) of Bishopp's 
 Descrip. of NOKKIS'S loco. PHILADELPHIA for the 'B. and Glou.' 
 Ry. : rfcs. to the Blast Pipe (p. 77) ; to Loco. Reversing Appar. (p. 148). 
 In 1844 to Atmosphere Rys. In 18^6 to an important Synopsis of the 
 Kys. incorp. in 1845. In 1847 an article on Rapid Ry. Travelling. In 
 the vol for 1857 a desc. of Neilson'.s improved loco boiler and a short 
 review of Kitson's bk. on lighting trains with gas. 
 
 Published by Edward iJaker, John Bright Street. Birmingham. 
 
125 
 
 Magazines continued. Reference Books. 
 
 Civil Engineer and Architects' Journal. Vols No. i, 
 1837-8, and also for 1839-40-41-42-43-44-46-47 and 57. 
 II vols, sm. 4 ^4 IDS 
 
 Royal Engineers' Papers. 
 
 1837 406 AMONG the papers referring to Railways are Capt. 
 TO Alderson's Report on the ''Manch. Ches." and the "South 
 
 1847 Union" Rys. (both from Manchester to Rugby) with map ; 
 desc. of the Weeden Drawbridge on Lon. and Birm. Ry. ; 
 of the bridge .near Sawley on the Mid. Cnts. line, made at 
 Butterly Wks., with sev. plates and tinted frontis. showing 
 old train with open carr. passing over the beautiful bridge ; 
 
 * rvan^i- on . c \rK=>nn->v'< Pile T^rivino- Marhine. Amer. Rvs. On Piles 
 
 riages, waggons and wheels. 
 
 Papers on Subjects connected with Duties of the R.E. 
 
 The first nine vols, 4 with plates. 4 io/ 1837-4? 
 
 Civil Engineers' Transactions. 
 
 1638 4o6a IN the third volume of the work below occurs the paper 
 
 TO by Mr. Parkes in which he attempted to show that little 
 
 1842 value attached to the elaborate experiments of Pambour, a 
 
 paper whose "pretended verifications" aroused the ire and eloquence of 
 the latter in his edition of 1842. And also a paper by Bury on the 
 "Lond. and Birm." Locos, (illus.) 
 
 Transactions of the Inst. of Civil Engineers. Vols II. 
 and 111. (the latter vol in 5 parts, each in cloth). Altogether 
 6 vols. $ io/ 1838-42 
 
 Mechanic and Chemist. 
 
 1839 407 .1 find in the only procurable copy that the pages of this 
 little Magazine are full of references to railways. The Lickey 
 Incline is dealt with, and a copy of Capt. Moorsom's reply 
 to the charges against him for not employing English engin- 
 eers, saying, " it was not until they (two celebrated engin- 
 eers) had declined to undertake an order that a negotiation 
 was set on foot with an American engineer." On p. 238 it 
 describes " THE ENGLAND," on p. 357 the So. Austra- 
 lian Ry. 
 
 The Mechanic and Chemist 39pp. dS Vol. IV. 10/6 
 
 1839 
 The Railway Times. 
 
 1838-53 408 THE Railway Times was the first weekly railway 
 paper. It became a success, and when opponents appeared 
 it took the lead as the most widely circulated of all. For 
 1838 and most of 1839 it is the only great record of the 
 doings of the early companies. Herapath was published 
 weekly in quarto in 1839, an d they then together represented 
 the weekly press till 1844, when other good papers appeared. 
 The 'limes tried desperately to kill the " London and York," presum- 
 ably to satisfy the Eastern Counties, London and Birm., and Mid- 
 land powers. It must have grown wealthy from advertisements of 
 the mania, and from its pages' may be best traced thfe whole careers 
 
126 
 
 Magazines continued. [Reference Books, 
 
 of the older companies. From a most interesting review of the worl 
 ofS. SMILES' on Railway Property, in its issue of Feb. 10, 1^49, p. 135 
 we can trace many important opinions which guided the policy of the 
 paper with reference to finance, the paying quality of railways, th 
 lightness, &e., of boilers, the size of locos., the frequency of trains 
 Adams' and Samuels' steam-carriage system and light trains. 
 
 Railway Times. Half mor. From commencement, 1838- 
 
 1853. 18 vols. 9 gs 
 
 Another set, cloth, 14 vols., 1839-1851. 7 
 
 TEN MODERN VOLUMES (1869 to 1878), 35/ 
 
 A Curious Journal. 
 
 1841 409 The Railroad Monthly [or Quarterly] Journal would be of 
 interest if only for the light it throws on one of the most in- 
 teresting minor characters of early railway history, Lieut. 
 PETER LKCOUNT, R.N. He evidently wished not to be 
 known as editor, but correspondence was to be addressed to 
 him, and whoever was its editor talked like Lecount's book, 
 " swore" like a seasoned sailor at the gallant officer's enemy, 
 Webb, and knew the London and Birmingham Railway 
 sanctum sanctorum troubles off by heart. Its longest article was on 
 RY. ACCIDENTS. Edward Bury the great locomotive maker, is here 
 called the Locomotive Jockey (and something worse), and though I 
 have not yet discovered when the galUnt officer fell foul of his old 
 line the L. and B. -certain it is that even that "pattern" railway 
 (like every other offender) got a long and sound drubbing in these 
 pages. It is curious to note that cool references are made to the 
 London and Birm., the Grand June., and the Croydan, and further 
 on the Eastern Counties paying dividends out of capital. It must be 
 the third railway journal, and is extremely rare. 
 
 Railroad Monthly Journal. Six of the Eight Numbers. 
 In parts. 8 3O/ 1841 
 
 Weaie's Quarterly Papers on Engineering. 
 
 1843-5 410 IN the first volume are Memoirs of WM. JESSOP, JAS. 
 BRINDLEY, and WM. CHAPMAN, with beautiful little ports. 
 And in the second Mallet's Report on DALKEY RY., Art. 
 on Gill's PNEU. Locos., Sir J. Rennie on Holyhead and 
 Port Dynllaen, Wood on Fuel in " Liv. and M." Locos, and 
 Sir J. Macneili's Report on Atmos. Rys. 
 Weaie's Quarterly Papers on Engineering. 2 vols. 4 
 hf. morocco. .3 35 ! 843-5 
 
 THE ARTISAN. 
 
 1843-5 411 V!HIS paper commenced a New Series in 1843 with Vol I. 
 and in it had a good review of French and Belgian Rys. and 
 of the famous pamphlet on "Railway Reform" with which 
 it agreed, in i844articles on Ry. Legislation and Atmospheric 
 Rys. and in 1845 ^ on S reviews of Macd. Stephenson's 
 Rept. on Indian Rys. and of Wilson's pamphlet on Gray, 
 Articles on Webb's Colonnade Railways, on the Gauge 
 Question etc. 
 
 The Artisan. Vols I. II. and III. New Series. 
 3 vols, 30; 1843-5 
 
 Published by Edwanl Baker, John Bright, btrcct, Birmingham. 
 
127 
 
 Magazines continued. [Reference Books-. 
 
 THE RAILWAY CHRONICLE. 
 
 1845-8 412 THIS representative of the Liverpool interests was founded 
 in April 1844. It prided itself on its independence, and did 
 not believe in personal paper battles. Though no railway 
 paper in those days could afford to neglect the all important 
 matter of shares and companies when advertisements at 
 fancy prices were strewed broadcast, still it had frequent 
 references and illustrations of mechanical inventions (in- 
 cluding a great loco for the Glasgow Incline) and was a 
 publication of a high class. The mania of course gave vivacity to its 
 pages and it describes on one page a projected royal railroad between 
 five of the Queen's palaces and being asked on the same page " Is there 
 to be a railway crisis?" says " No a mania exists now but it is not a. 
 railway mania, it is only A PROSPECTUS MANIA " ! ! 
 
 Railway Chronicle. Vols from 1845 to 1848. 5 vols, 
 
 4 2 I0 / 
 Mechanical Engineers' Proceedings. 
 
 1847 4i2a THE Civil Engineers and GEO. STEPHENSON were both 
 TO proud, and so it came about that "the founder of the school 
 
 1892 of Modern Engineers" could not conveniently comply with 
 the etiquette of the great C. E.'s Institute to become a member. 
 Instead of which he favoured Birmingham by founding a Society j 
 Mechanical Engineers here, and it was only about a fortnight before 
 his death in 1848 that he read to them his paper on the Fallacy of the 
 Rotatory Engine. According to a recent enquiry the Society's charge 
 for a Set of the Proceedings to a non-member would be about ,50 
 bound. The very fine set below is therefore an unusually cheap one. 
 
 Proceedings of the Mechanical Engineers. From the 
 
 Commencement in 1847 to 1881 (well and strongly bound) 
 thence to 1892. Clean, in parts. The whole Set, ^27 IO/ 
 
 BARLOW'S PATENT JOURN L. 
 
 1848-51 413 THE journal below illustrated and described patents in 
 those days and many references will no doubt be found 
 among the pages but it has not been possible to secure a 
 complete set. 
 
 Patent Journal. By Chas. Barlow and E. J. Payne 
 of the Patent Office, Chancery Lane. Vol V. 8 (May 27 to 
 Sept. 30 1848 and 5 vols in 4 1848 to 1851) 6 vols. 2i/ 
 
 1848-51 
 
 The Artisan. 
 
 1851-61 414 DURING the period covered by the volume below a very 
 large number of important articles and notes on Railway 
 Construction, I echanism, etc., appeared in these papers, 
 Mr. Zerah Colburn was a contributor on American Loco. 
 Engineering, coal burning locomotives, etc., and in 1860 
 portraits of Robt. Stephenson, I. K. Brunei, and Jos. 
 Locke appeared on the title page of the volume. Among 
 matters referred to may be mentioned Adams on the Permanent Way, 
 Samuel's Engines, Steep Gradient Locos., Beattie's Coal Burning 
 Locos. (1857), Brakes, Ry. Carriages, Water Tube Boilers, East Lancas. 
 Ry. saving ,1,680 in 6 mos. by using coal for coke (1859,), numerous 
 references to the progress and construction of foreign and English 
 railways. There is no index to the last volume, and I have found a 
 page missing elsewhere. I believe it is otherwise complete, but it is 
 impossible to guarantee it so. 
 
 The Artisan. 12 vols. 4 4 4/ 1851101861 
 
128 
 Magazines continued. [Reference Book 
 
 ENGINEERS' PROCEEDINGS. 
 1852-3 415 TAKING the volume for 1852-3 as a specimen in it w 
 tind a memoir of the famous old Scotch railway enginee 
 THOS. GRAINGER the maker of the " Monkland am 
 Kirkmtilloch " (the first edge railway in Scotland) ; anothe 
 of JOHN SYLVESTER ; an illustrated paper on the Creosoting 
 of Timber, paper by D. K. CLARK on Locomotive Boilers 
 Taking the later volumes in 1876-7 there are amoni 
 ABSTRACTS Raab's paper on Peat as fuel for locos, in 187' 
 M. Lestang describes Mallet's Locos with Compounc 
 Cylinders, in 1877 the papers on the Oldenburg narrow gauge railways 
 and steam traction on light railways, in 1879 paper on the Wylam Ry. 
 bridge, and on a Polymeterfor grading Rys. ;and the volumes continue 
 past the date of the ELECTRIC RAILWAY. 
 
 Proceedings of Inst. of Civil Engineers. Vol XLIX 
 1877 to CX. 1892. 62 vols and brief subject index to Vols 
 LIX. to LXXXVI. Almost as new. 12 I2/ 
 
 22 Vols publishers' cloth and 40 in paper covers as issued. 
 
 - ANOTHER LOT. Vols LXXI. to LXXVII. and 
 LXXXIII. to XC. 16 vols, thick 8 taper cevers, 2 5/ 
 
 1882-8 
 
 - ANOTHER LOT for Sessions 1847, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53 
 5 vols not quite perfect but will be sent on approval. 
 half calf, RARE. 42/ 1847- 
 
 Such early volumes are often valuable for completing sets. 
 
 Scrap Book Copies. 
 
 416 COLLECTORS who like to have two additional Copies for pasting 
 into a SCRAP BOOK (leaving room for Cuttings and MS. 
 Notes relating to the persons, companies, etc., referred to) 
 can have the three copies for 2/6. We hope to be able to 
 supply many additional notes in some form or other. 
 
 "Engineer" and "Engineering." 
 
 1866-93 417 THOUGH we have not yet made the jump to a speed 
 
 1873 of iboo miles an hour the leading engineering papers have 
 
 TO had some exceedingly interesting events to chronicle for the 
 
 1830 railway world between 1866 and 1880 concerning the 
 
 Mont Cenis and Mt Rigi Railways, the Larmenjat (one 
 
 rail) Railway, the great Brake Trials, the New York 
 
 Elevated Street Railway, etc., etc. 
 
 Engineer ; Jan. 1866 to March, 1893 first 43 vols in cloth. 
 
 rem. in Nos. The lot ^"17 I7/ 
 
 Engineering-. Vols XV. 1873 to Vol XXX. 1880. 16 
 
 vols, well bnd. hf. cf. 5 10 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 An Index will be published separately, price i/-, should 
 there be any demand for the same. 
 
 BIRMINGHAM: 
 
 W. J. COSBY, UNIVERSAL PRESS, 6t, MOOR ST<?KFT. 
 
.BBREVIATIOMS, ETC. , as follows are used in this Handbook : 8 = 8vo. p3 3 , d8, 
 r8, 18 for Post, demy, royal and imf>. 8vo. -2^ 2 vols. II. - frustrated. 
 bds. ^boards. wr.= wrappers. N.D. =not dated. Ry. ^railway, L. and 
 M.= London and Manchester Railway. Rept. = Report. Op. = Opened. 
 Gt. = Great. Eng. = Engineer. 
 
 ""ME WORD " sup #" is used to indicate that a further reference to a book occurs on 
 some previous page of this Handbook; and " infra" to indicate a subsequent 
 page. 
 
 IZES OF BOOKS here indicated ; 48 = 4". 32 = 4 J". 24 = 5". i6 - 5 i"sq. 18'- 
 5i-6". 12 -6". p8-7", 8-8". d8-9". roy. 8 - 10". All Approx. 
 
 Special IRotes* 
 
 PUBLISHER'S NOTE.-PRICES. 
 
 Owing to an unexpected demand for many scarce little pamphlets 
 and works I have been compelled to considerably raise my price in 
 several cases to retain them for those completing large collections. 
 
 ERRATA. 
 
 WHLSHAW has been spelt several times WISHAW. No. 202 (p. 57^ should 
 have been on p. 38 ; 203 (p. 68) on p. 57 ; and the headlines DESCRIP. of 
 Co.'s (pp. 49-57) should be HISTORY of the Co.'s. No. 146 is 1841, i62A is 
 1854. 
 
 DATES. 
 
 DATES OF AMALGAMATION. 
 
 1844 Midland [3 Cos.] | 1846 Lond. Brighton and So. Coast 
 
 1846 L. & N. W. R. [3 Cos.] [Croydon and Brighton Cos.] 
 
 A FEW GENERAL DATES. 
 
 1802 
 1814 
 1825 
 1830 
 1834 
 
 i8 3 Q 
 1840 
 1840 
 1841 
 
 1842 
 
 '843 
 1844 
 
 Trevithick's Loco. 
 
 Geo. Stephenson's Loco 
 
 Stock, and Darl. opened 
 
 Liv. and Man. Ry. opened 
 
 "FIRE-FLY" speed 20 
 
 Grand June, opened 
 
 London and Birm. opened 
 
 throughout 
 
 "NORTH STAR" speed 39 
 
 Birm. and Derby opened 
 
 Mid. Counties [throughout] 
 
 Rugby to Derby 
 
 York and N. Mid. York to 
 
 Normanton 
 
 Gt. North of England [York and 
 
 Darl.] 
 
 Queen uses railways 
 
 Dalkey Atmospheric Railway 
 
 Newcas. and Darl. opened 
 
 "Magna Charta of Eng. Travell. 
 
 Public." 
 
 1847 Newcas. and Berwick opened 
 
 1848 Geo. Stephenson died 
 
 1852-7 Great Company Competitions 
 
 1853 8 1 miles per hr. Bris. and Ex. 
 
 1854 Coal as Fuel 
 
 1857 GT. NORTHERN'S REDPATH\S 
 
 Frauds 
 
 1859 Robt. Stephenson died 
 1862 Steel Rails introduced 
 
 1867 Mt. Cenis Ry. 
 
 1868 Smoking Carriages 
 
 1871 Mt. Rigi Ry. 
 
 1872 Third Class Passengers conveyed 
 by Express Trains 
 
 1875 Gt. Trial of Brakes 
 
 1877-8 New York Elevated Street Rys. 
 
 1881 Electric Ry. at Berlin 
 
 1893 Daily News reports possible 
 
 Electric Ry. travelling at i 5 ooo 
 
 m. per hr. 
 
 Published by Edward Baker, John Bright Street, Birmingham. 
 

 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 HISTORY OF THE SYSTEM 
 HISTORY OF CONSTRUCTION ... 
 HISTORY OF THE LINES 
 
 Public Plate Lines 
 
 Propos. Pass. Routes 
 
 Descr. of Lines, Pictures, etc. 
 
 History of the Co.s. 
 
 The Guides 
 
 The Maps... 
 
 The Time Tables ... 
 HISTORY OF LOCOMOTION 
 
 Steam Carriages ... 
 
 Street Railways ... 
 
 Atmospheric System 
 
 Electricity, etc. 
 
 Steam Engines 
 
 Locomotive Engines 
 
 Dixon Correspondence ... 
 
 Railway Carriages 
 
 Water Locomotion Canals 
 Steam Navigation 
 REFERENCE BOOKS 
 
 Biographical 
 
 Dixon Correspondence (contd.)... 
 
 Financial ... 
 
 Legal and Parl. ... 
 
 Lists, Analyses 
 
 Various References and Medals... 
 
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NOTES 09 
 EARLIEST RAILWAY PUBLICATIONS 
 
 HANDBOOK. 
 
 Nos. AND PAGES ARE REFERENCES TO HANDBOOK. 
 
 FIRST PERIOD Before 1800. 
 (Including the CuGNOT and MURDOCH Period.) 
 ] ba\>e in tbC fbanfcbOOfc inserted three items for this period, 
 Gborograpbta (No. 51 ) for its historical connection with the 
 first seat of English railways or tramways ; JStamab'S XCttCC 
 (No. 272), for its connection with the inventor of the first steam 
 carriage expressly built for passengers ; and the' IRepertOrg Of 
 Brta (No. 395) as the only place of record to find the earliest 
 patented devices for locomotion the first volume commencing 
 1794, and continuing to recent times. No contemporary records of 
 MURDOCH or CUGNOT are yet to hand. 
 
 SECOND PERIOD 1801 to 1809* 
 
 (Including the TREVITHICK Period.) 
 
 TbC half-dozen items for this period include 2ltt&Ct60n (No. 1) 
 
 as the first suggester of a system of railways ; jijoimg (No. 
 
 52) for his advocacy of iron rails for quick travelling ; the original 
 
 plan of the ffiflmarnocfc an& ttroqn IRaflwag (now part of the 
 
 Olasgow and South-Western Railway) (No. 122A) as a memento 
 of the oldest passenger locomotive railway in Scotland a railway 
 which sent to GEORGE STEPHENSON for a locomotive Ion* 
 before the Stockton and Darlington line ; the curious (5(OUCC6te? 
 mt& Cbeltenbam /llbe&al, with its ancient Stephenson locomo- 
 tive (No. 122s) ; and two records of the canal system before rail- 
 ways became feared. TREVITHICK'S locomotive was running in 
 1802, but I have not publicly offered for sale any contemporary 
 record of it. 
 
 THIRD PERIOD 1810 to 1824. 
 
 (The BLENKINSOPP and STEPHENSON period.) 
 
 TbC great Plate lines were now well in evidence (see Handbook 
 1 pp. 30-31). BLENKINSOPP'S locomotive (No. 165A) ran in 
 1802 ; STEPHENSON'S first in 1813. (Brag published the first 
 edition of his Observations in 1820 (for edition of 1822 see No. 165) ; 
 MEDHURST made the first suggestion for an Atmospheric Railway,' 
 1812 (No. 258) ; Steam Vessels (see page 101) appeared on our 
 rivers , the first works on Steam Engines began to appear (p. 86) ; 
 various dfcCCbamCS' /IRa^a3tne0 started, now invaluable records 
 of this period (p. 122) ; SMEATON published his famous 
 1RepOrt0 (No. 273) ; ROGER NORTH wrote his extraordinary 
 
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 FIRST EDITION, 10s6d, 1825 
 
 508 
 
 17 
 
 On Railroud and Steam O3.rri3. n 'es SECONP 
 
 
 
 
 EDITION, 10s6d, 1835 
 
 509 
 
 91 
 
 On the Steam Engine, edited by Wool- 
 
 
 
 house, 2 vols, thick 4to, 15s, 1838 
 
 510 
 
 91 
 
 with plates, in Folio, 25s,183S-40 
 
 511 
 
 95 
 
 On the Steam Engine, 15s, 1850 
 
 511 
 
 95A 
 
 IQc, 
 
 512 
 
 23 
 
 Strength of Materials,2 vols, 8vo,5s6d, 1842 
 
 513 
 
 109 
 
 Trevithick, Francis. Life of Richard Trevithick, 
 
 
 
 2 vols, d8vo, 10s6d, 1872 
 
 514 
 
 109 
 
 Rich., Memorial Edition of Life of, 3s 
 
 515 
 
 10 
 
 Trial for Libel [Mr. Hudson and ' * The Yorkshire- 
 
 
 
 man"}, 17s6d, 1850 
 
 516 
 
 7 
 
 Troup, Jas. Railway Reform and Rights of the 
 
 
 
 Public in Rv. Highways, 39pp. 8vo, 
 
 
 
 10s6d, 1846 
 
 517 
 
 85 
 
 Turnbull, Wm, Essay on the Air Pump and 
 
 
 
 Atmosph. Ry., 5s, 1847 
 
Title Index to the Railway Handbook. 
 
 25 
 
 NO. 
 
 PageHl>k. 
 
 
 518 
 
 29 
 
 Tyler, Capt. Circulation and Communication in 
 
 
 
 Ky. Trains, 5s6d, 1865 
 
 519 
 
 55 
 
 Tyrell's Letter to G.W.R. Director, 5s6d, 1850 
 
 520 
 
 116 
 
 Tuck. Shareholders' Manuals 
 
 521 
 
 97 
 
 \ /aeuum Brake 
 
 522 
 
 40 
 
 Venice and Milan Ry. Prospectus, 21s, 1837-8 
 The Second Great Italian Project. 
 
 523 
 
 94 
 
 "Veritas Yincit" Letters, 5s, 1847 
 
 524 
 
 49 
 
 Viaducts (Stockton Ry.), Photos. 
 
 525 
 
 3 
 
 Visions of Western Rail'ys, roy. 8vo, cZo^,5s,183$ 
 
 526 
 
 102 
 
 \ K /aldron ON STEAM VESSELS, 30s, 1826 
 
 527 
 
 71 
 
 "Walkers. London, Croydon and Brighton Ry, 
 
 
 
 map [1840], 2s6d 
 
 528 
 
 68 
 
 Map Warwickshire 1836 3s6d 
 
 529 
 
 14 
 
 Waring, Chas. State Purchase of Railways, 8vo, 
 
 
 
 c.,.6s, 1887 
 
 530 
 
 7 
 
 Watson, Jas. A Paper on the Present Railway 
 
 
 
 Crisis (The 1845-6 Panic), 22pp., 8vo, 
 
 
 
 7s6d, 1846 
 
 531 
 
 126 
 
 Weale's Quarterly Papers on Engineering, 2 vols, 
 
 
 
 4to, 35s, 1843-5 
 
 532 
 
 42 
 
 Wear Valley Railway Original Coloured Plan, 
 
 
 
 7s6d, 1844 
 
 533 
 
 67 
 
 Welford, Rich. Handbook to Tynemouth 
 
 
 
 and Guide to Ely the and Tyne Ry., 
 
 
 
 3s6d [1863] 
 
 534 
 
 66 
 
 Westerton (Chas.) Bradshaw's Pleasure Guide to 
 
 
 
 the So.-East Ry., 18mo, wr., 5s6d, 1844 
 
 535 
 
 120 
 
 Westmininter Review, No. LXXXVI., 1845, 5s6d 
 
 
 
 Gray's claims defended. Prophecy no horses five years hence. 
 
 536 
 
 118 
 
 Whishaw, F. Analysis of Railways, 8vo, cloth, 
 
 
 
 10s, 1837 
 
 537 
 
 119 
 
 The Railways of Gt. Britain and Ireland, 
 
 
 
 4 to, cloth, 15s, 1840, or 1842 
 
 538 
 
 9 
 
 Whitehead, John. Railway and Govt. Guaran- 
 
 
 
 tee, 8vo, 5s, 1849 
 
 539 
 
 13 
 
 Williams, A. J. Appropriation of Rys. by the 
 
 
 
 State [see also p. ] 
 
 540 
 
 27 
 
 Williams, F. S. Our Iron Roads, 7s6d, 1852 
 
 541 
 
 97 
 
 Ditto 7Cd 1883 
 
 542 
 
 Af 
 
 57 
 
 The Midland Railway, 7s6d 
 
 545 
 
 13 
 
 -R. P. Railway Rolling Stock 
 
 546 
 
 44 
 
 J. J. The Isthmus of Tehuantepic Ry^ 
 
 
 
 Col. plates, 5s6d, 1852 
 
Title Index to the jfrtilway Handbook. 
 
 Xo. 
 
 FagLJlUL: 
 
 547 
 
 105 
 
 548. , 
 
 43 
 
 549 
 
 65 
 
 550 
 
 106 
 
 551 
 
 77 . 
 
 552 
 
 16 
 
 553 
 
 16 
 
 554 
 
 18 
 
 555 
 
 104 
 
 556 
 557 
 558 
 
 117 
 122 
 63 
 
 559 
 
 71 
 
 560 
 
 61 
 
 ,561 
 
 71 
 
 562 
 .563 
 564 
 565 
 
 70 
 73 
 
 74 
 64 
 
 566 
 
 54 
 
 567 
 
 53 
 
 568 
 
 82 
 
 569 
 
 15 
 
 Williamson, Geo.' Memorials of James A\ r a.tt, 
 
 fine plates, 4to, 21s, 1856 
 Thos. Ry. Conmiun. in Western India, 
 
 8vo, 7s, 1846 
 Willox, J. Guide to Ed in. and Glasgow, Ry., 
 
 7s6d, 1842 
 Wilson, Thos. The Railway System and its 
 
 Author. THOS. GRAY., 21s, 1845 
 Wilts and Somerset Ry. [Chippenham toWestbury],' 
 
 Opening Sheet of Times and Fares, 
 
 10s6d, 1848 
 Wood, Nicholas. Railroads, THE FIRST EDITION 
 
 [with no "ridiculous expectations"], 
 
 314pp., plates, 10s6d, 1825 
 Railroads, THE SECOND EDITION 
 
 [with the "ridiculous expectations" 
 
 realized anil accounted for], 7s6d, 1832 
 Treatise on Railroads, THIRD 
 
 EDITION [with even more "ridiculous 
 
 expectations realised], 8 vo, cl., 5s, 1838 
 Woodcroft, B. Origin and Progress of Steam 
 
 Navigation, 21s, 1848 
 
 Wordsworth's Law of Joint Stock Cos., 3s6d, 1837 
 Wyatt's Repertory of Arts 
 Wyld's Great Western Guide, 18mo, doth, 10s6d, 
 
 1839 
 
 Cheltenham and Bris- 
 tol Ry. Map, 3s6d, 1839 
 London and Birmingham Guide, with 
 
 map, 18mo, cloth, 5s6d, 1838 
 London, Birmingham, and Manchester 
 
 Ry. Map. 2s6d, 1839 
 
 Railroad Map (Gt. Britain), 1838, 5s6d 
 
 Railway Map of Gt. Britain, 1849, 4s 
 
 Railway Map of Gt. Britain, 1861, 2s6d 
 
 Sou th-Western Railway Guide, with maps, 
 
 ISmo, cloth, 10s6d [184,0] 
 
 York and North Midland Original 
 Reports, Hudson Crisis, 1849 
 
 Newcastle, and Berwick Ry., Hudson 
 
 Crisis, Original Reports, 1849 
 Young and Holley. Steam on Common Roads, 
 
 7s6d, I860 
 
 - Thos. Natural Philosophy, 2 vols, 4 to, 
 with coloured and plain plates, 35s, 1807 
 
Subject Index to the Raihvay Handbook. 
 
 27 
 
 SUBJECT IflDEX 
 
 TO 
 
 THE RAILWAY HANOBOOK. 
 
 (The numbers refer to items in HANDBOOK.) 
 
 ABUSE of Power by Cos., 
 12. 16, 33, 89 
 
 of Rights by Public, 13,17 
 
 (set; also Life of George btephenson, 
 History of Kentish Railways, 
 
 - G.N.R., etc. 
 
 Acts, 373, 375 
 
 Allport, 309 
 
 Amalgamation (Treble). So. West., 
 
 L. and N.W.R., and G.W.R., 173 
 American, 414 
 
 - Claims. 300 
 
 Engineering (1538), 67 
 
 Locos.. 67, 300, 307. 403 
 
 Railways (xee Honey, 117, 
 
 Fox, 121, Stevenson, 67) 
 
 Engineers, 318 
 
 Steamboats, 334 
 
 Trans-isthmus Lines (1852), 
 
 159 
 
 Arago, 351a 
 
 Atlases (see So. Union Ry. (137) (C) ; 
 Irish Commission (210) 
 
 Atmospheric Ry., 37, 44, 178, 191 
 
 360, 399, 404, 410. 411 
 
 (Portsmouth), 173 
 
 Atmospheric Rys. First Suggestions, 
 258 : Mann's System (30 miles for 
 Id.), 26T ; Clegg's First Applica- 
 tion, 262 ; Pira on Advantages, 
 263 : Pirn on Speed and Cheapness ; 
 Smith and B. Adverse Report 
 Bergin's Reply, 264a, 265: Com- 
 mons Report, 267a ; French and 
 German Items, 266, 268. See also 
 Rennie's Autobiography ; Jones 
 (speed 1,000 miles per hour). 
 
 Australian Ry. Medal, 394 
 
 Ayrshire Ry. Guide (1841), 1033 (a) 
 
 BALTIMORE and OHIO 
 RAILWAY, 300 
 
 Beaumont, " Master," 56 
 Belgian Medal. 394 
 
 Rys., 35, 165h 
 
 Rys (see also Gait), 1865 
 
 Time Tables (Early j, 238 
 
 Bidder, 137c, 134 
 
 Birkenshaw (see Longridge) 
 
 Birmingham, Earliest Railway from. 
 See Lond. and Birm. ( 1824) 
 
 Birin., First Three Old Lines, 204 
 
 Blackett (** Wood) 
 
 Blast, 324b, 324c, 361. 362 
 
 Blenkinsopp, 114, 380 
 
 (tfi'.e Colburn) 
 Board of Trade, 147 
 Boiler, 314 
 
 Best, 324c 
 
 Bolton and Leigh Ry., 368c 
 Booth, Henry, 361 
 Bradshaw, 25 
 
 237/, et. seq. 
 
 - Story of, 241 
 
 - (The Comic), 238^ 
 Braithwuite (Portrait), 397 
 Brake Trials, 417 
 
 Bricklayers' Line (see Pemberton) 
 
 Bridges, 69, 74a 
 
 Bridge (Chepstow, 1856) (see Hbk. r 
 
 No. 109, p. 27; Nethan Bridge 
 
 (see Trans. Eng. , Scot.) 
 Bridges (Stephen son's), l(J5wi 
 
 R. Stephenson on, 368i 
 
 Brighton and Croydon Lines in 1840. 
 
 (see Walker's Map ; in 1841, see 
 
 Jobbing*). 1032 
 Brighton Rys., 366, 1032-3 
 
 (see Troup, Laing) 
 Bris., Birm and Thames Jn. Ky.,191 
 Brogden 1466 
 
 Brown's Gas Engine, 281, 282, 284 
 (*ee Tredgold), 57 
 Brunei, I. K. (Portrait), 414 
 Budge, 362 
 Burnett, Mr., 367 
 Bury, 167 
 
 n ALEDONI AN^ RAILW A. Y 
 
 V MAP, (1847), 229 
 
 Canals, 325 
 
 Carr (tee Wood), 56 
 
 Carriage : Travell. on Rys. in Private 
 
 Carriages, 241 
 Bad Accommodation, 39, 39a 
 
 Third-Class. 324; 
 
 Illustrated (see 385J 
 
 Central Kent Ry., i012 
 
 Chester Station barricaded, 324^/ 
 
 Chimneys, 354 
 
 Clarence Ry., 392 (see at so Day). 
 
 Clearing House (see Morison) 
 
 Coal Trunk Line Suggested, 151 
 
 " Cock Lane Ghost, History of, "1014 
 
 Colebrookdale, 56. 103, 
 
 Colburn, Zerah, 414 
 
 Colonnade Rys., 4il 
 
 Communication with Guard, 116 
 
28 
 
 Index to Ike Hallway Handbook. 
 
 Companies' Prospects. 31 
 
 (1S38), 382 
 
 Compound Engines, 274e 
 Constable's, 138 
 Contest, 358. 703 
 
 Prixe (to Robert S., not 
 
 George). 324/ 
 Continental Rys., 35. 117 
 Creed, ]U7 
 
 Creosoted Timber, 368fc 
 Croydon Ry.. 304 
 Cundy's Observations, 133 
 Cugnot, 353 
 
 (s<:e Col burn, Adams), 114 
 
 Curiosities of Early Trains,1018, 1035 
 
 nALHOUSIE, Lord (see 
 Ll Morrison, 1848, on his p. 25) 
 Dartmoor Uy.. 405 
 Date of Openings, 386 
 Denison (Chairman G.N.R.), 181 
 Dick. 380 
 
 Directors Pass (1837) 166 
 Dividends, Good. 382 
 Dixon 146c, lf>3, 200, 309. 353, B6Sb 
 Drogheda Railway, 700,000 sacrifice 
 suggested, 148 
 
 UARLE, Hardman, 3246 
 
 Early Projects, 400 
 
 Railway Curiosities 207 
 
 Earthwork Tables 61-64 
 
 East Coast Route 171-172 
 
 Eastern Counties Ry. 33, 183, 404 
 
 Finance (see Rail- 
 way Magazine early numbers, 
 " Railways and Shareholders") 
 
 Edinburgh and Glasgow Ry. 1034 
 
 Electric Locos. 405 
 
 Railways (1839) 76 
 
 Engine Drivers 310 
 
 Engineers' Bad Pay 137a (see Ren- 
 
 nie's EvidenceBrightonRy.,No.l34y 
 Civil v. Mechanical, see 
 
 21, 358, 114 
 Engineers Opposition to North 
 
 Country Engineers (see Evidence 
 
 for Brighton Ry.. 134) 
 Engineers' Pretensions '21 (p. 33, etc.) 
 Ericsson 366, 368 
 Estimates 168 
 Euphrates Ry. (1857) 160 
 Euston Station 1012 
 Evans, Oliver, 275, 300 
 Evaporation 314 
 Excursion Trains 241 
 Expansive Engines 312 
 
 CARES 12, 43, 45, 391 
 
 Nominal 194 
 
 Reduction 239 
 
 Farcy 245^. '_94 
 
 Finance of Cos. in 1849, 371 
 
 (1856-73) 372 
 
 Loan System, see Berming- 
 
 ham, 1838 
 
 Firbank 3(58 
 
 Fordharn's Air Engines, 287 
 
 Forfeit 700,000 Suggested, 148 
 
 Foster, J., 367 
 
 " Fourteen per cent." Line 203 
 
 French Locos, and Carriages 746 
 
 French Rys. 1025 
 
 Fuel 146, 314. 410,414,415 
 
 Turf (1826) 128 
 
 Fulton, Hamilton, see Rennie's Evi- 
 dence for Brighton Ry., 134 
 
 Furness Railway 36S 
 
 G 
 
 AS ENGINES, 400 
 
 - Brunels and Brown's 288 
 Gauge, Broad, 176 
 
 xte also Narrow Gauge 
 
 and Francis' History 37 
 
 Germany Rys. 35, 43 
 German Time Tables (Early) 238 
 Gilbert 299 
 Giles 140 
 
 so: Rennie's Evidence for Brigh- 
 ton Ry. 134 
 Gladstone's Act, 1844 (see Morrison, 
 
 184b), 28 
 Glasgow and Berwick Ry. (1810 (see 
 
 Telford), 122ti 
 Glasgow and Garnkirk Works, 70 
 
 Incline, 412 
 Gooch, 196 
 Goods Traffic Proposed (see Berming- 
 
 ham, 1841,), 146 
 Govt. Control of Rys., 39<x 
 Grand Junction Guides: Cornis 
 
 Freeling, Osborne, Drake, 1008 
 Grand Junction, Proposal to Work, 
 
 Eating, 26 [368c 
 
 Title altered, 369 
 Grand Northern Ry., 138 
 Gray. Thos., 352^, 353, 388 
 
 397, 400, 411 
 
 (.sec also Francis' Chroni- 
 
 cle*, Francis History) 
 Great Britain Rys. 1845, see Brad- 
 shaw Map, 213 ; 1848, see Cheffins, 
 230: 1849, we Wyld. 231; 1851, 
 Mfccuulay, 233 ; 1861, Wyld, 235 
 Great Eastern Ry., 201, 1012 
 
 (.xv -,', Eastern Counties) 
 
 Lorid. and Birm Ry. (1826), 134 
 
 London and Liverpool Ry. 
 
 (Grand June.), 1846 ; 369 
 Great Northern, 408, 1039, 1042-3 
 Great North of England Ry., 136,184 
 G.W.R.,33, 70, 1H6 
 Construction of, 237</ 
 
Subject Index to the Railway Handbook. 
 
 29 
 
 G.W.R., Rating (nee Penfold) ; Bal- 
 ance Sheets (see " Railways 
 and Shareholders) 
 
 (Bristol and So. Wales), 102n 
 
 Finance, 190 
 
 - Oppos. to So. West.. 175 
 
 (see alxo Francis' History ),37 
 
 Greenwich Ry., 299 
 
 Guards (see Lecount), 74 
 
 Gurney, 242-3, 246a, 247,249 ; Lard- 
 
 ner, 298 ; Great Success , 1829-33 ; 
 
 and Explosion in 1834 (see Ritchie), 
 
 94, also 289, 384 
 
 UACK WORTH, S24a, e,f, 359 
 
 Hall 
 
 Sail, Samuel, H41-2 
 Hancock, 245, 247/t, 250, 289, 389 ; 
 
 also Lardner. 298 
 " Harvey Combe," 70 
 Hay (Plate) Ry., 122c 
 Healtk, Influence of Rys. on, 42 
 Hedley, 56, 859 
 Henderson, Col. (see Hants and 
 
 Wilts Ry., 140 
 Herapath, 301, 404 
 
 (see Kollman), 75 
 Hick of Bolton, 324/ 
 Holy head (tee Dublin and London), 
 
 137 
 
 HolyheadOwe Stephenson Repoi-t).l44 
 Hornblower Infring., 272 ; Port.274rt 
 Horses. Prophecy of Extinction, 388 
 Hudson, 1406 
 Hudson Crisis, 134-5 
 Hudson, Geo. [Railway King] (see 
 Spackman, 30 ; Trial, 34 : Francis, 37 
 Hulls, Jonathan, 334 ; 'Portrait, 274a; 
 
 First Steamboat (illus.), 397, Vol I. 
 Humours of Early Travelling, 1035 
 Hydraulic Sails for Inclines (we 
 
 Lecount), 74 
 
 NCLINE LOCOS., 414 
 
 Inclines, 118 
 
 4U3 
 
 (see Facts ami Opinions), 118 ; 
 
 Fairlie, 119 
 
 (sue Kollman), 75 
 
 (see Lecount;, 74 
 
 in 1820 (see Sanderson), 127 
 
 Indian Railways, 411 
 
 Rys. Map (1840,), 228 
 
 Indian Railways. 150,152, 154.158,163-4 
 Indicator (Hopkinson's;, 321 
 Inventions, List of, 395 
 Ireland, Routes to. 144 
 Irish Rys., 1!>5, 147. 155 
 
 in 1842 (AM Li/ar's Map), 
 
 222 ; 1S50 (see Bett's 
 Map), 232 
 
 Irish Rys., Early (see Nimmo), 128 
 
 (see Quarterly Review) 
 
 (1838-9) ; Railway and 
 Shareholders, 33 
 
 Irish Routes (see Pemberton), 145 
 Italian Rys: (see Naples, 141^; Venice 
 
 1416) 
 
 Italy. Rys. (see Lardner's Eon. 1850 
 35 ; Gait, 1865), 43 
 
 TAMES, 353 
 
 James, Wm. (Portrait), 397 
 
 1024 
 
 (.^ Stratford), l'2'2e, 16Ue 
 
 James, W. H., 249 
 
 Tubular Boiler, 288, 399 
 
 Jessop, 273, 410, 357 
 
 (see Longridge). 71 
 
 (see Midland, 1833), 131 
 
 (see Sanderson), 1^1 
 
 {JM Wood), 56 
 
 Joints. Fish joints (see Permanent 
 
 Way Co. Handbook), p. 28 
 Journeys, Two Days for Third- 
 Class, 33 
 
 KENT LINES, EARLIEST 
 Central and North Kent), see 
 Gilbert, 73 
 Kilsby Tunnel, 1011, 1012 
 
 T AKE DISTRICT, 1041 
 
 Laiidmann, Engineer, ]05/i 
 Lardiier's " Simple Rules," 291, 293 
 Lecount. Peter, 409, 1014 
 Leeds, Hull and Selly, 1002 
 Lickey Engines, 405 (also Whishaw, 
 
 383) and 407 
 
 Lickey Incline, 318, 324, 407 
 Lighthouse, 348 
 Lincolnshire, North, 1039a 
 Lincolnshire (see East Lincolnshire) 
 Lines, Earliest (see Gray, 3 : Wood 
 
 56 ; Gilbert, 73 ; Bradshaw, 2370 
 Liquid Expansion, 270, 271 
 Liv. and Manch., 366, 400 
 
 Guides, 1001 
 
 Prospectus, 398 
 
 (see Sanders), U3 
 
 Loan System for Railways (see Bir- 
 mingham) (1838), 143 
 Locke, Jos. (Portrait), 358, 414 
 
 (see Brees), 69 
 
 ? gee Liverpool to Chorlton), 
 
 129* 
 Locomotion by Liquid Expansion 
 
 279, 271 
 Lo.-omotion, The First Magazine on, 
 
 251 
 Locomotion (Various), see Adams 
 
 (1839), 76 
 
30 
 
 Subject Index to the Railway Handbook. 
 
 LOCOMOTIVES (EARLY) 
 Agenoria, 397 
 Allans 319 
 Ancient, An, 307 
 Albert, 310 
 Albert, Him.. 383 
 Atlas, 1005 
 
 Baldwin's, 307 
 Bedlington, 71 
 Belle Vue, 1656 
 Beyer's 319 
 Elenkinsopp's 165a 
 Blucher, 1226 
 Brunei's, 319 
 Bury's, 310, 314-316, 317 
 
 Caledonian, 324d 
 Caledonian Ry., 314 
 Caledonian, 1002 
 Centaur, 215 
 Church'? 319 
 Comet, 70 
 Crampton's, 117 
 Crampton's, 310-314 
 Croton, 313 
 
 Dunham' #, 300, 307 
 
 Eden, 1007 
 Expansive, 307-312 
 Experiment, 165c 
 Experiment, 294 
 Experiment, 324/ 
 
 Fairbairris. 319 
 Fairlie, 118-119 
 Fell's, 117 
 Fire Fly, 324c* 
 
 Gilsland, 1005 
 
 Gooch's, 319 
 
 Great Western (A), Was., 383 
 
 Greemvich liy.,29Q 
 
 Harvey Combe, 70 
 Hawkshaw's, 3 19 
 Hawthorn's, 314 
 Hawthorn's, ill as., 383 
 Hercules, 1005 
 
 Iron Duke, 314 
 
 Jupiter, 165(/ 
 Jupiter, 324& 
 Jupiter, 324c 
 
 Kitsoris, 319 
 
 Lickey Loco., illus., 383 
 Liverpool, 310, 314 
 Locomotion, 1656 
 London and Birmingham 
 (A), 383 
 
 Lowell's, 313 
 Lowther, 1656 
 Meridian, 2370 
 Meteor 3-4c/ 
 Nelson, 1002 
 
 Nelson, 1007 
 New Jersey (A), 323 
 Norrtis's, 307 
 Morris's, 318 
 North Star, 1050 
 Northumbrian, 1-89, 209 
 Novelty, 287J 
 Novelty, iw*.,3S3 
 Novelty, 368o, 
 
 Orion, illlus., 383 
 
 Phoenix, 3246 
 Phoenix, illus., 383 
 Planet, 3246 
 Plews, 314 
 Fyracmon. 314 
 Puffing Billy, 1656 
 
 Rocket, 287 
 Rocket, 324f, 368a 
 Rocket, 1045 
 
 Samson, 324c 
 
 Sampson, 1005 
 
 Samuel's, 314 
 
 Sanspai*eil, 324/" 
 
 Sanspareil, 287 
 
 Saturn, 324rr 
 
 Sharp's, 314 
 
 Sharp's Expansive, 312 
 
 Sinclair's, 319 
 
 Snake, 319 
 
 Stanhope My., 295 
 
 Star, 324<J 
 
 Stephenson's (R.), 314, 316, 319 
 
 Stewart's, 307 
 
 Sun, 2370 
 
 Sunbeam, 2370 
 
 Thunderer, 167 
 Titan. 324<i 
 Trevethick's, 362 
 
 Victoria, Wu*. t 383 
 Victoria, 1007 
 Victory, 324c 
 Vulcan, 324t? 
 Vulcan, 318 
 
 Wellington, 1007 
 Wild Fire, 209 
 William IV., 287 
 Wrekin, 314 
 
 Locomotives, Cost of (see Nimmo),128 
 
 Cost, 371 
 
 Driving, 323 
 
 Durability (see Lardner B 
 
 Ecu.). 35 
 
Subject Index to the Railway Handbook. 
 
 31 
 
 Locomotives. Consumption of 
 Fuel, 85 
 
 Idle under Steam, 35 
 
 Early French (see 
 
 Armeiigaud, 746 
 
 Earliest Proposals for 
 
 Use of [before the Liverpool Con- 
 test] (te Gray, 8 ; Gumming, 5 ; 
 Sanders, 126; Sylvester,279 ;VVood, 
 56 ; Tredgold, 57 ; Stevenson, 67 : 
 Longridge, 71 ; Smiles, 858 ; San- 
 ders, 126 ; Canterbury, 126o. ; 
 Sanderson, 127 ; Nimmo, 128 ; Hill, 
 129 ; Greenwich, 299. 
 
 Locomotives, First Monograph on, 290 
 
 First pu b. principles.2746 
 
 Minimum Weight. 824/6 
 
 not proposed on, Newc. 
 
 and Carl. 180 ; Leeds and Selby 
 (see Hill, 129 
 Locomotiv)es not Safe at Night (tee 
 
 Hill), 129 
 
 Locomotives, Remarks on, 117, 289, 
 295, 300, 303, 310, 312, 
 313, 314, 316, 319, 324, 
 3246, c, d, / 324#, 383, 
 396, 406o, 
 
 Contest (see Wood, 59; 
 
 Lardner, 303) 
 Ditto Handbook; 287 
 
 Contest (see Longridge, 
 
 71 ; Lecouiit, 74) 
 
 Description of, 306 
 
 Early (set Wood, 56; 
 
 Lardner, 303 ; Le- 
 couut, 74) , 
 
 Ne Pius Ultra, 296 
 
 (see Roney, 117) 
 
 Objections to (see Tred- 
 gold), 57 
 
 Power, 300, 308, 324c 
 
 Power, Cost of, 189 
 
 Reversing Appar., 405 
 
 (The) Newspaper,, 1466 
 
 Too Heavy, 324</ 
 
 v. Stationary * Engines 
 
 (see Tredgold, 57 ; see 
 also Stephenson's Re- 
 port, 36866) 
 
 Weight of (see Irish Ry. 
 
 Commiss.), 142 
 
 with Rollers instead of 
 
 Wheels, 286 
 
 Works, 117 
 
 London and Birm. Ry. (Bourne's 
 
 folio), lOlla 
 
 Condon and Birm. Ry. Guides (see 
 Wyld, Freeling, Railroadiana, 
 Drake, Cornish, Roscoe, Osborne, 
 Home and Country Scenes, Ry. 
 Chronicle Chart, Coghlan (in title 
 index), or Handbook, page 60, et. 
 
 London and Birm., Works on (*M 
 Simms, 70) 
 
 and Brighton Ry., 189,. 198 
 
 and N.W.R. Scandal, 197 
 
 and N. W. R. (see Findlay J,l 22 
 
 and So. -West. Ry. (set So.- 
 
 Western) 
 and York, 1466, 408, 181 
 
 London, Chatham and Dover, Ren- 
 nie's Account of Origin. See his 
 Autobiography, 336 (p. 302) 
 
 London, Chatham and Dover, Cham- 
 ber's Account of Origin. See his 
 About Railways, 44 (p. 54J 
 
 London Rys. in 1851, map, 234 
 
 " Long " Trains, 2386 
 
 Losh, Jas. (Chairman Newc. and 
 Carl., 1825), see Newc. and Carl. 130 
 
 MANCHESTER DISTRICT 
 
 ** Bradshaw, 240 
 Manchester Enterprise, 36Stf 
 Mania Map [see Ry. Sell Map], 226 
 Manumotive Express, 57 
 Map of Grand Junction (see Grand 
 
 Junction), 208 
 Maps, 204, et. seq. 
 Marine Railways, 254 
 Materials, Strength of (see Barlow, 
 
 66 ; Booth, 62) 
 Mattalieu, 352ci 
 Meeting (Historic), 168 
 Mexico Rys., 1046 
 Midland Counties Ry. Guides (see 
 
 Tebbutt, 1030 ; Allen, 1031) 
 Midland Ry., History of, 199 
 Midland Ry. Amalgamation of 
 
 Midland Counties,North Midland, 
 
 Birm. and Derby, Birm. and 
 
 Gloucester 
 
 Midland, Origin of, 131 
 Milestones on Rys. (see Lond. and 
 
 Birm. Ry. Acts, 138) 
 Money, 369 
 Murdoch, 353 
 Murdoch (see Colburn, Adams, 114) 
 
 NARROW GAUGE (NEW), 
 415 
 Narrow Gauge (see Facts and 
 
 Opinions, 118; Fairlie,119) 
 Narrow Gauge (So. West.), 173 
 Nash, ISO 
 
 Nationalization of Irish Rys. (see 
 Landsdowne, 141 ; Bermingham 
 146) 
 
 of Railways (see Mudge, 
 
 8 ; Gait, 12, 43 ; Morrison, 28 ; 
 Laing, 24) 
 
 of Rys. (see Williams, 
 A. J.), 45 
 
 [&(,' also GOVERNMENT CONTROL 
 RAILWAYS]. 
 
32 
 
 Subject Index to the Railway Handbook. 
 
 Ne \vcas. and Carlisle Guides by 
 Brook, Scott, Mitchell, 1005 
 .... and Newc. Ry. (tee Northern 
 Year Book), 130 
 
 and North Shields Ry. (see 
 
 Nicholson), 135. 
 Norris, 318 
 
 Northern and Eastern (see Gilbert),73 
 North-Eastern Ry., 1045 
 Midland Ry., 1466 
 
 QUTRAM (SEE WOOD) 
 Owen, Daniel (Platelayer), Cover 
 
 HALMER, 353 
 
 Palmer's" Suspension Ry., 399 
 
 Palmer (see Tredgold), 57 
 
 Pambour, 406a 
 
 Panama Ry., 1044ct 
 
 Panic of 1845, 369 
 
 Parliamentary Trains, 376 
 
 Pasley, Gen., 324/ 
 
 Passengers Treatment of Third 
 
 Class (see Report, 1853), 30a 
 Patents, List of, 395 
 Patriarch of Ry. World (1864), 36Sa 
 Paxton, Sir Joseph, 363 
 Pease, 353, 357 
 Pennsylvania, 121 
 Perkins, Jacob, 277, 281, 282, 284, 
 
 285, 292 
 
 (with portrait), 
 
 274a, 397 (Vol XV.) 277 
 
 399 
 
 Permanent Way, Cost of, 156 
 
 Lardn. lUcon., 35 
 
 Permanent Way Stone Blocks (see 
 
 Nimmo, 1826), 128 
 Perth, ArbroathRy. (see Stevenson), 
 
 128a 
 
 Pictures, 165(/ 
 
 Pneumatic Locomotives, 410 
 Poetry (see Baker), 41 ; Fanshawe, 
 
 10a; "Leisure Hours," 193; 
 
 "Visions." 9 a 
 
 Portdynllaen (we Dublin and Lon- 
 don Route), 137 
 Post Office, 390 
 Post Office Mail, 1045 
 Potteries Rys. , 202 
 Permanent Way, 167 
 Pressure, High and Low, 297 
 Professors and Engineers, 396 
 Profit Limit, 374 
 
 QUAKERS LINES (seeBirm. 
 and Glouc.), 137a 
 
 RAILS, Inventor of Cast 
 Iron, 308 
 Rails (see Longridge, 71 ; Wood, 5C ; 
 
 Tredgold, 57) 
 Railway Accidents (see H. Brown, 
 
 39 ; Report, 267a ; Reports, 379) 
 Railway Accounts, Balance Sheets 
 
 ("Cooked"), see Spencer. 40; 
 
 Morgan, 45 
 
 Accounts (Income and Ex- 
 penditure) (.sec Harrison, 
 J. T.)- 45 
 
 .... Administration (see Le- 
 coui:t,74 ; Lardn er Econ.,35) 
 
 .... Association [The Gen.], 38 
 
 .... Comedy, 45a 
 
 Co.'s Particulars of Proper- 
 ty (1838), 382 
 
 .... Construction Problems in 
 1839, 76 
 
 .... Carrying Stock, 35 
 
 Co. Abuses of Power (sec 
 
 above under Nationaliza- 
 tion ; also in Handbook, 
 under Mence), 16 
 
 Co. Amalgamation (see 
 
 Watson, 18; Morrison, 
 1848, 28) 
 
 Amalgamation (gee Brown), 
 
 39 
 
 .... Amalgamation (ate Benson, 
 R., 46 ; Report, 1872, 46a) 
 
 Co.'s Liabilities for Dam- 
 ages (see Railway Carry- 
 ing), IT 
 
 .... Co.'s; Positions of at differ- 
 ent dates (>. Gait. 12, 43 ; 
 Whitehead, 31 ; " Obser- 
 vations," 382 ; Scrivenor, 
 371 ; Tuck. 369 ; By. Intel- 
 ligence, 372) 
 
 Co. s Profits (s'-e Lardner's 
 
 Ecoii.), 35 
 
 .... Dead Weight carried, 35 
 
 Employees Classified, 35 
 
 Engineering (see Brees, 69 ; 
 
 Simons, 703) 
 
 Engineers, 309 
 
 Fares (see Gait), 43 
 
 Fares (see reference under 
 
 JJabinyton), 133 
 Gradients (see Mtidge), 8 
 
 Junction Maps, 236-7 
 
 Law (1853), 878 
 
 Management (see Findlay, 
 
 122 ; Lecount, 74) 
 
 Manias (xee Quarterly Revuvr t 
 
 c , ; Go<ln:in, 7 ; Handbook , 
 p. 5 ; Morrison's "Observa- 
 tions" and his "Influence," 
 19 and 28 ; Report, Glas- 
 gow, 2S ; Evans. 27 ; Spack- 
 man, -30 ; Francis, 37) 
 
Subject Index to the Railway Handbook. 
 
 33 
 
 Railway Mania (aw Francis' Hist.), 37 
 .... Mismanagement (see Brown) 
 
 39 
 
 Novelette. 49ct 
 
 . ... Organisations of a (see 
 
 Lecoimt). 74 
 .... Overcharges, 186 
 
 Panic (see Franci 
 
 .... Panic (see Hints to Directors 
 
 [Handbook, p. 2]; Godwin, 
 
 7 ; M'Kenna, 15a ; Wat- 
 son, 18; Evans, 27 ;Spack- 
 man, 30) 
 
 .... Pioneers (see Anderson, 1 ; 
 
 Gray, 3) 
 
 .... Policeman (see Lecount], 74 
 Projects (Early) (see Gray, 
 
 8 ; Quarterly Review , 53 ) 
 .... Rates (see under National- 
 ization ; Pope, 48 ; Trans- 
 ports, 503) 
 
 Rating (*>e Ryde), 45 
 
 .... Rating (*ee peiifold, 2(5 ; 
 
 Laing, 32) 
 .... Reformers (see Gait, 12 ; 
 
 Morrison, 28 ; Troup, 21) 
 
 Rolling Stock, 45 
 
 Starting A, 377 
 
 System, Father of (James), 
 
 357 
 
 The First, 357 
 
 Railways Cast Iron (see Telford),122d 
 
 Cheap. 44 
 
 Earliest (see Stratford,122c ; 
 
 Stockton, 123 : Canter- 
 bury, l-26a ; Liverpool and 
 
 Manchester. 120) 
 .... Earliest (see TRAMWAYS) 
 .... Early Chronicle. 405 
 Early Defenders of (see 
 
 Scotsman}, 5,s 
 
 Exten tin 1837 (see Godicin),? 
 
 . . Government Control of (see 
 
 fifso Nationalization) ; 
 
 Lardner Econ. (1850), 35 ; 
 
 Report (5th Blue Book), 
 
 1853. &M 
 in 1838 (** Wyld's Map), 
 
 212 ; in 1844 (x<-c Cheffins), 
 
 224 ; in 1851 (Macaulay), 
 
 253; etc. 
 
 .... Increasing Land Values, 15(5 
 
 .... Increasing Traffic (see Irish 
 
 Railway Covnmissiou)142 
 
 .... Influence of; on Navvies 
 
 (xcc Chad wick), 20 
 
 List of, 384 
 
 (Projected, 1837), 381 
 
 Sails used on, 287 
 
 .... Suspension (m. Palmer), 55 
 
 .... Suspension, 338 
 
 Undulating Railways (see 
 
 Badnall). 00 
 
 Railway Progress, as seen in Brad- 
 shaw [Note on page 75, 
 3 tints from bottom ; the 
 11 37. &. a, id ,." is a slip 
 of the pen for " Lanca- 
 shire and Yorkshire. ' 
 and lines 12 and 13. p. 7*5, 
 should read ' York find 
 A. j\lidl(i,i<l. (now North- 
 Eastern) from Norm an - 
 ton to York appears first 
 as complete "] 
 Rastrick, 357 
 
 Rastrick (see Stratford), 122? 
 Reports. Large number of brief 
 Commissioners' Reports on vari- 
 ous Railways, folio, 179 
 Reports on Loco. v. Station , 36866 
 Remington (see Ronnie, Geo. ; Lond. 
 
 Grand Junction), 1336 
 Rennie (see Brees), 60 
 Ronnie, George (sc<; Midland Coun- 
 ties Railway), 131 
 
 Rennie, Sir John (see Brighton Rail- 
 way), 134 
 
 Resistance to Trains from Wind, 
 Amusing Suggestions (see Adauis' 
 Roads), 1839, 76 (p. 330) 
 Richmond Theatre, 1024 
 Rivalry of Companies, Military 
 
 called in, 324</ 
 Roberts, Richard. 324/ 
 Robison, 274t 
 Robison, 300 
 Roumanian Railway (1857), 161 ; 
 
 (1876), 165 
 Routes. Early proposed Trunk Line 
 
 (see Gray, 3 : Gilbert, 73) 
 Routes. (a) Anglo-Scotch Routes, 212 
 (6) Birmingham. The two 
 
 old lines, 204 
 (c) Dartmoor Railway 
 
 (1839), 216 
 
 (<Z) East coast (1839), 216 
 ('/) East Coast, 210, 212, 
 
 213, 216 
 
 (<) Fishguard Route, 210 
 (/) Herapath, 212tt 
 ((/) London and Brighton 
 
 Routes, 210,212 
 (//) Manchester and Birm- 
 ingham Extension, 
 (1839), 216 
 
 (I/) London and Chelten- 
 ham Routes, 210 
 (/') London and Dover, 212 
 (/) London and Taunton. 
 
 Routes. 210. 212 
 (/) Manchester and Rugby 
 orBirmingham Routes, 
 208, 210, 212. 210 
 (n>) Manchester Extension 
 (x' ; c Manchester and 
 Rugby) 
 
34 
 
 Subject Index to the Railway Handbook. 
 
 Routes. (/i) portdyllaen, 210,212 
 
 (o) Scotch Routes, 213 
 Russian Railways (see Lardner's 
 Econ., 1850, 35 ; Gait, 1865, 12) 
 
 OALARIES OF EARLY 
 O Engineers, 368d 
 Samuel's Locomotives, 414 
 Samuel's Steam Carriage, 158 
 
 (see Adams), 114 
 St. Lawrence Bridge, 1626 
 Scotch Railway Progress. 122, 122e?, 
 237f, 239, 241, 1033rt. 1034, 1039, 
 1044', 212-213, 221, 229, 231, 233 
 Scotch Railways, 385, 391, 415 
 
 in 1842 (seeLizar's 
 
 map), 221 
 
 (Early), (see Steven- 
 son), 128a 
 Trunk Line, 1044 
 Scotland, 356 
 
 (Earliest Time Tables). 239 
 
 (see Telford), 122c 
 
 Scotland to London in 1842, 1034 
 
 '' Scotsman," 400 
 
 Schuster (L. B. and S. Co.), 198 
 
 Season Tickets (Family), 241 
 
 Seguin, 324/ 
 
 Seymour's Act, Morrison (1848, p.19. 
 
 No. 28) 
 
 Shareholders, 197 
 Shareholders, Undue Influence 
 
 among (.see Spencer, Herbert), 40 
 Shareholding (see M'Kcnna, 15a ; 
 
 Morrison, 28 ; Gait, 12-45) 
 Sheffield and Peak Ry. (.set Sander- 
 son), 127 
 Sheffield and Eotherham Railway 
 
 Check, 394 
 Ship Canals, 325 
 Signals (.see No. 108ft. 116. 120, 405) 
 
 (see Remarks in Adams' 
 
 Roads), 76 (1839), p. 330 
 
 G.N.R, 322 
 
 Silent Railway (The), 101 ll> 
 Simons, Pierre, Medal, 394 
 Smeaton Portrait, 274 
 Smoke Consumption, (gee Lond. and 
 
 Birm. Railway Acts), 138 
 Smoking, 241 
 South-Eastern Ey. Guides, 1035 
 
 Origin of (see Troup).21 
 Works oil (see feimms), 
 
 70 
 
 South-Union Railway, 406 
 South Wales Railway, 33 
 Foutli-Western Railway, 173 
 
 Guides, 1024-5-6 (see 
 Freeling,1024;Wyld, 
 Bradshaw, Measom) 
 
 - Rating (.see Penfold), 26 
 (Salisbury and Yeovil)203 
 
 - to Exeter, 178 
 
 South-Western Railway, Work* on 
 
 (see Siinms), 70 
 Spackman, 369 
 Spain Rys. (set Lardner, 35 ; Gait, 
 
 1865. 43) 
 Speed, 9, 52, 146, 239, 280 
 
 High, cheaper than Low, 308 
 
 Impossibility of Great, 404 
 
 on Rys. (we Quar. Jieview),5, & 
 
 Speed on Railways (see Tredgold), 57 
 Speed on Rail ways. First Prophecy of 
 
 (see Young), 52 
 
 Speed, prophecies of (see Wood), 5, 59 
 Stanhope Railway (see Day) 74c 
 Station Map (1851), 233 
 State Purchase, 46, 49 
 State Purchase (see Under National!- 
 
 zation : Waring, 49 
 State Railways (Ireland), 146 
 Steam Blast. 56, 354, 359 
 Steam Carriages, 294 
 
 Dates, p. 79 ; 276, 303, 
 
 396. 399 
 
 History [Gordon, 245], 
 
 246; Hebert, 248-9; 
 Colburn : Young and 
 Holley, 252 
 
 (see Gurney, 243 ; Gor- 
 don, 246 ; Hancock, 
 250 ; Stephenson, 
 247<t ; Mechanics' 
 Magazine, Vol. XX., 
 397 
 
 (see Adams' Roads, 76 
 
 First for Passengers, 272 
 
 (Rail) 314 
 
 Reports, 244, 245rt,246. 
 
 STEAM CARRIAGB;.S : 
 (a) Edgeworth, 355 
 (6) Moore, 355 
 
 (c) Murdoch,355 
 
 (d) Robison, 355 
 
 (e) Small, 355 
 (V) Watt, 355 
 
 Steam Engine Small Manual, 305 
 Steam Evaporated per H.P., 297 
 Steam, High Pressure (.see Tredgold). 57 
 STP;AM NAVIGATION : 
 
 American, 334, et seq. 
 
 Atlantic Steamer, Ihe First, 345 
 
 Boats Compound, 337 
 
 Building, 334 
 
 Cost of steamers, 335 
 
 Clyde, 334, 335, 352 
 
 Engine Drivers v. Sailors, 344 
 
 Engine Fly-wheel Abolished, 347 
 
 Expansive Principle, 347 
 
 First Book, 334 
 
 Graham. 341 
 
 Hay, Lord John, 344 
 
 Highland Guides (Early). 34('-350 
 
 Impossibility of. 343 
 
 India. 343 
 
 Largest steamer (!>-'>) ' :;:l 
 
Subject Index to the Railway Handbook. 
 
 35 
 
 Steam Navigation continued. 
 Narrative of Inventions, 341 
 Navy, Biggest Steamer in (1838), 
 
 345 
 
 Paddle Boat, XV. century, 337 
 Propulsion, 334 
 Screw Piles, 348 
 Screw Propeller, 347 
 Steam Boat List, 337 
 Steam Boats, 9 
 Steam, Impossibility of Long 
 
 Voyages by, 286 
 Steam Navigation, 334, etseq. 
 Steam ships, 303 
 Steam Vessels, The First, in 
 
 War, 344 
 
 Subsidiary Engine Boat, 335 
 Taylor and Miller's Experiments, 
 
 341 
 
 War, First Steamer used in, 344 
 Watt, 352 
 
 EARLY STEAM SHIPS : 
 British Queen, 345 
 Charlotte Dundas. 349 
 City of Glasgow, 337 
 Clyde, 339 
 Comet, 334, 352 
 Comet, 349 
 Great Britain, 347 
 Margery, 340 
 New Jersey, 349 
 North River, 349 
 Rob Roy, 340 
 Savannah, 345 
 Shannon. 337 
 Sirius, 345 
 Soho, 337 
 
 INVENTORS : 
 
 Bell. 334, 340, 352c 
 
 Duquet, 335 
 
 Fulton, 334, 335, 340, 349, 352e 
 
 Hulls, 334. :5 
 
 Jeoffrev. -Joo 
 
 Miller,335 
 
 Symington. 335, 349. :}.>-; 
 Steam Room, Want of, 2'.io 
 Steele, John, 360 
 Stephenson, George, 324;' 
 
 357, 360, 137c 
 
 363, 364, 412a, 1003 
 
 Cottage, 1045u 
 
 Early Locomotives (see 
 
 Wood), 56 
 
 Locomotives. 282 
 
 on Eloquence, 368(2 
 
 on STEAM CARRIAGES, 
 
 247r.t ; also SMILES' 
 Lives of Enyi,> r* 
 (1862), VolIIL.p. 492 
 ei. seq. 
 
 Medal, 394 
 
 Portrait of (*-; ffiinn. 
 
 Stephenson, Macdonald, 154, 162, 163 
 Stephenson, R., 117, 360, 404, 405, 69 
 
 Portrait, 74ct, 414 
 
 Not a proper judge of 
 
 By. Plans (see Ren- 
 nie's Evidence for 
 Brighton Ry., 134^ 
 page 174 
 
 Robert, SENIOR (see 
 
 Badnall), 60 
 Stewart, Wm., 307 
 Stockton and Darlington Ry., 200 
 Stockton and Darlington, 356, 368 
 Stockton and Darlington, 392 
 Stockton and Darlington Ry. (see 
 
 Jeans ; Tredgold, 57) 
 Stockton and Darlington Ry. (see 
 
 Longridge),7l 
 
 Stratford and Moreton Ry., 357 
 Street Railway, First in Europe 
 
 (Birkenhead), 255 
 Street Railways of America, 256 ; 
 
 London, 257 
 
 Superannuation (see Brydges), 38 
 Surrey, Sussex, Hants Ry., 134 
 Suspension Rys. (see Palmer), 55 
 Symington, 353 
 
 JAFF VALE RY. (1840), 186 
 
 Telegraph, 370 
 
 Telegraph (c Lardner's Econ.), 35 
 
 Telegraph (see Jic ports'), 1840 10 
 
 Telegraph Line, single Way, 146^ 
 
 Telegraph Wires, 1020 
 
 Telegraphs, lOllc 
 
 Telegraphs (see Francis' History), 37 
 
 Telford, 357, 359 
 
 Tel ford (see Pemberton), 145 
 
 Ten per cent. Profit Limit (see Mor- 
 rison. 1848, 28 (on his pp. 20-1) 
 
 Ticket (Copper). 165t 
 
 Time Tables, The First (see Brad- 
 shaw), 237/ 
 
 Trains and Gas Light, 405 
 
 Trains Stopping Anywhere, 392 
 
 Tramways, Earliest (see choro- 
 graph ia, 5T ; North, 54) 
 
 Transport, History of Early (see 
 
 Tregellis (see Hamp. and Wilts), 140 
 
 Trevi thick, 168 
 
 Trovithick (*e colburu, Rennie, 366 ; 
 Adams, 114) 
 
 Trevithick (of Crewe). 309 
 
 Trunk Line, The Grand English,368c 
 
 Tubes. :j!6 ; Tubes (copper), 3246 ; 
 Tubes, 3246, /; Tubes, 360 ; Tubes, 
 361 
 
 Tubes, Brass, -324 (f and 6) 
 
 Tubes, Water, 414 
 
 Tunnels (*,-,. Cinil,,,, ,./- a> Il:>; Honey, 117) 
 
 Turf as Fuel (<^ Nimmo) (1826), 128 
 
36 
 
 Subject Index to the Railway Handbook. 
 
 VIADUCTS, COST OF (see 
 V Nicholson) (1835), 37 
 Viaduct (Crumlin) (x c c Mayna^llS 
 Vignoles (see Brees), (39 
 
 (see Mid. Counties Ry.),l-!:J" 
 
 (see Ronnie's Evidence for 
 
 Brighton By.), 134 
 
 Quixotic Colonnade (see 
 
 Pemberton), 145 
 
 w 
 
 IAGGONS, EARLIEST '(see 
 
 Chorographia), 51 
 Walker (see Brees), (iO 
 Ward, J. (Engine Driver), 311a, 322ft 
 Watering Stations, 10116 
 Watt. 2T2, 274c, 27-W, Infring., 272 ; 
 Portrait, 274a : oOo, 317, oola, 355 
 
 Welsh Plate Lines (see under Crosslet 
 
 122c 
 West London (ibnni'fh/ B. B. an 
 
 T. J. li.), 191, 10116 ; Works on (si 
 
 Sirnms), 70 
 Wheels, 3iH) 
 
 - with Cast-iron Tyres, 324i 
 
 - Effect of, 324c 
 Whitby and Pickering Ry., 1003 
 Whitehavei-i Hallway Medal, 394 
 Wood. Nicholas. 353 
 
 - his " ingenious toys," 1022 
 Wooden Wheels, 107 
 
 Railway, 167 
 Woolhouse, 301 
 
 ORK AND NORTH-MID- 
 
 laiid Prices, 28 
 
 Y 
 
 jEarliest 
 
 IRecorbs. 
 
 (Arranged according to date.) 
 THE GREAT RAIL QUESTION. 
 
 420 Longridge, M. SPECIFICATION of JOHN BIRKEN- 
 SHAW'S PATENT for an Improvement in the Construction 
 of MALLEABLE IRON RAILS, to be used in Rail Roads, 
 with Remarks on the Comparative Merits of CAST IRON 
 and MALLEABLE IRON T RAILWAYS, 12pp., and folding 
 plates in which the train is drawn by a horse, THE VERY 
 RARE FIRST EDITION, 21s (Walker) Newcastle, 1821 
 
 This edition does not include the correspondence. 
 NICHOLAS WOOD refers to the famous rails in his 
 work on RAILROADS, 1825 (pp. 61-2), and Smiles in 
 his life of Geo. Stephenson, small edition, 1860 (p. 132) 
 
 421 - SPECIFICATION of JOHN BIRKENSHAW'S 
 PATENT for MALLEABLE IRON RAILS, with Remarks on 
 the Comparative Merits, etc., 14pp., with the 
 Chapman-Birkenshaw Correspondence, 8pp., and the 
 folding plate in which the train is drawn by 
 Stephenson's Eng., 2ND ED. ,10s ( Walker), Newcas., 1824 
 
 422 -- 1827 EDITION, with Introduction. The 
 *' Remarks," the Correspondence, the Specification, 
 22pp., Account of Stockton and Darling. Railway, etc., 
 39pp., and Adamson on Railroads, 26pp., with 2 
 views of Bedlington Works, views at opening of 
 Stockton and Darl. Railway, Tstfd 
 
 423 -- 1838 EDITION, without Adamson's Treatise, 
 but with an Abstract of Booth's Account of Liverpool 
 and Manchester Railway, of the Great Contest, a short 
 eulogy of Locomotives, with view of the Longridge 
 Locomotive, etc., 10s6d 
 
Earliest Railway llecords. 37 
 
 THE GREAT PIONEER GRAY. 
 
 424 Gray. Thos- OBSERVATION' on a GENERAL IRON- 
 RAILWAY. 4th edition, 40s, with plates, including 
 
 Blenkinsop})'s Locomotive. 1823 
 
 With bookplate of H. A. Fletcher. A note within 
 says : BLENKINSOPP'S Engine began running on the, 
 Railway from MIDDLETON COLLIERY to LEEDS (3\ 
 miles)on 12th Aug. . IS 12, and considersG RAY'S ' ' General 
 views resemble greatly those put forth by RICHARD- 
 LOVELL EDGE WORTH, and quoted in an earlier part 
 of this work. Since his death QUEEN VICTORIA 
 y ranted pension (sic) to his Widow." 
 
 PALMER'S SUSPENSION RAILWAY. 
 
 425 Palmer's DESCRIPTION of a RAILWAY on a New 
 Principle, with two folding plates, t>0pp., 8vo, 10s6d 
 
 1823 
 GUMMING. 
 
 426 Gumming, T. G. ILLUSTRATIONS of the ORIGIN 
 and PROGRESS of RAIL and TRAM ROADS and STEAM 
 CARRIAGES, or LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES, also . 
 particulars ... of the principal railways . 
 particularly those projected between Liverpool and 
 Birmingham, and Liverpool and Manchester, with a 
 view to the more general employment of ... 
 Locomotive Engines for the Conveyance of Passengers 
 as well as Merchandise . . . tUpp., 8vo, wrappers, 
 42s Denbigh, 1824 
 
 I consider this brochure the most important of all 
 the early publications for the promotion of a railway 
 system, and, with only about one exception, it is the 
 rarest. 
 
 "SCOTSMAN" ARTICLES. 
 
 Maelaren'S '" Scotsman " Articles on Railways 
 (see Alec/tames' Magazine, Vol III.) 1825 
 
 THE GREAT BILL BEFORE THE LORDS. 
 
 427 Liverpool and Manchester Railway Bill 
 
 EVIDENCE .BEFORE the LORDS' COMMITTEE, 322pp., 
 folio, half calf, VERY SCARCE, '21s 1826 
 
 GEO RENNIE, ("HAS. VIGNOLES, JOSIAH JESSOP, 
 JAS. WOODS, and JOHN GLADSTONE (father of our 
 former Prime Minister) give Evidence. The formid- 
 able ALDEKSON is again the opposing Counsel. ALEX- 
 ANDER NIMMO and JOSEPH JESSOP saiv no difficulty 
 in running a railway over Chat Moss, " nor any 
 other Moss," which is interesting in view of Mr 
 SMILES 1 enthusiasm. 
 
38 Earliest Railway Records. 
 
 EARLIEST LOCOMOTIVE LITERATURE. 
 
 428 Rankine, David. The EFFECTS of FORCE 
 APPLIED to DRAUGHT, with illustrations ... of 
 the performance of Horses and Locomotive Engines OH 
 Railways, 76pp. ,with plate, 8 vo, bds. , Glasgow, 1 Os6d, 1 828 
 
 1 898 Very rare, as is everything of this date concerning 
 
 J.O4O locomotives, it mentions the KILLINGWORTH RAILWAY 
 
 and ROBISON (the first suggester of a locomotive to 
 
 WATT), and is of special interest as being published at 
 
 GLASGOW. 
 
 THE GREAT LOCOMOTIVE VICTORY. 
 (Locomotive versus Stationary Engine.) 
 
 429 Stephenson and Locke. OBSERVATIONS on the 
 COMPARATIVE MERITS of LOCOMOTIVE and FIXED 
 ENGINES . . with an Account of the COMPETITION 
 ... .at RAINHILL, 83pp. Liverpool, 1830 
 
 1 QQA This is the famous reply of Stephenson and Locke to 
 
 J.OOU jfe appaling suggestion to work the all-important 
 
 Liverpool and Manchester railway by fixed engines. 
 The great Locomotive Contest had taken place, the vic- 
 tory was won, bat, nevertheless, it was still important 
 for the locomotive cock to crow. 
 
 STEPHENSON ON THE GREAT RAINHILL CONTEST. 
 (" Rocket " versus " Novelty," etc.) 
 
 430 Robert Stephenson's ACCOUNT of the GREAT 
 CONTEST : STEPHENSON (Robt.) and LOCKE 
 (Joseph) OBSERVATIONS ON ... LOCOMOTIVE 
 AND FIXED ENGINES. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE 
 COMPETITION OF LOCOMOTIVES AT RAINHILL . . . 
 83pp.. royal 8vo, wrappers, VERY RARE, 2 2s [1830] 
 
 The first part is an answer ' ' at the darkest hour of 
 the locomotive " to the report of the two best practical 
 engineers of the day ( IValker and Rastrick) against 
 the use of locomotives on the Liverpool and Manchester 
 line ; and the second part is the most important pub- 
 lished account of the great Locomotive Contest. 
 
 EARLY SCOTCH PROJECT (Edinburgh to Glasgow). 
 
 431 Edinburgh to Giasgow. Grainger, Thos., 
 and Miller, John. OBSERVATIONS ON THE FORMA- 
 TION OF A RAILWAY Communication between . . . 
 EDINBURGH and GLASGOW, 10 and 4pp., and folding 
 map, 4 to, original wrappers, 30s Edin., 1830 
 
 This proposal was made the year after the success of 
 locomotives had been decided at Liverpool. It was the 
 first project ivith a chance of success, the one of 1825 
 having been decidedly premature. The Committee were 
 A. Spiers ( Elder slie); W. Hussey (Newhall) ; 
 M. Sprot (Garnkirk) ; C. Tennant (tit. Rollox) ; 
 J. Lang (Broomhill). 
 
Earliest Railway Records. 39 
 
 (L. & N.W.R.) LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER 
 RAILWAY. 
 
 432 KiPWan, Joseph. Descriptive and Historical 
 Account of the LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAIL- 
 AVAY. 32pp., with illustration of the William IV. 
 
 -jOQ-i locomotive, 7s6d Me Plum, Glasgow, 1831 
 
 This is taken mostly from the MECHANICS' MAGA- 
 ZINE, but has extra matter, besides a fuller account of 
 Ericcson's "WILLIAM IV." locomotive than in the 
 part of tJiat magazine offered for sale herein. 
 
 [L. & N.W.R.] OBJECTIONS TO RAILWAY BETWEEN 
 LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM. 
 
 433 London and Birmingham Railway. Remarks 
 on the Proposed Raihvay between BIRMINGHAM AND 
 LONDON, proving by facts and arguments that that work 
 would cost SEVEN MILLIONS AND A HALF, that it would 
 be a burden upon the trade of the country, and would 
 never pay. By INVESTIGATOR, 116pp.. 8vo, wrappers, 
 VERY RARE, 2 2s (Richardson) 1831 
 
 Clever ', trenchant, and convincing, with no little dry 
 humour, worthy of the QUARTERLY REVIEW of old. 
 This is the first of the sort to hand for over 18 months, 
 and far the most important. It is enough to convince 
 anyone that a railway between London and Birming- 
 ham could not pay. It is probably the best early 
 diatribe against railways still extant. And all original 
 protests of the kind are very scarce. 
 
 434 Capper, C. H. (Engineer). OBSERVATIONS ON 
 ' INVESTIGATOR'S" PAMPHLET RELATIVE TO RAIL- 
 WAYS, 28pp., p8vo, 10s6d (Longman) London, 1831 
 
 Stoutly denied " INVESTIGATOR'S "figures; Contest 
 had shown what locomotives could do ; the Liverpool 
 Railway Shares were at premium ; line had not ex- 
 ceeded Treasurer's estimate and, if expensive, on them 
 (the L. and M. Co.) had devolved the task of MAKING 
 
 EXPERIMENTS FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD. The 
 
 London line must cost less, and no one who had ever 
 seen the rapidity and comforts of the Liverpool Railway 
 could ever doubt that a London line will be completed. 
 
 BRADSHAW GIVES LENGTHS OF RAILWAYS. 
 
 435 Lengths and Levels to BRADSHAW'S MAPS OF 
 T poo CANALS, NAVIGABLE RIVERS AND CANALS, 35pp. ,5s 1832 
 
 1OOZ A very accurate work. Of great interest if only as shotoing 
 
 how the railways at this time were merely a part of the Great 
 Canal System, Everything was then j or goods and sloio speeds. 
 
40 Earliest Railway Records. 
 
 ~" =^-= 
 
 EARLY PROPOSED DEVON RAILWAY. 
 
 436 Bideford and Okehampton Railway. Original 
 
 Prospectus, with map (Hopkins and Sons, Engineers), 
 4pp., folio. 10s6d 1833 
 
 Capital- 87,000. Directors: Woollcombc (High 
 Sheriff), Fellowes (M.P.), Preston, Johnson, etc. 
 Proposed locomotive railway for goods and passengers, 
 claimed as a national, not a local measure. Estimated 
 receipts, 4, 598 from Lime ; 4,137 from Coal; 2, 770 
 from Culm ; 2, If! 5 from Passengers ; out of total of 
 17,395. There were to be fixe Locomotives at 700 
 each; extensions also proposed from Winkleigh to Exeter ; 
 and from Bridestone (near Okehampton) to Plymouth. 
 
 North-Eastern Railway (STOCKTON & DARLINGTON). 
 
 437 Guide to CHOFT, DARLINGTON, etc., with a 
 detailed account of the STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON 
 RAILWAY, 105pp., cr. 8vo, 7s6d Darlington, 1834 
 
 Contains an unusually good account of the opening, 
 description of line, etc. 
 
 THE GREAT SUNDAY QUESTION. 
 
 438 Sunday Railway Travelling, by "A Railway 
 
 Director," 1836, 3s6d 
 
 SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. 
 
 439 Report and Proceedings of the FIRST GENERAL 
 MEETING OF SOUTH-EASTERN (London and Dover) 
 RAILWAY, 28pp. (Signed P. St. L. Grenfell, Chairman ; 
 Edmund Halswell, Deputy-Chairman), 8vo, pink 
 wrappers, 10s6d 1836 
 
 History of Act, choice of course, connection with 
 Brighton line. Term London and Dover still part of 
 title. 
 
 GREAT-EASTERN RAILWAY. 
 
 440 Thames HAVEN DOCK AND RAILWAY, incorporated 
 by Act of Parliament, with Observations on their 
 Anticipated Advantages, 44pp., 8vo, with map, 7s6d 
 
 (Lewis), London, 1836 
 
 This was. I "believe, the first Branch of the Eastern 
 Counties (now Great Easterii) Railway, and is shown 
 in the map of the jirst Bradshaivs. 
 
 IRELAND. 
 
 441 Burgoyne's LETTER to O'CONNELL on DUBLIN 
 STEAM PACKKT Co.'s BILL, with Report of Commis- 
 sioners on the Shannon, 16pp., cr. 8vo, 7s6d 
 
 London, 1836 
 
Earliest Railway Records. 41 
 
 442 Walker, John, C.E. Two LETTERS TO MATHEW 
 1007 BARRINGTON, with map, 16pp., cr. 8vo, 7s6d 
 
 London, 1837 
 Time of the Royal Commission. 
 
 FRANCE IN 1839. 
 
 443 Carte ROUTIKRE DE FRANCE, 1839, about 28 by 
 -|QOO 24 in. . folded, 3s6d 
 
 2 his map professes to mark the "CHEMINS DE FRR " and they 
 are observable in the Netherlands but neither the ST. GERMAIN 
 nor the ORLEANS lines -Appear to have been considered worth 
 indicating. 
 
 [L. & N.W.R.] MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM 
 RAILWAY. 
 
 444 Correspondence between the Manchester and 
 Birmingham and Grand Junction Ry. Cos., 1st 
 
 1839 October, 1838, to 11th Jaimaiy, 1839, 58pp.-, 7s6d 1839 
 A part of the very curious history of We "Juggling of the 
 Potteries.'" .Explain* the reaxon for the dotted trunk line on the 
 Maps in tie jirxt Bradshaw's. 
 
 [NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY] AN OLD BRANCH. 
 
 445 Neill, Dr. Remarks on the Progress and Prospects 
 of the EDINBURGH, LEITH, and NKWHAVEN RAILWAY, 
 with an Appendix of Documents, 36pp., 8vo, sewn, 10s 
 
 Edinburgh, 1839 
 
 Salt, in his Railway Information (1850) calls this 
 the Oldest Railway in Scotland, and quotes from the 
 RAILWAY CHRONICLE, 20 May, 1848, an account 
 of its projection in 1834-5, its sanction in 
 and operations in 1839. 
 
 (Butoes. 
 
 [Arranged alphabetical under headings of the Modern Companies.] 
 
 GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN SYSTEM. 
 
 446 Warden, John. MORRISON'S GUIDE to G. and 
 
 A. Railway ; or GLASGOW AND AYR and GLASGOW 
 
 AND GREENOCK RAILWAY COMPANION, containing a 
 
 description of the Railroads, etc., 134pp. , 12mo, cloth, 
 
 lOstid (Morrison). Glasgow, 1841 
 
 Locomotives are quaintly spoken of. Reread of '"the Hiss- 
 
 ing Aionxfer," impressing anddeliyhtmg the pasxengersby making 
 
 the tram sweep along with an ornithological rapidity ! " The 
 
 frontispiece shows the Glasgoio Station. 
 
 GREAT-EASTERN RAILWAY. 
 
 448 Measom's Illustrated Guide to the GREAT-EASTERN 
 
 RAILWAY (Cambridge Line), 401pp., maps, advertise- 
 
 ment*. and copious illustrations, 5s 1865 
 
 This again illustrates as far as CAMBRIDGE, one of the oldest 
 
 English liaihray routes. His the old " Northern and Eastern" 
 
 xhoicn in the maps of the first " Jlradshan:" 
 
42 The Guides. 
 
 
 447 Measom's ILLUSTRATED GUIDE to the GREAT 
 EASTERN RAILWAY (Colchester Line), 438pp., with 
 advertisements, two maps, and copious illuttrationt, 
 5s 1865 
 
 SIR GEO. MEASOM, from whom we 7uid the pleasure of hearing 
 on the production of our " Handbook,'" furnishes here a very 
 attractive pictorial and descriptive guide, and as the G.E.R. ^tf 
 the North Continental line he shows iw the sights of the NETHER- 
 LANDS. Specially interesting as a well-illustrated guide to the 
 route ofthejamou* White JHfephant Railway. 
 
 GREAT-NORTHERN RAILWAY. 
 
 449 Measom's ILLUSTRATED GUIDE to GREAT- 
 NORTHERN RAILWAY, with map and numerous illus- 
 trations, 200pp., and 190pp. advertisements, 5s 1857 
 
 List of Officers. The, li Measomian " hint that " neither 
 smoking or dogs are alloiced " is duly inserted. The woodcut 
 illustrations of the " Great Northern " towns of this date are well, 
 worth attention. 
 
 GREAT-WESTERN RAILWAY SYSTEM. 
 [G.W.R.] Early Excursionists' Guide Book. 
 
 450 Lundie, R. S. Railway Excursionists' Handbook 
 to WINDSOR and ETON, with woodcuts and wrapper, 
 illustrated ivith railway signalmen, tunnel, bridges, 
 locomotives, etc., 51pp,, 12mo, VERY RARE, 7s6d 1851 
 
 Preface states of EXCURSION TRAINS that the merit 
 of originating this novelty belongs to the BRIGHTON 
 Railway Company. This railway guide is perhaps 
 unique in not connecting itself with any specified rail- 
 way. 
 
 G.W.R. 
 
 451 Measom's Guide to the GREAT-WESTERN RAILWAY, 
 including the Old Worcester and Wolverhampton, 
 Chester and Holyhead Line, and Islo of Man, copiously 
 illustrated, 872pp. , 5s6d Circa. 1860 
 
 GREAT-WESTERN RAILWAY. 
 
 452 Measom's ILLUSTRATED GUIDE to the GREAT- 
 WESTERN RAILWAY, with fifty illustrations, FIRST 
 EDITION, 64pp., 8vo, cloth, 10s6d [1852] 
 
 A very scarce edition, nice little mews of the rail- 
 way Stations of that date, with valuable sketches of 
 the trains, locomotives, etc., together with a short 
 historical introduction. 
 
 IRISH RAILWAYS (EARLY). 
 
 453 Irish Railway Charts. GREAT-SOUTHERN 
 AND WESTERN RAILWAY (a) Dublin to Cork and 
 Queenstown ; (b) Dublin to Tipperary and Limerick 
 2 parts, folded into post 8vo, original illustrated green 
 wrappers, 10s [Circa. 1849] 
 
Tne . Guides. 43 
 
 454 Irish Ry. Charts. Dublin to Tipperary part only, 5s 
 
 455 - -- Dublin to KilJarney, 5? 
 
 Lonrj folding charts in RAILWAY CHROVICLE style, 
 the main line and its bridge..* and viaducts in the 
 centre, with mileage marks and iH.nstrate'd itinerary by 
 the sides, surmounted by a brirf historical sketch of 
 line. 
 
 456 Midland. Great- Western Railway. Western 
 
 Highlands, Connernara. Opinions of the Press. 52pp., 
 
 with fares from English Stations. 8vo, wrapper, with 
 
 printed map of course of the railway , og [Circa. 1848] 
 
 A unique and by no means a bad type of railway 
 
 Guide, the district being described by quotations from 
 
 the daily press. 
 
 THE LONDON & NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY SYSTEM. 
 (Chester and Holyhead.) 
 
 457 Parry, Edward. RAILWAY COMPANION- from 
 CHESTER TO HOLYHEAD, including a narrative of the 
 Early and Parliamentary History of the project, account 
 of the Con way and Britannia Bridges, FIRST EDITION, 
 18mo, 154pp. and advertisements, ^sBd 1848 
 
 458 - SECOND EDITION, 158pp., and ad vts.,5s6d 1849 
 
 The C. and H. Railway was surveyed by Geo 
 Stephenson, and made by his son. An admirer^ RAIL- 
 WAY TIMKS (Ang. 3, ISoO), alluded to it as "an 
 Imperial Line," where " Chairman, Directors, and' 
 Engineers triumphed over the greatest difficulties ever 
 surmounted by human skill.'' 
 
 (L. & N.W.R.) GRAND JUNCTION. 
 
 459 Cornish. GRAND JUNCTION and LIVERPOOL AND 
 MANCHESTER Railway Companion, Second Edition, 
 172pp., ISmo, 5s 1837 
 
 (L.&N.W.R.) LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY. 
 
 460 Panorama of MANCHESTER and RAILWAY COM- 
 PANION, with 10 copperplates, maps, plans, etc., 258pp., 
 cr. 8vo, cloth, 7s6d (Everett), MANCHESTER, 1834 
 
 Devotes twenty -four pages to the LIVERPOOL and 
 MANCHESTER RAILWAY, with a short description of 
 contest and four copperplate views (same subjects as 
 the famous " COLOURED VIEWS," and a list of the 
 . first 33 locomotives of the line, with, particulars as to 
 Axle, Cylinder, Stroke, and Maker. 
 
44 The Guides. 
 
 (L. & N.W.R.) LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY 
 
 461 London and Birmingham Railway. A 
 
 HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS along the London auc 
 
 Birmingham Railway, with Fares and Time Tables, 
 
 with portions extracted from Roscoe, with $5 woodcuts, 
 
 and map, 146pp., 18mo, cloth, 5s [Circa. 1840" 
 
 P . 129 describes first-class trains, and mixed trains, and the 
 
 first, second, and third class day carnages and nif/ht carr 
 
 and the passengers 1 noU book (to register <j rumbles'). 
 
 IL. & N.W.R.] LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY 
 
 462 Moggs' BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY (and Birmingham, 
 Coventry, Warwick, and Leamington) GUIDE, including 
 Stmtford-upon-Avon, with a London and Birmingham 
 Railway Map and the Railway Time, (and Fare) Table, 
 corrected to 1 July, 1842, 18mo, yellow wrappers 
 7stid 1842 
 
 Moggs was Editor of" PATKRSON'S ROADS." All his 
 Jlailway Guides are scarce. 
 
 [L. & N.W.R.] NORTH UNION RAILWAY. 
 
 463 North Union Railway. 44pp., 12mo (title miss- 
 ing). Printed by Wilcockson and Dobson, Printers, 
 Preston, VERY RARE, 7s6d 
 
 A good little "Guide," including a History of the 
 line (Vignoles, Eng.). and an Account of its opening 
 with, a train drawn by the No. $ Engine , made by 
 Jones, Turner, and Evans, of the Viaduct Foundry, 
 Newton. This line is now leased to L. and N. W.R. 
 
 L. & N.W.R. 
 
 464 Cassell'S OFFICIAL GUIDE to London and North- 
 Western Railway, 380pp. ,illustrated^s3d, post free 188 
 
 LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. 
 
 465 [South-Western Railway.] The Channel Islands 
 
 . [with] a Complete South-Western Railway 
 
 Guide, with a map and chart, by a Twenty Years' 
 
 Resident, 112pp., cr. 8vo, cloth, 5s 1841 
 
 References to railway brief but of historic interest, 
 
 passengers are " shown " to carriages, 2nd. class is 
 
 opened at sides, there are first class trains, mixed 
 
 trains, and goods trains for passengers each with its 
 
 own speed and fare. 
 
 NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY. 
 
 468 Fraers' COMPANION for EDINBURGH and GLASGOW 
 RAILWAY, 4-pp., folio, with plans of Edinburgh and 
 Glasgow, maps of line, time and fare tables (folded into 
 neat 24mo case). An interesting relic of * ' Auld Lang 
 Syne" 10s6d Circa 1842 
 
 " The fare by luggage train is only Ss6d." 
 
The Guides. 45 
 
 LONDON, BRIGHTON, and SOUTH COAST 
 (As it was in 1845.) 
 
 466 Railway CHRONICLE TRAVELLING CHART of the 
 BRIGHTON RY. (folded into 8vo), RARE, 10s6d (Circa) 1845 
 
 One of the rarest and most interesting of the well 
 known " Charts." Gives a brief historical sketch, a litt 
 of SIGNALS, views of interior of London Bridge 
 Terminus, and interior, ivith its old engines, of 
 the historic junction of the Greenwich and Croydon 
 loith Bricklayers Arms branch hard by, an elaborate 
 Atmospheric Engine house, the Redhill Junction, the 
 old Brighton terminus, and numerous other woodcuts. 
 
 MIDLAND RAILWAY. 
 
 467 Black's IRON HIGHWAY (No. 2) from London to 
 Edinburgh, a descriptive guide to the Railway lines 
 between these cities, with maps, charts, and HINTS to 
 RAILWAY TRAVELLERS, 59pp., 12mo, 5s Edin., 1850 
 
 Before the days of Smoking Carriages, and when guide writer* 
 stilt treated the travelling public to such hints as i; Gel gour 
 Tickets," and t{ Take your Seats" "Dontleave the carriage with- 
 out the knowledge of the conductor " and many other quaint 
 warnings. 
 
 NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY. 
 
 469 Welford, Richard. HANDBOOK to the WAVERLEY 
 ROUTE of the North British Railway . . . between 
 Edinburgh and Carlisle and Edinburgh and Hexhani, 
 numerous illustrations, 86pp, , cr. 8vo, wrappers, 5s 
 
 (Circa 1863) 
 
 A well written Guide to the Scott District. Oil p. 53, the 
 histories of the Border Counties Railway, and of the Carlisle. 
 Langholm, and Hawick Railway. 
 
 SOUTH-EASTERN SYSTEM. 
 
 470 London and Greenwich Railway Guide, 
 
 8pp., with frontispiece, 12mo, wrappers, 7s6d 
 
 Hansel], 1836 
 SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. 
 
 471 Measpm'S ILLU.STKATKD GUIDE to the South- 
 Eastern, including the NoiiTH-KisNT and GREENWICH 
 LINKS, with 200 illustrations and map, 164pp., and 
 also advertisements, 5s6il Circa. 1858 
 
 Goes also to Paris alouy th? Northern of France. 
 
 THE NORTHERN RAILWAYS. 
 
 474 Sharpens ROAD BOOK for the RAIL, Eastern Divi- 
 sion, including the lines North of the Mersey, and 
 comprising Lancashire and Yorkshire, Midland, Great 
 Northern, Caledonian, North British, North Eastern, 
 Eastern Counties, 108pp., cr. 8vo, limp cloth, 5s 
 
 (Bogue), 1855 
 
46 The Guides. 
 
 
 NORTH-BRITISH & GLASGOW & SOUTH-WESTERN. 
 
 472 Lizar'S Guide to EDINBURGH. GLASGOW, PAISLEY, 
 
 GREENOCK, and AYR RAILWAYS, with Time-Tables, 
 
 pretty steel plates, map, etc., 42pp., 12mo, VERY RARE, 
 
 10s [1842] 
 
 On the GLASGOW AND AYR Railway no passengers 
 
 carried by any of the LUGGAGE TRAINS. On the 
 
 Edinburgh and Glasgow the one luggage train left each 
 
 end at 6 a.m. 
 
 I see from one of BRADSHAW'S RAILWAY COM- 
 PANIONS, for 184%i that the time table in above issue 
 corresponds to the time tables of the first year of the 
 Edinburgh and Glasgow line. 
 
 NORTH-EASTERN AND SCOTLAND. 
 
 473 Measom's Official Illustrated Guide to tha North- 
 Eastern, North-British, Edinburgh and Glasgow, 
 Scottish Central ; Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee; 
 Scottish North-Eastern, and Great North of Scotland 
 Railways, 448pp., and 233pp. advertisements of date, 
 cr. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, 5s 1861 
 
 Briefly this is a guide to the NORTH-EASTERN RAILWAY 
 district of England and all Scotland. It describes the fire towns 
 from York to Inverness ^ it penetrates west to the pretty wooded 
 retreats of the Gareloch, it enters the yrtat commercial houses of 
 Glasgow and, Newcastle, and at Edinburgh discorers a curious 
 little Tank Locornotire at TKNNANT'S. All copiously illust>-nt"f f 
 
 political 1bi6ton> of IRailwa^s. 
 
 (Nationalization, ete.) 
 
 For first suggestions of NATIONALIZATION, see MUDGE (Handbook, page 3.) 
 For NATIONALISATION of IRISH KAILWAYS, see also Railway Thru-*, 1837 : 
 
 Quarterly Review, January. 1830, all in favour; attid l/tat'hrnv JJ<iu<t..:;, 
 
 (4to Series), 1839 (p. 182). 
 
 For Works by HUDSON and STICKNEY, see under " America." 
 For first movements for Government Control, see MORRISON. 
 For advocacy of lower fares and rates, see GALT. 
 For Criticism of MORRISON, " Cato of Cornhill," see Railway Chro^i<:i>. 
 
 November 28th, 1846 ; also the Observations on titrutl's .BtlL 
 
 1ftationali3ation ot IRailwags 
 
 Considered for Ireland, 1837. 
 
 1837 Irisji Railway Commission, First Report, 1837 
 * # * 
 
 The Second Report, 1838. decided for railways in Ireland, 
 if not by private, then by State enterprise. (See 
 REPORT, Handbook, p. 40, and the capital ATLAS. 
 p. 49) 
 
The Political History of Railways. 47 
 
 IRISH RAILWAYS ivere a subject of the day on the, 
 appearance of the first weekly Railway Press 
 (see RAILWAY TIMES, Handbook, p. 125) 
 
 * * * 
 
 The poor KILKENNY RAILWAY represented Irish 
 private railway enterprise. For a Shareholder's 
 protest against State lines, see Letter to Lansdowne, 
 (Handbook, p. 39) 
 
 MR. BERMINGHAM first strongly deprecated State 
 Railways. The word "advocated" in speaking of 
 his " First Report " (Handbook, p. 40), was used in 
 error. This Report gives list ofprivatt, projects. 
 
 * * # 
 
 1839 LORD MORPETH (First Victorian Irish Secretary) intro- 
 duced a Government Bill for a loan of 2300,000. 
 The Railway Times strongly supported. Later on the 
 Bill was dropped by what the R.T. designated " 
 flagrant dereliction of duty by incapable imbeciles ' " 
 (p. 501) 
 
 * * * 
 
 PIM (Treasurer of Dublin and Kingstown Railway) had by 
 now become in favour of State lines, and hence results. 
 
 475 PIM'S LETTER TO SHAW, 16 f ,p., cr. 8vo, 7st5d i?3> 
 
 -::- * * 
 
 By 1841 MR. BERMINOHAM also favoured State lines, 
 and with his Statistical Evidence (Handbook, p. 41) he 
 praised LOUD MORPETH, and collected all evidence in 
 favour of State Railways. * 
 
 Engineering Ibistoi^ of IRailwaps, 
 
 (History of Construction.) 
 OBLIQUE ARCHES. 
 
 476 Buck, G. W. Essay on OBLIQUE ARCHKS, 44pp. ,. 
 12 plates, 4 to. cloth, 5s 1839 
 
 STEPHENSON AND THE BRITANNIA BRIDGE. 
 (The first Millionaire Engineer's most anxious work.) 
 
 477 Clark, Latimer. General Description of the 
 Britannia and Con way Tubular Bridges, illustrated, 
 40pq>., List of Subscribers and map, 7th Edition^ 
 original wrappers, 5s 1850 
 
 * And also included a Plan for Avoiding Railway Collisions, and a note 
 on PARKINS' famous Letter to GLYN. 
 
48 The Engineering History of Railways. 
 
 HISTORY. 
 
 478 [Clarke, R. Yorke.] THE RAIL, Its ORIGIN and 
 PROGRESS, with Illustrations, Anecdotes, and Engrav- 
 ings, by " PETER PROGRESS THE YOUNGER," i>0pp., 
 18mo, 7s6d 1847 
 
 DAY on PERMANENT WAY. 
 
 479 Day, James. CONSTRUCTION and FORMATION of 
 RAILROADS, 210pp., FIRST EDITION, 3s 1839 
 
 On p. 111-112 is a reference to the famous TIMBER BRIDGES 
 made l>y the Messi's. GREEN, about which we have a x/K<?tal 
 MONOGRAPH [see GREEN]. 
 
 ENGINEER'S PLAN. 
 
 480 Great Western Railway. Engineers' Diagram 
 of Cuttings and Embankments widening between 
 HAYES and WEST DRAYTON, Is6d 
 
 TIMBER BRIDGES. 
 
 481 Green. TIMBER VIADUCTS of Newcastle and N. 
 Shields Eailvvay, read before Brit. Assoc. by J. and 
 B. GREEN, Aug., 1538, with tinted illustrations of 
 OUSE BURN and WELLINGTON DEAN VIADUCTS, 12pp., 
 4to, wrappers . 10s6d Newcastle, 1839 
 
 Here 14- 000 is claimed as being saved by wooden 
 instead of stone arches. 
 
 BRITANNIA BRIDGE AGAIN. 
 
 482 Jackson, Thos. The Tourist's GUIDE to BRITAN- 
 NIA BRIDGE . . . also an Account of the CONWAY 
 BRIDGE, the Grand MENAI SUSPENSION BRIDGE . . . 
 etc,, 10th Edition, 46pp., original wrappers, 6s6d 1852 
 
 ' The Britannia Bridge cost 600,000, and the iron- 
 work alone 375,000 ; double what it would cost now. 
 JEAFFRESON. 
 
 CURVES. 
 
 483 Livingston, D. RAILWAY CURVES, 147pp., or. 
 8vo, Is9d (Spon) 1893 
 
 LIGHT RAILWAYS. 
 
 History of the Battle of the Gauges. 
 
 486 Report of the GAUGE COMMISSIONERS. 818pp. 
 
 folio, 30s 184C, 
 
 The evidence as given in Mr. Sidney's "GAUGK 
 
 EVIDENCE " (Handbook p. 24) is here in full detail. 
 
 It is all the more interesting now the battle_of the 
 
 gauges is being renewed. 
 
The Engineering History of Railways. 49 
 
 COLONIAL RAILWAYS. 
 
 487 Reports, etc. Blue Book in Copies or Extracts of 
 Correspondence on Construction of Railways in 
 CEYLON, TKINIDAD, BRITISH GUIANA, and NEW 
 BRUNSWICK, 159pp., four maps, folio, 10s6d 1847 
 
 LIGHT RAILWAYS. 
 
 488 Spooner, C. E. NARROW-GAUGE RAILWAYS, 
 128pp., many plates, 8vo, cloth, 6s6d 
 
 With full description of the famous FESTINIOG line, 
 with average gradient 1 in 92. and gauge of 2ft. (i.e 
 less than difference in width between the wide and 
 narrow gauge formerly on G. W.R. It is the old 
 Portmadoc line of 1832, and the great PIONEER LIGHT 
 RAILWAY. Oti page 69 these railways are estimated 
 to cost 9, 000 per mile, and pay 6 per cent., as against 
 15,000 and 3% per cent, for ordinarylgauge. 
 
 SIGNALS. 
 
 489 Tyers' Patent SIGNALLING BLOCK TELEGRAPHS 
 with illustrations and plans, 96pp., cr. 8vo, cloth 
 2s6d 1872 
 
 ^ Has an interesting historical introduction on Tyers 9 
 Patents. The Telegraphs are used on North- Western 
 Great- Eastern, Brighton, etc. 
 
 SUBMARINE LINE (ENGLAND TO FRANCE). 
 
 490 Walker, Wm. T. On the Construction of a 
 RAILWAY across the CHANNEL BENEATH THE SEA 
 between . . . England and France, 37pp., 8vo' 
 wrappers, 5s 1878 
 
 In the Aiding AMP and plan one line is shown deep down 1,1 
 thegrey dml.k from the South Fore/and to about 2 miles south ot 
 l-alw; another iine through a tale between Shakespeare's Cliff 
 <>/,id the South of Cap- Gris-Svz. 
 
 IReferences. 
 
 r S -~ had f Ti Ck Pape H ? atis - S 1 ""'* (Handbook, page 7, No. 20) said 
 er cent, of them could have been prevented by the telegraph. 
 
 CHATMOSS. 
 44 Impossible to carry a railway over it." Giles 
 
 AG Fr^iVHf? LJLTY f5- I 0{ ' ERCOME -- See Smiles> Life of Stepheuson; 
 
 Francis History of Railways. JAMES got nearly drowned in it 
 A IERRIBLE FLACE. " A swampy Syrtis that almost resembled that Ser- 
 
 of Locke g 1U Dalmatia that ^allowed up whole armies. "-DeWy Life 
 No DIFFICULTY AT ALL. NIMMO before Lords' Committee 182G 
 KIDICULOUS TO CALL IT IMPRACTICABLE. Rennie Autobiography 
 Impossible if traversed on an embankment." 8ee Vigiioles' Life. 
 
 Magazines. See under separate heading 
 
 PAPER RAILWAYS in Russia.-See Jfazdl'* Annual, 1886 
 
 1 KR.MAXENT WAY.~See Mahan under " American Railways " 
 
50 The Engineering History of Railway s. 
 
 PILES. Mr. WOOD declared "the whole stability or stiperiority of the 
 G.W.R. over other wooden railways depends upon THE RETAINING 
 POWER OF THE PILES, which piles, remarked the Railway Times (Sept. 
 8th, 1838, page 504), within a short month after the publication of this 
 opinion, were abandoned as the worst feature of the whole affair. 
 
 SIGNALS. See PAKSLOE Our JRailway*, 1878, page 69. 
 
 1biston> of {Telegraphs. 
 
 OLD TELEGRAPHS. 
 
 484 Maedonald, John. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICA- 
 TIONS : Naval, Military, and Political . . . 186pp., 
 8vo, boards, 15s 1808 
 
 Colonel MACDONALD suggested in 1808 a new 
 ' ' Xaval> Military, and Political " Telegraphic 
 System, substituting a speaking in lieu of a spelling 
 power. In the ivork above he explains and illustrates 
 his system, and criticises that then in vogue. 
 
 TELEGRAPHS, 
 History of Telegraphs. 
 
 484A Highton, Ed. ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH : its history 
 and progress, numerous illus., 179p., 12mo, cloth, gilt 
 edges. lOsfid '1852 
 
 Peculiar jeatur as in the different telegraphs. Men- 
 tions 34 a xt //or it ie$. 
 
 Submarine Cables. 
 
 485 Preeee, W. H. On the Maintenance and Dura- 
 bility of SUBMARINE CABLES in SHALLOW WATER (from 
 Civ. Eng. Proceed., with abstract of discussion on th 
 
 paper), 82pp., 6s 1862 
 
 flDanaaement 
 
 OF THE BRISTOL AND EXETER. 
 492 Bristol and Exeter Railway. General Regu- 
 lations for Traffic Department and for Engine-Drivers 
 and Firemen ; with Code of Signals, 12th May, 1869, 
 141pp.. 12mo, 3s6d 
 
 p. 68, Drivers and guards not to place independent reliance on 
 Hit electric telegraph. 
 
 COTSWORTH'S RAILWAY CALCULATORS. 
 
 MR. COTSWORTH has forwarded me a supply of his CAL- 
 CULATORS, now used in so many railway offices. Mr. C. tells 
 me he was formerly strongly opposed to their introduction, and 
 prided himself on his personal calculating powers. But, being 
 beaten by a mechanical process, took that process in hand, im- 
 proved it, and introduced it throughout the country 
 
 493 The prices of the best CALCULATOR is 10s6d, others 
 down to 2s6d (particulars on application) 
 
Management. 51 
 
 OLD EASTERN UNION SIGNALS. 
 
 494 Eastern-Union Railway Sisals and Regulations, 
 
 July 31st, 1848, 61pp. and Index, 3s6d 
 RATES FOR BRANCH LINES AS FEEDERS. 
 
 495 Fisher, J. OBSERVATIONS on JUDGMENT of 18th 
 February, in Queen's Bfrnch : REGINA versus S.E.R with 
 the Case and Judgment, 33pp., Svo, sewn, 10s6d 1854 
 
 Throws a curious light on the contemporary railway history 
 The S.E.R. bound themselves to pay a ridiculous rent for the 
 barren Reading branch. Dorking overseers rated pro rata 
 Ihis being disallowed, D. claimed extra rates, because of 
 the branch being A FEEDER to main line, and won the day 
 (bee also HERAPATH'S JOURNAL, 1854, p. 390-1.) 
 
 BRIGHTON COMPANY OLD REGULATIONS. 
 
 496 London, Brighton and South Coast Railway 
 
 Laws, Rules and Regulations for Officers and Servants 
 1st January, 1857, 164pp., 12mo, 5s 
 
 " On no account must stop signals be neglected through 
 any dependence upon the Electric Telegraph." p. 2. 
 
 RAILWAY LABOURERS AS WILD BEASTS. 
 The Whole Truth. 
 
 497 Papers read before Statistical Society, Manchester, on 
 DEMORALISATION and INJURIES . . . of RAILWAY LABOURERS 
 viz, by John Robertson, Robert Robinson, and Edwin Chadwick 
 [the title much abbreviated), together with Strictures on the 
 above Pamphlet by Thomas Nicholson, Contractor, 24pp cT 
 f-Vi ?^T a T Rl f RT OF COMMONS SELECT COMMITTEE* 
 entitled 'Railway Labourer* and Labourers of Public Works " 
 * ^/"L^T 011 ': a f (1 ^?*t, describing and illustrating 
 cost Irom o2 to 60, Svo, the three pamph 
 
 A compute little history of this subject (see also Handbook, 
 
 LOCAL TREATMENT OF RAILWAYS. 
 498 Railway and LAND TAXATION, showing the Origin, P 
 etc o Poor and other Rates, and their injustice with 
 to Railways, with a Digest, etc., 2s6d 
 
 PARSLOE, 1878. 
 
 499 Parsloe, Jas. OUR RAILWAYS, 29-tpp., cr. Svo, d 6s 1878 
 
 Management and operations, historical notes, history of areat 
 
 Companies, items on fares , Rates, Reform, etc., a capital 
 
52 Management. 
 
 ROBERT STEPHENSON ON THE RAILWAY SYSTEM. 
 
 500 .Stephenson, Robert. ADDRESS (on the Railway System 
 as President ol the Civil Engineers, 34pp. } 8vo, wrappers, 10s6c 
 
 January, 1856 
 
 Extent of Railways Cost Worl s Working Traffic 
 Wear and Tear Fares Post Uffice Legislation Managemen 
 Telegraph A ccidents General Results Practical Applied 
 tion. ('' l The interests of the pullic and of the Companies are 
 identical not antagonistic." p. 12. J 
 
 STRETTON, 1893. 
 
 501 Stretton, C. E. SAFE RAILWAY WORKING, numerous illus 
 trations, 230pp., 4s6d (post free) 1893 
 
 Ibiston? of Companies* 
 
 ACKWORTH, 1889. 
 
 502 Aekworth, W. M. THE RAILWAYS OF ENGLAND, illus- 
 trated, 427pp., 8vo, cloth, 12s6d 1889 
 
 A very interesting account of the present conducting and 
 operation of English Railways, arranged under the headings of 
 the leading Companies. 
 
 GREAT-EASTERN RAILWAY SYSTEM. 
 
 503 Great-Eastern System. Bill for Railways, from Norfolk 
 Railway at Thorpe St. Andrew to North Walsham, and to 
 Aylsham and Cronier, 22pp., 3s6d 1860 
 
 504 (General Powers) Ramsay, Northern and Eastern, and 
 
 Tendring Hundred Bill, 6pp., folio, Is6d 1870 
 
 505 (Metropolitan Railways, etc.) Bill, 24pp., 2s6d 1870 
 
 Ground under Liverpool Street, Hackney Doivns, Agreements with 
 Metropolitan Company. 
 
 506 Eastern Counties' TIMK TABLE of 1845 
 
 GREAT-NORTHERN RAILWAY. 
 
 507 Great-Northern System : Hertford and Welwyn Junction 
 Railway Act. 2s6d 1854 
 
 508 Luton, DUN STABLE, and WELWYN Junction Railway, ORIGINAL 
 PROSPECTUS, 4pp., folio, including map, 7s6d Circa. 1854 
 
 Hon. W. F. Cooper, Lord of the Admiralty ; Inskipp, Mayor 
 of Hertford ; Lucas, Hoiu, Jordan, Everett, Boltoii, Terraby, 
 Stormer, Tomson, Phillips, Sworder, Pledge, and Austee, all of 
 Luton, Committee ; J. C. Birkenshaw, Engineer. LUTON was 
 at this time the largest English town without a railway. 
 
 GREAT-WESTERN RA ILWAY. 
 
 509 Great-Western Railway and Brentford Railway Act fo 
 additional capital, June, 1857, Is6d 
 
 510 Amended Bill for leasing the Great- Western and 
 
 Brentford Railway to theG.W.R., 21pp., folio, 2s6d 
 511 - (West Midland Amalgamation) Act, 56pp., 5s 1863 
 
History of Companies. 53 
 
 51U BOURNE (J. C.) History and Description of the 
 Great Western Railway, with numerous views executed in 
 lithography, coloured section, geological map. etc., IN SPOT- 
 LESS CONDITION (THE FINEST COPY i HAVE EVER SEEN), folio, 
 hfcf, 3 3s 1846 
 
 Just as the "COLOURED VIEWS ON THE LIVERPOOL AND 
 MANCHESTER RAILWAY" are the most beautiful of all the early 
 railway publications, so may the work above be considered the 
 'most impressive of them. 
 
 The Great Western in its early days was almost awe inspiring 
 in its magnificence ; and everyone seemed to co-operate with the 
 great B RUN EL to play upon the admiration of the marvellous. 
 No cramped-up carriages: no cheeseparing in land or iron no 
 apprehension as to locomotive power. At far as this line 
 stretched the traffic from the world's capital should be conveyed 
 westward, not only with all the newly acquired speed, but with 
 twice the luxury of room and ease that " Puffing Billies" had 
 ever before permitted. No one then had dreamt of Yankee locos, 
 dashing up a Lickey incline. Indeed, as the above work pointed 
 out, four times the ordinary power was required to ascend an 
 incline of 1 in 75, and whatever was the case on a high road, on 
 a railway tasy inclines were practically essential. So nothing 
 worse than 1 in 660 was to trouble the engine at any point, and. 
 in fact, where there was heavy traffic, only 1 in 13%0 (or, four 
 feet in the mile}. Concede levels, and even NICHOLAS WOOD 
 considered that, on a broad gauge, if men were only rash enough 
 to put things to the stiffest test, the great race for speed could be 
 won. 
 
 This magnificent volumt of MR. J. C. BOURNE, after dealing 
 with the great mechanical facts of the day, a history of the line, 
 topography, geology, antiquities of the line-side, gives a full 
 description of the platts, which, opening with a rather puzzling 
 locomotive, shows us the fine Bristol Station Entrance Gateway, 
 ponderous bridges, royal stations, and hotels, vast cuttings, the 
 first monsters of speed in sleepy wayside stations and in tludr 
 mechanical stables, roagh-hewn tunnels, and many rural scenes 
 of extreme beauty ; together with glimpses of little- details rl-iar 
 to the eye of the engineer, and the whole as they were five years 
 after the opening of the line. 
 
 BOURNE'S HISTORY OF LOND. AND BIRM. RAILWAY. 
 (Now L. and N.W.R.) 
 
 (Handbook, p. 60) 
 
 PRESS OPINIONS. 
 
 " A more singular combination of the pictorial and the scien- 
 tific . . . cannot be easily imagined . . . The representa- 
 tion of the line during progress will perpetuate some exceedingly 
 picturesque and curious scenes." Gentleman's Magazine, Oct., 1838 
 
 "The lithographs are of the highest engineering and picturesque 
 interest, admirably executed, . . . Of the artistic spirit of the 
 lithographs we cannot speak too highly." Architectural Magazine. 
 
54 History of Companies. 
 
 "Drawings ill the first . style of lithographic art." Civil 
 Engineer. 
 
 "The swarms of excavators, with the contrivances for raising the 
 loads, the materials, scaffoldings and tackle, form striking' tcenes 
 of the mechanical-picturesque, pleasing to the eye, upon the same 
 principle that shipping and craft are so attractive. . . . The 
 effect of light down the shafts of the tunnels is capitally imitated 
 by the tinted lithography." Spectator, January 19th, 1839. 
 
 CANADA, 
 
 512 Great-Western Railway of Canada, Directors' Report, 
 
 ( January, 1857, 42pp., with large folding inap, 8vo, wrappers, 
 3s6d London, 1857 
 
 THE OLD STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON. 
 
 513 Jeans, J. S. JUBILEE MEMORIAL of the RAILWAY SYSTEM, 
 
 . a History of the STOCKTON and DAKLINGTON RAILWAY, a 
 
 : a record of its results, 315pp., 8vo, cloth, SCARCE, 10s6d 1875 
 This book comprises the history of railways as far as it is 
 connected with their birthplace. We read here of course the 
 history of the pioneer railway, and of the PEASES, JOHN 
 DixoNjHACKWOiiTH.awdSTKPHKNSON himself, while- the illus- 
 trations include the first locomotive, the first passenger railway 
 coach, and portraits of BACKHOUSE (first railway banker), of 
 PEASE, and O/STEPHENSON. 
 
 LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. 
 
 Ifine ib Wiews. 
 
 514 Views on MANCHESTER and LEEDS RAILWAY, draion on stone 
 by A. E. TAIT, with descriptive history by E. BUTTERWORTH 
 (includes 19 plates, 19 in. by 13in., executed by Day nd HagheJ, 
 3 3s (Bradshaw and Blacklock), 1845 
 
 This icorfc is decidedly rare, and for many years no copy has 
 been offered to me. 
 
 LEEDS. 
 
 515 Leeds. Exact Copy of Plan of Leeds Central Station, 
 1847, 3s6d 
 
 NORTH-BRITISH RAILWAY. 
 
 516 Copy of Addiess to Mr. HODGSON, 7sb'd 
 
 For five years before and five years after the days of ^!r. HODGSON, the 
 N.B.R. paid no dividend. He reigned from 1855 to 1867. rising to a 
 3Jj%, dividend in 1861. Below is a testimonial address signed by eight 
 directors and many others, acknowledging his wise rule, of date about 
 1865. By November. 1866, "a great battle raged in the North," and Mr. 
 HODGSON was fighting evenly matched an Investigation Committee 
 and his fellow directors. 
 [For ACCOUNT of the battle, see Herapath's Journal, 1866-67.^ 
 
 517 Ayton. Speecli of Jas. Ayton (Advocate) on the Sunday 
 Trains Question, Edinburgh and Glasgow Ry., 5th March, 1847, 
 
 . 8pp., IsGd Glasgow, 1847 
 
J History of Companies. 55 
 
 518 Sunday Railway Travelling. The History and Nature 
 
 of the Sabbath, us contained in Writings of Calvin Luther 
 
 etc., by EDIXKNSIS, 16pp., roy. 8vo, 3s6d Edinburgh 1847 
 
 A protest waiiitt " a handful of unscrupulous Sectarian* "atttmvtina 
 
 the etoUK clo.^ny oj the EDINBURGH and GLASGOW Mailu-ay on Sundays] ' 
 
 NORTH-LONDON RAILWAY. 
 
 519 North-London Railway. Additional Works at Poplar Bill 
 llpp., Is6d 186 ^ 
 
 QUEBEC. 
 
 20 Quebec and Halifax Railway. Final Report of the 
 
 Officers employed on the Survey of the Line, with the subsequent 
 Correspondence thereon, and on Public Works in Canada 73 np 
 folio, Presn. to Parliament, 1849, 10s6d 
 
 REMINISCENCES OF THE EASTERN COUNTIES RY. 
 
 521 Reminiscences of Railway Making, Rhymes, etc. 123pp 
 cr 8vo, cloth, HARE, 7&6d {5 
 
 Inspired by the White Elephant Railway (Eastern Counties 
 now part of Great Eastern). The poet its only friend. But 
 may be even yet 
 
 . . . shall ye, ye Eastern sons behold, 
 " Your present labours turnd to future gold." 
 
 SPAIN. 
 
 22 Report of Rendel and Beardmore to Directors of ROYAL NORTH 
 OF SPAIN RAILWAY, together with the brief Report of GEORUE 
 STEPHENSON, including his opinion on the best railway 
 routes between Biscay and Madrid, 28pp., 8vo, sewn, os6d 
 
 London, 1845 
 
 LARDNER reported in 1850 that only one railway had 
 then been constructed in Spain, viz., from Barcelona to Mataro 
 (18 miles), but the above connects GEORGE STEPHENSON with 
 SPAIN. 
 
 23 Report by Colonel YOLLAND to LORDS COMMITTEE of PR. 
 COUNCIL FOR TRADE on the METROPOLITAN RAILWAY SCHEMES 
 proposed by Bills, Session 1864, 27pp., folio, 2s6d 
 
 REPORT (SELECT COMMITTEE) METROPOLITAN LINES. 
 
 524 Report Of Commons Select Committee on Railway 
 Schemes (Metropolitan), with map shewing lines proposed, post- 
 poned, and allowed, 5pp., folio, 3.s6d 29th February^ 1864 
 
 SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. 
 
 525 South- Eastern Railway Co., and the READING, GUILD- 
 
 FOUD, and REIGATE Railway Co. Articles of Agreement, 29pp., 
 8vo, original clotlt,, RARE, 7s6d 184*7 
 
56 
 
 The Romance of the Bradshaiv Guides. 
 
 IRomance of tbe ftrabsbaw <5ufoes. 
 
 YEARS ago there was a claim 
 made by one GADSBY, of 
 Manchester, that he, and not 
 BRADSHAW, was the originator 
 of Rail way Guides (i.e., general 
 Time Tables), and he claimed 
 that he issued his first Guide 
 in 1839. Mr. FITZGERALD, on 
 p. 19 of the Story ofBradshaw's 
 Guide, however, shows that Mr. 
 GADSBY'S No. 1 was issued 
 January, 1840, whereas Mr. 
 BRADSHAW issued his first 
 tiny book Time Table (subse- 
 quently called The Railway 
 Companion] in October, 1839. 
 It was no doubt a slip of 
 memory, but the point lends 
 an interest to the GADSBY 
 Tables, 
 
 which are very rare. 
 
 At the time of the above 
 claim, Mr. GADSBY said that 
 BRADSHAW did not publish 
 except on a broad sheet. Now as 
 the "Railway Companions" 
 were but neat little opuscules, 
 with maps, they may have been 
 small enough for him to have 
 overlooked them. It is remark- 
 able that there was some truth 
 in the statement as to the broad 
 sheet, and that Mr. FITZGERALD 
 does not refer to the fact that 
 when Mr. BRADSHAW'S Time 
 Tables had assumed the page 
 size which they now retain, 
 
 they were made up from a broad 
 sheet which had been issued for 
 tome months previously. 
 
 Of these very rare broad sheets 
 I have had the good fortune to 
 rescue two. One was dated 
 August, 1841, but the one just 
 to hand is dated as early as 
 April, 1841, and I consider it 
 the earliest known ancestor of 
 the line of BRADSHAW of the 
 quarto shape. 
 
 If made up in book form it 
 would occupy twenty-one pages, 
 and includes the tables of thirty- 
 seven railways. It. was issued 
 by Bradshaw and Blacklock, 
 and (this copy at least) wa* 
 published by TILT aiid BOGUE, 
 of London. I value this fam- 
 ous historical sheet (April, 1841) 
 at 3 3S. (No. 525A). 
 
 Space does not admit of 
 entering with detail into the 
 history of the little "Com- 
 panions," but I may say that 
 evidence now goes to* show that 
 no "Companion" or "Time 
 Table " was issued prior to the 
 19th of OCTOBER, 1839, and I 
 have never received one later 
 than NOVEMBER, 1847. There 
 is a NOVEMBER issue of 1839 
 almost unknown. Of the early 
 issues of 1840 I have records 
 marked as follows : 
 
 OF 
 
 THE BRADSHAWS 
 
 Title. Late. 
 
 1. Time Table. 1st Mo., 1st, 1840 
 
 2. Companion. 1st Mo., 1st, 1840 
 
 3. Companion. 1st Mo., 25th, 1840 
 
 4. Time Tables. 2nd Mo., 22nd, 1840 
 
 5. Companion. 2nd Mo., 25th, 1840 
 
 6. Companion. 4th Mo., 1st, 1840 
 
 7. Companion. 7th Mo., 1st, 1840 
 
 1840. 
 
 No. 
 2 
 3 
 3 
 2 
 
 Pub. at. 
 6d. 
 Is. 
 Is. 
 6d. 
 Is. 
 Is. 
 Is. 
 
The Romance of the, Bradshaw Guides. 57 
 
 The Bradshaws of 1840. continued. 
 
 Besides which, I have recorded four issues having no mention of 
 their month or issue, all being entitled "Companions." 
 
 N<>. 8, in which the terminus of the G.W.R. is Steventon 
 No. 9* ,, ,, Farringdon Road 
 
 No. 10 ,, FARRINGDON ROA.D 
 
 No. 11 ,, ,, ,, WOOTON BASSET 
 
 THE BRADSHAWS OF 1841. 
 
 All 4 - Companions." 
 No. G. W.R. Terminus. \ Further distinctions. 
 
 1. WOOTON BASSET. Gloucester Ry., 4 trains. No Index. 
 
 2. Do. Do. 6 No Index. 
 
 3. Do. Do. 6 Index appears. 
 
 4. BRISTOL. 
 
 J. BRIDGWATKR. Gloss. Map. No separate page for G. W.R. fares 
 
 6. Do. Brighton, table appears (not in Index) 
 
 7. Do. Gloucestershire Bromsgrove, next Binriham 
 
 8. Do. Do. Lifford ,, ,, 
 
 9. Do. Croydon table p. 12, above South- Western 
 
 10. Do. On p. 27 Notice for Newc. and Sund. trains 
 
 11. Do. A blank space below Midland Counties table 
 
 12. Do. All inapt and plans at end 
 
 There are many differences in most issues, but the above points 
 of difference admit of briefest description. 
 
 In 1842 and subsequently the "Companions " grow fewer, as the 
 " Guide" was in active circulation, and I doubt whether there were 
 ever twelve issues in any year afterwards. In a future issue I 
 propose to detail all those recorded. 
 
 - [In the meantime I warn bookbuyers and the trade against 
 duplicates and incomplete copies, and that few of the 
 " Companions" are easy to collate.] 
 The following BRADSHAW'S arc now on sale : 
 
 1840 Steventon issue, 10s 
 
 (526-531) 1841 Nos. 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, and 12 (as above) 5s each 
 
 (532-535) 1842 Four separate issues 7s6d 
 
 (536-538) 1843 Three issues 8s 
 
 (539-540) 1844 Two issues 9s ,, 
 
 (541) 1845 One issue 10s ,, 
 
 If asked what interest tal, and the whole represents- 
 
 attaches to a Time Table, I say 
 that every page is as it were a 
 photograph of the early opera- 
 tions of the old British lines ; 
 every page is pregnant with old 
 railway history ; every page 
 represents, too, the early results 
 arising from the sinking of a 
 million pounds of British capi- 
 
 the best procurable evidence 
 of what then constituted our 
 PASSENGER RAILWAY SYSTEM. 
 They are but Time Tables, 
 no doubt, but they are Time 
 Tables as different to those of 
 1894 as a record of the days of 
 the Norman Conquest is to the 
 latest Court Circular. 
 
 * In No. 9 there are six notices below the Birmingham and Gloucester Table. 
 
58 The Romance of the Bradshaio Guides. 
 
 EARLY BRADSHAW RAILWAY GUIDE. 
 
 542 Bradshaw'S Monthly Railway and Steam Navigation Guide 
 for Great Britain, Ireland, and the Continent, 101pp., square 
 yellow wrappers, May, 1847, 7s6d 
 
 This is numbered 166, but is really No. 67 or thereabouts, 
 allowing for the curious number jump. The old " Companions " 
 died this year, and a Continental Bradshaiv was first published* 
 There are " Answers to Correspondents," biit no Index to 
 Stations. There is no Cornish railway t no Caledonian, no- 
 Great Northern, and no line in Wales except Taff Vale. 
 (These early copies are now almost unprocurable). 
 
 Steam Carnages. 
 
 543 Minutes of Evidence before SELECT COMMITTEE, with Pro- 
 ceedings. Ordered by Commons to be printed 25th July, 1859. 
 30pp, 5s6d 
 
 This is the Bill referred to by YOUNG in his STEAM ON COM- 
 MON ROADS (I860), p. 409. Mr. Me Adam, in his evidence 
 (p. 1) says, Up to the year 1857 he was perfectly convinced that 
 locos, could never travel upon turnpike roads. 
 
 STEAM CARRIAGES versus LOCOMOTIVES. 
 
 544 Gordon, Alex. OBSERVATIONS ADDRESSED TO THOSK INTER- 
 ESTED IN EITHER RAILWAYS OR TURNPIKE ROADS, shewing the 
 comparative expedition, safety, convenience, and public and 
 private economy of these two kinds of road for internal commu- 
 nication. 31pp., ci\ 8vo. , VERY RARE, 15s 1837 
 
 Shelving that even in 1837 eight years after the great conies* 
 Locomotive Railways were not absolutely safe against being 
 superseded by Steam Carriages. HERAPATH held out for rail' 
 ways, but spoke of this at the best account of steam on common 
 roads and admired the account of locomotive boilers. See HERA- 
 PATH'S MAG., vol. II. (1836) p. 276. 
 
 locomotives ant) otber ngfne9 
 
 "THE GREAT-WESTERN." 
 
 545 Account of Experimental Trip OF THE "GREAT WEST 
 
 ERN," NEW LOCOMOTIVB PASSENGER ENGINE, made oil the 
 
 13th June, 1846. [Extracted from the Morning Herald, 15th 
 June. [ 16pp., sewn, 7s6d 1846. 
 
 SIR DANIEL GOOCH'S " Ultimatum of the Broad Guage,'* 
 79 miles an hour (see Stretton, 79 80j 
 
Locomotives and other Engines. 59 
 
 JOHN ERICSSON. 
 
 (Almost Winner of the Great Locomotive Contest ; Inventor of the Screw 
 Propeller ; Builder of the Monitor.) 
 
 546 Calorie Engine [Description of] invented by J. Ericsson, 
 14pp. and frontispiece, dated London, 2nd December, 1833 r 
 
 VERY RARE, 10s6d 
 
 An attempt to supersede Steam. 
 
 See also Mechanics Mazagine, vol. XX (1834), for further 
 description, bv Eriscson, of this Engine ; and Church's Life of E 
 (Hbk. p. 111.) 
 
 AN INTERESTING NOTE BOOK. 
 
 547 Engineers' MS. Note Book, giving dimensions iii great 
 detail of eleven Locomotives on English and Continental Rail- 
 ways about the year 1843. 12mo, red calf, 5s 
 
 The name " JOHN B. PALMEU, Newcastle -on- Tym, 1S4&" 
 written within. 
 
 FAREY ON THE STEAM ENGINE. 
 
 548 Farey, John. TRKATISE ON THE STEAM ENGINE, historical, 
 practical, and descriptive, 728pp., 25 plates, 4to.. boards, 12s6d 
 (pub. 5 5), 1827 
 
 " Mr. Farcy's knowledge relating to patents was almost tm- 
 rivalled for extent and accuracy. The above book was his 
 principal work, and is regarded as of high authority, especially 
 .. on historical 2wints." Imp. Diet. Biog. 
 
 BOILERS. 
 
 549 Franklin Institute Report on the Strength of Materials 
 for Steam Boilers, 254pp., royal 8vo, 5s Philadelphia, 1837 
 
 DRAWINGS. 
 
 550 Lithograph Drawings of (a) Curtis' Safety Railway 
 Carriage, 1840, 2/6. 
 
 551 (b) SHARP, ROBERT, Passenger Loco- 
 motive, '' Atlas," 3s6d 
 
 EARLY LOCOMOTIVES. 
 
 552 Locomotives and LOCOMOTIVE BUILDING, including th 
 Origin and Growth of Rogers' Locomotive Works (1831 to 1876) 
 with numerous photographic plates, wood-cuts of old locos., &C- 
 149pp., Imp. 8ro., cl., 10/- New York, 1876. 
 
 ROGERS' KITCHIM ami GUOSVENOK. made their first loco., 
 Sanditsky, in October, 1837. It and thtir later locos, are here 
 described and illustrated as well as Murdoch's model, the 
 ''Rocket," the " Stourbridge Lion,}' the "Best Friend." 1831 ; 
 the "Tom Thumb," the " South Carolina," the "J)c Witt 
 Clinton," 1831, and the bogie loco., "Essex" 1838. 
 
60 Locomotives and other Engines. 
 
 STEPHENSON'S LOCO., 1838, 
 
 553 Marshall, W. P. Description of the Patent Locomotive 
 Steam Engine of Messrs. Stephenson & Co. [built for Cubitti, in 
 1836], with four plattt and numerous woodcuts. Revised by 
 ROBERT STEPHENSON, 67pp., 4 to., cloth, VERY RARE, 25s 1838. 
 
 Probably the most important, longest, and most complete des- 
 cription of a locomotive ever written. 
 
 MILNE. 
 
 554 Milne John. PRACTICAL VIEW of the Steam Engine (written 
 both in French and English), 175pp., 8vo., boards. 7s6d 1830 
 
 555 Pambour, Chev. G. de. A NEW THEORY of the Steam 
 Engine, 58pp., 8vo, wrappers, FIRST EDITION, 5s 
 
 London, 1838 
 LOCOMOTIVES IN WAR. 
 
 556 Pittinger, Rev. Wm. CAPTURING a LOCOMOTIVE : a 
 History of Secret Service in the late War. Illustrated. 354pp. 
 er. 8vo, cloth, 10s Philadelphia, 1888 
 
 An extraordinary account of Locomotives and Railways in 
 the great American Civil War. 
 
 ENGINES, ATMOS. RY., TELEG., SCREWS. 
 
 557 Portwine, Edward. THE STEAM ENGINE from earliest 
 times. Atmospheric Railways, Telegraph, and Screw Propeller. 
 Illustrated. 144pp., 18mo. cloth, 3s6d 1847 
 
 A neat interesting little book. It held Mr. PETER CLARKE 
 of the Brighton line up to exf.cration for his wage reductions, <' 
 
 ENGLAND'S CLAIM TO INVENTION OF STEAM ENGINE.' 
 
 558 Partington, C. F. The CENTURY of INVENTIONS of th 
 MARQUIS ot WORCESTER, with historical and explanatory notes 
 and a biographical memoir. 138pp. 12mo, boards, 5s6d 
 
 Murray, 1825 
 A SCARCE WORK ON LOCOMOTIVES. 
 
 559 Students' Guide to the LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE : being a 
 description of the different modes of constructing locomotives, 
 detail* of the component parts, and the nature of their employ- 
 ment. Illustrated by 72 copper-plates. 142pp., 8vo, VERY 
 BARE, 10s6d (Williams) London, 1849 
 
 Principally a translation from the French of Flachat and 
 Petiet, includes illustrations of locos, by Bury, Taylor, Fenton, 
 Murray, and Stephenson. 
 
 STEAM ENGINE. 
 
 560 Teonpleton, W. INCITEMENTS to STUDIES of Steam and 
 the Steam Engine. 38pp., 18mo, limp cloth, RARE. 3s6d 1848 
 
 CURIOSITY. 
 
 561 Walmsley (Wood Engraver). Prospectus, with illustrations 
 of the (so-called) first Locomotive and first Steamboat. Is6d 
 
Steam Navigation. 
 
 61 
 
 Htmospberic 
 
 562 Kingsley, Lieut. Jefferies, INVENTION, WATIR, INSTEAD 
 of COAL, the IMPELLING POWER, the Steam Engine superseded. 
 Applicable to Water Supply, Pumping, also for short Atmos- 
 pheric Railways. A wry curious 8pp. pamphlet, closely printed 
 3s6d 1857 
 
 563 Samuda, J. de A. A TREATISE on the ADAPTATION of the 
 ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE to the PURPOSE of LOCOMOTION on 
 Railways, with two plates. 50pp., 8vo, sewn, 10s6d 1841 
 
 The second report of the operations of CLEGG- and SAMUDA'S 
 system on " The Silent Railway." 
 
 Steam 
 
 EARLY WAR STEAMERS (1837). 
 
 564 Burt, Capt. NARRATIVE of a LATE STEAM VOYAGE from 
 ENGLAND to INDIA, via the Mediterranean, in 1837. A RARE 
 and VALUABLE PAMPHLET, 125pp., 8vo., calf, 10s. 6d. 
 
 Calcutta, 1840 
 
 On p. 23 compares H.M. steamers, " Tagus," " Volcano," 
 and "Firefly" with those of the India Company. The author 
 says these vessels mounted two guns, twelve pounders. The 
 India Co.'s War Steamer, "Hugh Lindsey," had four guns. 
 
 JAMES WATT. 
 
 565 Cleland, James. HISTORICAL ACCOUNT of the STEAM 
 ENGINE and its application in propelling vessels . . . (etc ) 
 70pp., 8ro, 10s6d 1 82 5 
 
 Gives a list of all the steam engines of Glasgow *nd district 
 with their owners, and of all the steamboats on the Clyde, 
 account of Hit relations between Bell and Fulton, speeches of 
 Lord Liverpool, Davy, Boulton, Huskisson, Peel, Wedge wood, 
 and many others on the work of Watt. 
 
62 Steam Navigation. 
 
 SAMUEL HALL, OF BASFORD. 
 
 MP. Geo. Robt. Stephenson, at the STEPHENSON CENTENARY, 
 after referring to the early opposition and hardships encountered, 
 said, that " whilst GEO. STEPHKNSON'S mind and energies were 
 devoted to the advancement of Railway Engineering, and the 
 improvement of the locomotive . . . other great minds 
 were at work in designing and improving 
 
 THE MARINE ENGINE, 
 
 And among the men who stand out most prominently in connec- 
 tion with this work he might mention the names of BELL and 
 HALL. I nover think of HALL'S name without sorrow. He was 
 unable to cope with the opposition which was brought to bear 
 against him. His engines were condemned, taken out of the 
 ships, and cast aside as useless ; and yet, the principle of 
 HALL'S MARINE ENGINES, designed about forty-five years 
 ago (it was in 1835) is at the present moment 
 
 THE ONLY KNOWN INVENTION 
 
 *' that ENABLES STEAMSHIPS TO TRAVERSE OCEANS, and Oceans 
 ould not hav been traversed without his principles being 
 adopted. His invention enables us to distil salt water to serve 
 our marine boilers, and he has saved this country millions of 
 tons of coal, yet he was never rewarded or recognised." (From 
 Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, June llth, 1881.) 
 
 For a further mention ot Hall (Samuel Hall, of Basford), see also 
 the review of ALDHRSON'S Essay on Steam in Mechanics Magazine, 
 (1834), Vol. XXL, p. 222 , Vol. XXVIII. (1838), etc. ; LARDNER 
 on Steam Engine, 5th Ed., 1835. 
 
 # # # 
 
 In the Collection of Papers on Steamboats, in Hand-book, p. 103, 
 No. 341, there is (1) an illustrated description of HALL'S 
 IMPROVEMENTS, with testimonials. (tylS.A.'LL' & Address to the British 
 Association, complaining of Dr. LARDNER' s injustice. (3) HALL'* 
 Address to Chairman of Commons Select Committee on Steam 
 Communication with India. 
 
 [Hall was also the first to succeed in using raw coal in locos, (see 
 COLBUUN" Loco. Engineering, p. 92.)] 
 
 566 Pritielp, G. A. An ACCOUNT of STEAM VESSELS, and of 
 
 Proceedings connected with Steam Navigation in British India. 
 
 104pp., with plates, appendices, and a capital frontispiece etching 
 
 showing "TiiE ENTERPRIZE" coming to moorings. 4to, boards, 
 
 FINE COPY. 25s Calcutta, 1830 
 
 The first record of the First Seven Years of Steam Navigation 
 
 in India. 
 
Financial History. 
 
 VERY EARLY WORK ON STEAM ENGINE (1818). 
 
 566A Dotid, Geo. STEAM ENGINES AND STEAM PACKETS. 
 
 [Historical Dissertation ; Reports and Evidence in full of the 
 
 Commons Select Committee, together with reports on Safe and 
 
 Unsafe Engines ; and particulars of the four boiler explosions, 
 
 and a narrative of Weld's Voyage from Glasgow to Dublin and 
 
 London (with two plates, and possibly two others missing! 
 
 280pp. , 8vo, boards, 21s jgjg 
 
 This ivork is the second earliest extensive account of stem, 
 
 vessels that I have yet met with. If its historical dissertation 
 
 had been more extensive, it might have been reckoned as one of 
 
 the earliest histories of the steam engine. It has 2opp. histori- 
 
 cal, 109pp. Report of Select Committee, 50pp. Observations on, 
 
 ditto, and 28pp. on ike ' k Voyage " [as it is quaintly called]. 
 
 ^financial Ibistorp. 
 
 The Original Capital of the Stockton and Darlington Railway was 170 000 
 'The Capital of the North-Eastern Railway (grown out of the S. & D. was in. 
 
 The Capital of the London and North Western Railway (1895,) is 100 000 000 
 The Capital invested in the Railways of Great Britain is 1000,000 000 
 The Total Capital of the United Kingdom is said to be 10,000 000 000 
 The Stockton and Darlington Railway, in 1830, earned 413 in' twelve months 
 The North Eastern Railway in 1881* earned 413 every 2^ hours. 
 
 BRAZIL. THE FIRST RAILWAYS. 
 
 [The first Brailian line was opened 21st April, 1854.] 
 
 567 The ORIGINAL PROSPECTUS of RECIFE and SAO FRANCISCO 
 PERNAMBUCO RAILWAY COMPANY. (Benson, chairman ; Borth- 
 wick, Engineer). A little damaged, 7s6d Circa. 1855 
 
 568 RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, January 7th, 1859, with financial 
 particulars announcing disagreement with the De Mornays, the 
 
 first section was opened 9th February, 1858, etc, 5s. 
 
 569 Hadfteld'S ACCOUNT of BRAZIL, including an account of the 
 above Railway, and a Map shewing its course ; also a mention of 
 the De Mornays and Borthwick, the engineer. 384pp., 8vo., 
 illustrated (including portrait of the Emperor, only' lately 
 dethroned), 10s. 1854 
 
 570 Cheffin'S Map of English and Scotch Railways, 1847 Edition 
 3s6d 
 
 On these maps there are members to all the high roads. These appear to 
 lv the distances between the villages given to keep up with the railway 
 projetfwe spirit of the times. Broad gauge railways in operation are 
 distmguiithed from ordinary gauge. 
 
 * Sir J. L. Bell's estimate. 
 (The jirsf Brazilian Line was opened 21st, April, 1854.) 
 
64 Financial History. 
 
 "FACTS, FAILURES AND FRAUDS." 
 
 571 Evans D. Morier. FACTS, FAILURES, and FRAUDS, cr. 8vo, 
 5s. 1859 
 
 Mr. Hudson (67 pp.); Great Northern Raihvay Redpath 
 Frauds, 50pp. ; Bullion Robbery on South Eastern Railway, 
 llpp. ; etc., etc. Full of amazing information. 
 
 RAILWAY FINANCE, 1879-80. 
 
 572 Fleming, Win. The INDEX to Oun RAILWAY SYSTEM, and 
 our Leading Lines, an Analysis of Railway Property. 1879-80. 
 A hand-book for Shareholders. 116pp., royal 8vo., 3s6d 
 
 SPECIMEN OF AN 1845 MANIA SHARE APPLICATION. 
 
 573 Form Of Application for 200 Shares of 25 each, filled in 
 by a Manchester Solicitor at the time the great mania of 1845 
 was at its height (29th August). 2s6d 
 
 GREAT-EASTERN RAILWAY SYSTEM. 
 (Colne Valley Line). 
 
 574 Colne Valley and HALSTEAD Railway Company's Reports. 
 February and August. '61 ; August, '62 ; February, '63 ; August, 
 78 ; February and August, '68. The seyen papers, 5s. 
 
 This little Company, incorporated in 1858, tried in 1861 to extend to Col- 
 chester and Cambridge and thus connect the ports of Colchester and 
 Harwich with Birmingham and Liverpool, but in ma Icing the attempt 
 got half su-alloieed up by renowned WHITE ELEPHANT. 
 
 [G.E.R.] THE OLD " EASTERN COUNTIES." 
 
 575 Smith, Arthur. The EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY, viewed 
 as an investment. 24pp., 10s6d 1847 
 
 A brief and lucid historical financial sketch, shewing from 
 the official accounts from January, '4$, to July, '4'?, 35,000,000 
 embarked, and dividends ought to average not 4 P* r cent. , but ^ 
 per cent. The crash came next year. 
 
 [G.E.R.] EASTERN COUNTIES. 
 
 576 Eastern Counties Railway. REPORT of DIRECTORS to 
 Twenty-sixth Half- Yearly Meeting. 31st August, 1849 (E.L. 
 Betts, chairman). 5s. 
 
 Of great interest as the first Ordinary Report after the Hudson 
 crisis. The Capital account was to be closed, and Directors had. 
 undertaken that (for the first time} the profits, assets, and lia- 
 bilities should be clearly shown. 
 
Financial History. 65 
 
 IG.E.R.] A QUARTER OF A MILLION A MILE FOR A 
 ROPE RAILWAY. 
 
 -577 London and Blaekwall RAILWAY REPORTS, February, 
 1847; August, 1848 ; August, 1850. Three Reports. VERY 
 RARE. 7stid 
 
 Tke Blaekwall Railway was first known as the Commercial, 
 In the mania of 1836, it was going to destroy the London Dock* 
 and have the East India House for a Station. (See Francis, 
 vol. /., 293. In 1847 it had cost 287,6 78 per mile to make ; 
 (even the Groydon had cost only 80,000, and the Birmingham 
 38,000^, and had only returned 1\ per cent, on outlay. 
 The Report (February, 1847J was claimed as " The most 
 satisfactory presented since the opening of the lint." They 
 needed 27,000 to pay a Five per wnt. dividend, and had 
 .9,638 to pay it with (and both ropes broken!) The L. and 
 B. is now one of the legs of the Great White Elephant. 
 
 [G.E.R.] NORFOLK LINE. 
 
 578 Norfolk Railway and the "White Elephant" (Eastern 
 Counties). Eighteen Reports, Notices, etc., of the Norfolk 
 Railway, between 1845 and 1862. 10s 
 
 The NORFOLK, in 1848, was the 17 'th railway of the United 
 Kingdom in size, and the present accounts show some of the 
 curiosities in its finance. Its boldest Major once hinted at cooked 
 accounts, but all seemed rosy till the Elephant got it by " A 
 mongrel agreement:' A half per cent, dividend followed, awl 
 by August, 1850, when they expected 118,496/rom the White 
 Elephant, the latter claimed 141,4 48/r0m them. Difference* 
 259, 944 // 
 
 GREAT-WESTERN RAILWAY.-1848 to 1851. 
 
 579 Great Western RAILWAY REPORTS, 1848 to 1850, for the 
 following Half-yearly Meetings : 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st, 
 32nd } 33rd, 34th, and a MS. Report, August, 1843 ; with 
 Statement of Accounts, June and December, 1848 ; June and 
 December, 1849 ; June and December, 1850 ; June and December, 
 1851. The 18 Papers, 15s 
 
 The G. W.R. paid, in 1848, 6 10s ; in 1849 and 150, 
 4 ; and in 1851, 4 10s 
 
 An Atmospheric Railway. 
 
 580 G.W.R., SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY ; Seventh half-yearly Report, 
 August, 1847 ; Ninth half-yearly Report, to June, 1848 ; Report, 
 Tenth half-yearly Meeting ; Capital and Revenue Accounts to 
 Dec., 1848 ; Report and two editions of Accounts, to 30th June, 
 1849; Official Assignee's Statement (23pp.), Aug. 27th, 1849; 
 Report for 1849 ; Proceedings, Tenth half-yearly Meeting, Feb- 
 ruary, 1850 ; Directors Report to June, 1850 , Requisition for 
 Special Meeting, 28th, August, 1850 ; Proceedings, Special Meet- 
 ing (Exeter) 12th Nov., 1850 ; Directors Report and Accounts 
 to 30th June, 1863. THE THIRTEEN PAPERS, 20s 
 
 This was a line on which the Atmospheric System was tried, 
 and -351,000 lost (Assignee's Report). 
 
66 Financial History. 
 
 G.W.R. in 1848. 
 
 585 Railways as they really are ; or, Facts for Serious Consider 
 ation of Railway Proprietors. 
 
 No. 5. The GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY and all BROAD 
 GAUGE LINES. 83pp., 8vo., sewn, 21s. 1848 
 
 No less than TWENTY- FIVE Broad Gauge Companies dealt 
 with. Gives the names of the Directors of G. W.R. and the 
 amounts they signed for in the speculating years 1844-5 
 (RUSSELL, 155,000 : SIMMONDS, 271,250; BARLOW, 620786. 
 etc.) Shoivs the Company, during 5^ years, had required 
 4,595,929 to gain 4,626,665 ! (and yet it was paying 8 per 
 cent, dividend). 
 
 G.W.R., 1849. 
 
 581 Report of COMMITTEE of CONSULTATION September 20th 
 
 1849. 20pp. 5s. 
 
 G.W.R. , 1850. 
 
 582 Great Western Railway. Notice of Special Meeting, for 
 25th April, 1850, to raise further Capital and consider further ques- 
 tions arising from CONSULTATION COMMITTEE. 4pp. folio, 
 closely printed. 7s6d 1850 
 
 Long and ruinous contests and a vital struggle for territory 
 had demolished 8 per cent, or 6 per cent, dividends, and jive 
 years of 4 per cent, had arrived. The proposal here is to spend 
 Three-and-a-half Millions for completing lines and reduce 
 salaries to extent mentioned (with strong protests against tht 
 principle. (See Herapaths Journal and Railway Times.) 
 
 G.W.R., 1850-51. 
 
 583 Notice for Special Meeting, 28th November, 1850 
 
 over Terms and Conditions of LEASE of SOUTH WALES COMPANY. 
 Folio. 3s6d 
 
 584 Notices for Special Meeting, 15th April, 1851. to 
 
 RATIFY AGREEMKNT of 29th March, with SOUTH WALES RAIL- 
 WAY (an epitome of which agreement is appended). 4to. 3s6d 
 
 GREAT-WESTERN OF CANADA, 1856. 
 
 586 Great Western Railway of Canada. Directors' Report 
 
 July, 1856. 56pp., 8vo, sewn, Is6d London. 1856 
 
 587 Proceedings at General Meeting, Lo.ndon, October, 
 
 1850. llpp., Is6d 
 
 EXTENT OF SCOTCH AND IRISH SYSTEMS, 1858. 
 
 588 " Illustrated Times'" Map of Scotland and Ireland, 1858.. 
 Is6d 
 
Financial History. 67 
 
 LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. 
 
 589 Railways as they really are. No. 7. LANCASHIRE and 
 YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. By Smith. Second Edition. 40pp., 
 10s6d 1847 
 
 Fourteen of the directors have been signing contracts for nearly 
 Three Millions. The L. and Y. shares, which, at the market 
 prices, September, 1S41, were worth 5.290,672, are now (Sept., 
 1847) worth 1,687.790. Why so many shares, issued 1845-6, 
 when so few calls on former shares; why poor raihvays bough 
 at premiums or guaranteed. 
 
 LONDON AND BRIGHTON, 1847-9. 
 
 590 Statistics of Railways. By JOSEPH MILLER. No. 2. 
 LONDON and CROYDON Revenue and Capital Accounts, from 
 1835 to its amalgamation with BRIGHTON line. 4to, wrap- 
 per, 1848 ; No. 3, London, Brighton, and South Coast (last 
 leaf missing) 1849 ; also, an earlier edition for London and 
 Brighton (title missing), 1847. osGd 
 
 LONDON AND BRIGHTON, 1890. 
 
 591 London, Brighton, and South Coast Report and Accounts, 
 June, 1890. Is 
 
 LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN, 1848. 
 
 592 L. and N.W.R. Appendix to Second Edition of The 
 Battle of the Age, by ARTHUR SMITH. Appendix, No. 1. 
 THE LONDON and NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. 13pp. and 
 three folding tables. 5s 1848 
 
 Either it (the L. <& JV. W. R.) has required more money to 
 be expended on it than it gains, or sums used for dividends have 
 been credited to capital account. 
 
 DAILY RAILWAY PRICES, 1846-7. 
 
 593 London Stock Exchange. A collection of NINETY-FOUR 
 DAILY RAILWAY SHARE LISTS, between November 27th, 1846, 
 and November, 3rd, 1847. VERY RARE-. 10s6d 
 
 Nov. 27th to Dec. 28th, 15 ; Jan. 6th to April 28th, 15 ; 
 April 29th to August 23rd, 30 ; Aug. 24th to Nov., 1847, 34. 
 TOTAL, 94. 
 
 RAILWAY FINANCE, 1837. 
 
 594 Mudge, R. M. Observations on Railways. 10s. 1837 
 
 This is the first work on Railway Finance. (See also Hand- 
 book) 
 
 FINANCE OF NORTHERN LINES, 1838. 
 
 595 Observations on PRINCIPAL RAILWAYS (chiefly North of 
 England and Scotch Railways), with coloured Maps, 64pp. 
 8vo, cloth. 5s6d 1838 
 
 This work on the companies now forming the Midland, the 
 North Eastern, L. & N. W., some Scotch lines, is the first 
 history of the companies, and the first work on the Finance of 
 individual companies. (See also Handbook.) 
 

 68 Financial History. 
 
 COMPANIES CAPITAL AND EXPENDITURE, 1869. 
 
 96 Returns. Board of Trade Returns, shewing Capital and 
 Loans of each Railway Company, 31st December, 1869 ; also 
 Traffic Returns, Working Expenditure, Rolling Stock, etc., for 
 1869. 94pp, folio, 3s6d 1870 
 
 COMPANY STOCK AND SHARES, 1849. 
 
 597 Scrivener, H. The Railways of the United Kingdom. 
 (Hbk. p. H7). 8vo, cloth, 7s6d 1849 
 
 STOCKS AND SHARES, 1849-50. 
 
 598 Slaughter, M. (Secretary, Railways Department) RAILWAY 
 INTELLIGENCE (published under author, ot Stock Exchange), 
 No. 2, 40pp., for half-year ending 30th March, 1850. (Hbk. 
 p. 117.) 4 to, original wrappers, 5s 
 
 MR. SMILES AS A FINANCIER. 
 
 599 Smiles, Samuel. (Biographer, then Secretary Leeds and 
 Thirsk Railway). RAILWAY PROPERTY : its Condition and 
 Prospects. 64pp., 7s6d 1849 
 
 600 SECOND EDITION, with cuttings pasted on, and other 
 
 economical Pamphlets, including MURDOCK on the Game Laws 
 (1851) and MACGILL on Rent No Robbery, 1851. 15s 
 
 Mr. Smiles tried consolation at the dawn of the Hudson crisis. 
 He did not believe in " broad-cloth third-class passengers, or long 
 boiler engines." HEUAPATH considered feio productions equal 
 to it in value, and spoke of the numerous and important facts 
 recorded. (Vide Herepattis Journal, 1849, p. 105). 
 
 DIVIDENDS OUT OF CAPITAL, 1848. 
 
 601 Smith, Arthur. THE BUBBLE OF THE AGE ; or, the Falla- 
 cies of Railway Investments. 63pp., 8vo, stwn, 6s 1848 
 
 The author had as bad an idea of railway directors as 
 HERBERT SPENCER fsee Railway Morals). He refers to the 
 curious Hudson guarantees of 10 per cent, to discounted lines, 
 paying dividends out of capital, tackles the L. &N. W.R. fully, 
 and considers everything connected with the Lancashire and 
 Yorkshire deplorable; refers also to G.W.R., L. & S.W.R., 
 Brighton, S.E.R., Eastern Counties, and Yorkshire Lines. 
 
 SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY, 1845-6. 
 
 602 Sfcuth Eastern Railway. GENERAL STATEMENT of the 
 POSITION and PROJECTS of the Company. 1845-6, 45pp., 4s 
 
 Contains a history of this line, and proposals for West End terminus ; 
 (tranches from Dvptford Creek to near Canterbury, also to Sheerness and 
 faversham Creek and to Maidstone, Ashj'ord, and Tanbridge. Parlia. 
 ment and the public forced on the Company the course of their trunk 
 line from which to make branches. Was it fair to allw a North 
 Kent Line? 
 
Financial History. 69 
 
 S.E.R., 1847. 
 
 603 Railways as they are. By Arthur Smith. No. 2. The 
 
 DOVER or SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY, 44pp., 8vo, sewn, 
 
 10s6d 1347 
 
 Brings a very heavy charge against all Railway Directors, 
 
 and as regards the S. E. R.. says that their present capital of 
 
 7,875.000, represents but 2,768,464. It has depreciated 
 
 5,912,510 in two years (!) and they are positively seeking 
 
 powtrs to raise another Five Millions ! 
 
 A " MANIA " LINE. 
 
 04 South Union and BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION Map of proposed 
 RAILWAY of Mania period, 1845. Is6dj 
 
 TUCK'S RAILWAY SHAREHOLDERS MANUAL. 
 
 $05 Tliek's Manual, 1845, First Ed. Abstracts of Acts, 
 finance of each company, and prices, from 1839. Continental 
 lines ; PROJECTED RAILWAYS : supported by Board of Trade, 
 with capital 10,240,000: to be postponed, 1,810,000: 
 reported against, 47,800,000. 3s6d 
 
 <50(> Third Edition, with projected Railways, supported 
 
 34,020,000 (capital) ; postponed, 1,810,000 ; reported 
 against, 33,265,000. 2s6d 
 
 07 Fourth Edition, 4s6d 
 
 (508 Fifth Edition, with costs of English railways, 
 
 svnopsis of American railways, particulars of English Railway 
 Bills; the supported Railways, representing 37,836,000: the 
 postponed, 3,720,000 : and reported against, 34,505,000. 
 2s6d 
 
 09 Sixth Edition, with 374 projected railways, numbered 
 
 but not classified, their capital, 372,750,000; projected Foreign 
 and Colonial railways added ; all projected railways indexed ; 
 and a Irst of amalgamated railways added. 2s6d 
 
 <510 Seventh Edition, 1846, with Remonstrance against 
 
 the thunder of " The Times" and "SPACKMAN'S Sin" ; total 
 capital of projected railways. 427,720,000,* and a list of 
 railways having deposited plans. 3s6d 
 
 611 Eight Edition, 1847 (book enlarged from 300pp. to 
 
 412pp.) The total Capital of projected companies discreetly 
 omitted, list of railway subscription Contracts, traffic returns, 
 carrying expenses, cost of loco, power, working expenses of 
 six companies ; Brunei's estimate of one mile of Railway ; Article 
 on the Electric Telegraph (with chart) ; Second Report of Select 
 Committee, August, 1846, Act for Commissioners, and 
 Abstract of Act for Dissolution of Companies, all added, together 
 with a List of Contents. 4s6d 
 
 *Soai3what over this amount was actually invested in railways twenty 
 years later. 
 
70 Financial History. 
 
 WHARNCLIFFE MEETINGS PROXIES. 
 
 612 Specimen of the OLD FORM of PROXY, as used by the 
 NOHFOLK RAILWAY COMPANY in 1856, with notice below that 
 a 2s6d stamp must be affixed ; together with a GREAT WESTERN 
 NOTICE of a WHARNCLIFFE MEETING, for consideration of 
 twenty-four new projects, aud an attached FORM of PROXY re- 
 quiring only a Penny Receipt Stamp ; dated 10th May, 1873. 
 The two Papers, 5s. 
 
 (For Herapath's opinion on PROXY VOTING, "A system which 
 enables the drones to overcome the bees, and places too great a 
 power in the hands of the directors." "A ivorse system for 
 railways never invented." See Herapath's Journal, 1850, 
 p. 489). 
 
 WORCESTER AT THE MANIA PERIOD. 
 
 613 Worcester Herald. A copy, with Advertisements of the 
 great Railway Mania period of 18452s6d 
 
 [See also under "Magazines."] 
 
 MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S REMEDY FOR BAD TRADE. 
 
 [MAKE MORE AFRICAN RAILWAYS.] 
 
 What roads were for ROME railways are for England. What is the use of 
 our new colonies without satisfactory communication? I say " use British 
 capital and British credit to create an instrument of trade [by making railways], 
 (Speech at BIRMINGHAM, 30th March, 1895 ) 
 
 1bi6tor\> of 1Railwa\> Haw, 
 
 LIABILITIES IN 1847 (Third Mania Period). 
 
 614 COX, E. W. (Barrister). RAILWAY LIABILITIES. Liabilities 
 of Provisional Committees, with account of the famous action of 
 Reynell v. Lewis, won by an Advertisement Agent against a 
 Committeeman of the Central Kent Railway. 54pp. , 8vo, sewn, 
 5s6d 1847 
 
 The author incidentally mentions (p. 49) that speculating' 
 attornies upon the debt of a single committeeman for 30 or40 r 
 often made a profit of 100 ! 
 
 RAILWAY LAW (Time of Second Mania). 
 
 615 Wordsworth, C. F. F. LAW RELATING TO RAILWAY 
 
 . . .and other Joint Stock Companies, cr. 8vo, 5s. 1837 
 
 Includes terms of the Bubble Act, prohibiting all Joint Stock 
 Companies, the text o/ the French Law of Partnerships en com- 
 mauidite," forms of the two essential deeds: The "Parliamen- 
 tary contract," and the '''Subscribers Agreement," etc. 
 
Parliamentary History. 71 
 
 parliamentary 1bistor^ t 
 
 ACTS (MIDLAND RAILWAY AND GENERAL). 
 
 616 Midland Counties Acts, 1836; 1838 ; mo. The- 
 
 Midland Railway Amalgamation Act, 1844 ; the 
 Midland, Nottingham, and Lincoln Act, 1845. 
 182R PtP Also LoRD SE YMOUR'S ACT (August, 1840); GLAD- 
 -STONE'S FIRST ACT (1842) and the COMPANIES' 
 GLAUSES AMALGAMATION ACT (May, 1845). In one 
 volume, folio, 30s 
 
 GOVERNMENT CONTROL FIRST ADVISED. 
 
 617 Report. The first from Select Committee on Rail- 
 ways. 121pp., folio, RARE, 10s lg;-5 9 
 
 Includes examination of Messrs. Glyn, Creed, Moss, 
 Laivrence,Sims, Saunders and Booth, mi the Manage'- 
 ment, Bye-Laws, etc., of their Companies. 
 
 618 The SECOND REPORT. 542pp., with Maps and 
 
 Indexes, folio, RARE, 30s August, 183 
 
 For ten years there had been no official attempt at 
 Government interference. But at last it grew obvious 
 that the interests of the public and of railway com- 
 panies were not identical. Officers of railways acknow- 
 ledged it in the evidence above, while Mr. Rathbone even 
 confessed that the MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY Third 
 Class Carriages were mere open boxes without seats, the 
 PASSENGERS ARE TAKEN AS THE PIGS ARE." No- 
 more impartial Committee ever sat, and it recommended 
 a Board for Government Supervision. It went into the 
 Companies finance, their power, and their taxation, 
 speed, fares, treatment of passengers, etc. Appendixes- 
 include Returns from all British and Foreign Railways 
 N.B. The Reports include evidence in full and in 
 them is often to be found the only now available infor- 
 mation on many points. 
 
 ANGLO-SCOTCH AND ANGLO-IRISH. 
 [Commission of Engineers to report on Communica- 
 tion between England, Ireland, and Scotland.] 
 619 First Report dealing with the IRISH ROUTES 
 50pp, and three maps. Second Report dealing with 
 LANCASTER and CARLISLE connection, 33pp, nine 
 Maps and Plans. Third Report dealing with the- 
 fchort Grayng Junction li ne (made to run the route 
 through Kendal. Six maps and plans. 10pp. First 
 Report on the East Coast Route, 68pp., with a capital 
 map of England and Scotch Lowlands ; together with 
 APPENDIX, with various Engineers' Reports, including 
 GEO. STEPHENSON on the Great North British (tablet 
 
72 Parliamentary History. 
 
 
 and numerous coloured Maps, Sections, Gradients, &c., of 
 all Lines discussed). 210pp. 59 coloured maps and plans. 
 Altogether, 5 vols., folio, 3 10s, 16th, April, 1840, 
 
 T ^ -^h March, 1841. 
 
 l In August, 1839, after the issue of the famous FIRST 
 and SECOND REPORTS on RAILWAYS had been issued, 
 Mr. O'CoNNELL and Mr. HODGSON HINDE got the House 
 to appoint engineers to inquire into the best routes for 
 connecting the English railway system ivith DUBLIN, 
 GLASGOW, and EDINBURGH. Capitalists were now 
 apparently absolutely terrified at the prospect of embarking 
 in projects entailing Parliamentary costs without knowing 
 the DATA for success. All the proposed trunk lines that 
 survived the 1836-7 mania are here considered and 
 mapped out ; the routes to Wales, the London and 
 York, and the south Scotland routes included, and the 
 routes of the Clarence, Hartlepool, etc. 
 
 N.B. The Reports include evidence in full. 
 
 RETURNS ON ACCIDENTS. 
 
 20 Returns on Accidents, Openings, Bye-Laws, and Traffic ; 
 with a SUPPLEMENTARY, 6pp. (a Letter from Chairman of Eastern 
 Counties Railway). 184pp, folio, 21s. 8th March, 1841 
 
 The Return was to state Bye-Laws disallowed, aggregate 
 Traffic, all ACCIDENTS causing injury, railways opened after 
 inspection, and lines opened, although condemned by inspector. 
 Bye-Laws imposing fines for loss of ticket were disapproved, so 
 were single line railways, four-wheeled engines, and various 
 sleepers, rails and chairs, as used by the Eastern Counties 
 Raihvay. 
 
 CAPITAL AND LOANS, 1861-2. 
 
 21 Board Of Trade Returns from each Railway Company, 
 shewing Capital and Loans, Traffic Returns, Expenditure and 
 Accidents, lor 1861 and 1862. 210pp. The two Returns, 5s6d 
 
 1862-3 
 
 BOARD OF TRADE CONTROL FOR ACCIDENTS. 
 
 <?22 Report of Select Committee on Railways, with Evidence. 
 210pp., folio, 21s 18th June, 1841 
 
 Report and Evidence on the subject of Special Board of Trade 
 Control towards the Prevention of Accidents. The Companies, 
 including the Manchester and Liverpool, greatly opposed. It 
 was followed by Mr. Gladstone's first Act (18J$). Evidence 
 includes that of Hy. Booth, Geo. Stephemon (on danger from 
 spetd, etc.), Samuel Laing, C. A. Saunders, Sir F. Smith 
 (Inspector-General of Railways). 
 
Parliamentary Histotv. 73 
 
 AMALGAMATION, 1846. 
 (End of the 10 per cent, period). 
 
 623 Amalgamation. First Report from the Select Committee 
 on Railways and Canals Amalgamation. 7pp, folio (8th April, 
 1846) and the SECOND Report, with evidence. 116pp,, folio. 
 22nd June, 1846. THE Two REPORTS, 2 2s 
 
 The reasons may be read here, which, ivhen the Companies had 
 reached the greatest height of their prosperity, led them to seek 
 that extensive amalgamation which was followed by an "inter- 
 necine warfare, almost equal to the Wars of the Hosts," and 
 doomed for ever their biggest dividends. 
 
 624 - - Returns, shewing the extent and particu- 
 lars of the Amalgamation of all Companies on July, 
 1848, with a very fine large folding Map, showing by 
 colours the extent of each line in Great Britain and 
 
 1848 Inland. 35pp., folio, two maps, 21s 1848 
 
 The Midland Line is here the largest Railway in the 
 
 United Kingdom ; the York and Newcastle comes fourth ; 
 
 the Great Northern sixth ; the Caledonian was exactly 
 
 twice as big as the North British. 
 
 ROYAL COMMISSION, 1865-6. 
 
 625 Royal Commission on Railways, March 1865 to 
 May, 1866 ; Minutes of Evidence. 889pp, folio, 30s 
 
 8510 Mr. Gait states people charged $s7^d from Liver- 
 pool to Manchester, and cost of conveyance is but One 
 Penny. 11620. Excursion Trains injurious. 11628. Excur- 
 sion traffic not very profitable. 14428 Cost of a Passenger 
 Train per train mile, 2s6d 15514. Lancashire and York- 
 shire Goods trains in 1851 carried on average of 38 tons 
 per Goods train ; L. & N. W. R., 50 tons. 14629. 
 Russian Railway Carriages. 1906 G. E. R. Shares 
 at 60 per cent, discount. G. W. R. at 40 per cent. 
 discount. 16412. Dividend-less Companies, bad accom- 
 modation. 
 
 IRailwai? 
 
 GEORGE STEPHENSON. 
 
 626 Layson, J. F., GEORGE STEPHENSON : the Locomotive and 
 Railway, loith portrait. 128pp., I6mo, 3s6d 1881 
 
 A biography, written as a " Centenary Memorial." 
 
 627 Maenay, Chas. (Centenary celebration, June 9th 1881) 
 GEORGE STEPHENSON and the Progress of Railway Enterprise 
 illustrated. 32pp., 12mo, wrapper, 3s6d 1881 
 
74 Railway Biography. 
 
 628 Story about George Stephenson, the great Railway 
 
 Engineer. 64pp, 18nio, original wrappers, pub. by Richardson, 
 
 of London, Dublin, and Derby. 5s Circa. 1849- 
 
 It appears from, p. 62, that it was when Sir Win. Follett used 
 
 Stephenson s own argument to overcome Dr. BUCKLAND, that 
 
 George gave vent to his approbation of the lt Gift of the Gab." 
 
 TELFORD. 
 
 629 Smiles' Life of Telford, post 8vo, doth, 3s 1837 
 
 DAVID STEVENSON. 
 
 630 Stevenson, David. (The first Clerk to the first Manager 
 of London and Birmingham (now L. & N. W.) Railway. FIFTY 
 YEARS on the LONDON and NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY and 
 other Memoirs of Life of Stevenson, edited by LEOPOLD TURNER. 
 153pp. Svo, 3s. 1891 
 
 The first 4$PP" aea ^ with railway matters only, and include a, 
 reference (p. 51) to the great ability of RICHARD MOON. The 
 remaining pages throw an interesting light on the ways of the 
 world as seen through the spectacles of a philosophic railway 
 official. 
 
 TREVITHICK. 
 
 631 Trevithiek. Memorial Edition of LIFE of TREVITHICK, well 
 illustrated. 24pp, Svo, wrappers, 4s 1883 
 
 Briefly illustrates the engines of the first mwii who ever ran a 
 locomotive on rails. 
 
 VIGNOLES. 
 
 632 Vignoles, 0. G. LIFE of C. B. VIGNOLES. A Reminiscence 
 of early railway history. 407pp, Svo, ctoth. 188 
 
 Engaqed on Liverpool and Manchester , North Union, Dublin, 
 Kingston, Midland Counties, Sheffield and Manchester, etc. 
 
 Bn Bn^lo^ffrencb IReiic of 1836. 
 
 IN THE DAYS OF PAMBOUR. 
 NAVIER S Lines of Railways and Use of Locomotive 
 
 Engines, translated by John Macneill, C.E., Svo, hf cf, 21s 
 
 1836 
 
 This work was published as early as Pambour in English, 
 when engineers were still greatly puzzled over the poioer or 
 powerlessness of locomotives on ''"slopes." It has references to 
 Adamson, Tredgold, and Wood, but finds M. Navier had really 
 opened the way to future enquirers. The translator thought 
 that railways for passengers should be differently made to those 
 for merchandise. He believed in the experiments of professors, 
 and became one of them, as well as chief raihvay engineer of 
 Ireland. 
 
 
Financial History. 67 
 
 LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. 
 
 589 Railways as they really are. No. 7. LANCASHIRE and 
 YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. By Smith. Second Edition. 40pp., 
 10s6d 1847 
 
 Fourteen of the directors hare been signing contracts for nearly 
 Three Millions. The L. and Y. shares, which, at the market 
 prices, September, 1841, were worth 5.290,672, are now (Sept., 
 1847) worth 1,687.790. Why so many shares, issued 1845-6, 
 when so few calls on former shares; why poor railways bough 
 at premiums or guaranteed. 
 
 LONDON AND BRIGHTON, 1847-9. 
 
 590 Statistics of Railways. By JOSEPH MILLER. No. 2. 
 LONDON and CROYDON Revenue and Capital Accounts, from 
 1835 to its amalgamation with BRIGHTON line. 4to, wrap- 
 per, 1848 ; No. 3, London, Brighton, and South Coast (last 
 leaf missing) 3849 ; also, an earlier edition for London and 
 Brighton (title missing), 1847. 5s 6d 
 
 LONDON AND BRIGHTON, 1890. 
 
 591 London, Brighton, and South Coast Report and Accounts, 
 June, 1890. Is 
 
 LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN, 1848. 
 
 592 L. and N.W.R. Appendix to Second Edition of The 
 Battle of the Age, by ARTHUR SMITH. Appendix, No. 1. 
 THE LONDON and NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. 13pp. and 
 
 three folding tables. 5s 1848 
 
 Either it (the L. & X- W. R.) has required more money to 
 be expended on it than it gains, or sums used for dividends have 
 been credited to capital account. 
 
 DAILY RAILWAY PRICES, 1846-7. 
 
 593 London Stock Exchange. A collection of NINETY-FOUR 
 DAILY RAILWAY SHARE LISTS, between November 27th, 1846, 
 and November, 3rd, 1847. VERY RARE. 10s6d 
 
 Nov. 21th to Dec. 28th, 15 ; Jan. 6th to April 28th, 15 ; 
 April 29ih to August 23rd, 30; Aug. 24th to Nov., 1847, 34. 
 TOTAL, 94. 
 
 RAILWAY FINANCE, 1837. 
 
 594 Mudge, R. M. Observations on Railways. 10s. 1837 
 
 This is the first work on Railway Finance. (See also Hand- 
 book] 
 
 FINANCE OF NORTHERN LINES, 1838. 
 
 595 Observations on PRINCIPAL RAILWAYS (chiefly North of 
 England and Scotch Railways), with coloured Maps, 64pp. 
 8vo, cloth. 5s6d 1838 
 
 This work on the companies now forming the Midland, the 
 North Eastern, L. & N. W., some Scotch lines, is the first 
 history of the companies, and the first work on the Finance of 
 iniividual companies. (See also Handbook.) 
 
68 Financial History. 
 
 COMPANIES CAPITAL AND EXPENDITURE, 1869. 
 
 596 Returns. Board of Trade Returns, shewing Capital and 
 Loans of each Railway Company, 31st December, 1869 ; also 
 Traffic Returns, Working Expenditure, Rolling Stock, etc., for 
 1869. 94pp, folio, 3s6d 1870 
 
 COMPANY STOCK AND SHARES, 1849. 
 
 597 Scrivener, H. The Railways of the United Kingdom. 
 (Hbk. p. 117). 8vo, cloth, 7s6d 1849 
 
 STOCKS AND SHARES, 1849-50. 
 
 598 Slaughter, M. (Secretary, Railways Department) RAILWAY 
 INTELLIGENCE (published under author, ot Stock Exchange), 
 No. 2, 40pp., for half-year ending 30th March, 1850. (Hbk. 
 p. 117.) 4 to, original wrappers, 5s 
 
 MR. SMILES AS A FINANCIER. 
 
 599 Smiles, Samuel. (Biographer, then Secretary Leeds and 
 Thirsk Railway). RAILWAY PROPERTY : its Condition and 
 Prospects. 64pp., 7s6d 1849 
 
 600 SECOND EDITION, with cuttings pasted on, and other 
 
 economical Pamphlets, including MURDOCK on the Game Laws 
 (1851) and MACGILL on Rent No Robbery, 1851. 15s 
 
 Mr. Smiles tried consolation at the dawn of the Hudson crisis. 
 He did not believe in " broad-cloth third-class passengers, or long 
 boiler engines." HERAPATH considered few productions equal 
 to it in value , and spoke of the numerous and important facts 
 recorded. (Vide Herepath's Journal, 1849, p. 105). 
 
 DIVIDENDS OUT OF CAPITAL, 1848. 
 
 601 Smith, Arthur. THE BUBBLE OF THE AGE ; or, the Falla- 
 cies of Railway Investments. 63pp., 8vo, stwn, 6s 1848 
 
 The author had as bad an idea of railway directors as 
 HERBERT SPENCER (see Railway Morals). He refers to the 
 curious Hudson guarantees of 10 per cent, to discounted lilies, 
 paying dividends out of capital, tackles the L. &N. IV. R. fully, 
 and considers everything connected with the Lancashire and 
 Yorkshire deplorable; rejers also to G.W.R., L. & S.W.R., 
 Brighton, S.E.R., Eastern Counties, and Yorkshire Lines. 
 
 SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY, 1845-6. 
 
 602 Sfouth Eastern Railway. GENERAL STATEMENT of the 
 POSITION and PROJECTS of the Company, 1845-6, 45pp., 4s 
 
 Contains a history of this line, and proposals for West Jz'nd terminus ; 
 branches from Deplford Creek to near Canterbury, also to Sheerness and 
 faversham Creek and to Maidstone, Axhford, and Tanbridge. Parlia. 
 ment and the public forced on the Company the course of their trunk 
 fine from which to make branches. Was it fair to allw a North 
 Kent Line? 
 
1 Financial History. 69 
 
 S.E.R., 1847. 
 
 -603 Railways as they are. By Arthur Smith. No. 2. The 
 
 DOVER or SOUTH- EASTERN RAILWAY, 44pp., 8vo, sewn, 
 
 10s6d 1347 
 
 Brings a very heavy charge against all Railway Directors, 
 
 and as regards the S. E. R., says that their present capital of 
 
 7,875.000, represents but 2,768,464. It has depreciated 
 
 5,912,510 in two years (!) and they are positively seeking 
 
 powtrs to raise another Five Millions ! 
 
 A "MANIA" LINE. 
 
 04 South Union and BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION Map of proposed 
 RAILWAY of Mania period, 1845. Is6dj 
 
 TUCK'S RAILWAY SHAREHOLDERS MANUAL. 
 
 05 Tuck's Manual, 1845, First Ed. Abstracts of Acts, 
 finance of each company, and prices, from 1839. Continental 
 lines ; PROJECTED RAILWAYS : supported by Board of Trade, 
 with capital 10,240,000: to be postponed, 1,810,000: 
 reported against, 47,800,000. 3s6d 
 
 fl06 Third Edition, with projected Railways, supported 
 
 34,020,000 (capital) ; postponed, 1,810,000 ; reported 
 against, 33,265,000. 2s6d 
 
 607 Fourth Edition, 4s6d 
 
 <J08 Fifth Edition, with costs of English railways, 
 
 synopsis of American railways, particulars of English Railway 
 Bills; the supported Railways, representing 37,836,000: the 
 postponed, 3,720,000: and reported against, 34,505,000. 
 2s6d 
 
 608 Sixth Edition, with 374 projected railways, numbered 
 
 but not classified, their capital, 372,750,000; projected Foreign 
 and Colonial railways added ; all projected railways indexed ; 
 and a liist of amalgamated railways added. 2s6d 
 
 10 Seventh Edition, 1846, with Remonstrance against 
 
 the tlmnder of " The Times" and "SPACKMAN'S Sin" ; total 
 capital of projected railways. 427,720,000,* and a list of 
 railways having deposited plans. 3s6d 
 
 611 Eight Edition, 1847 (book enlarged from 300pp. to 
 
 412pp.) The total Capital of projected companies discreetly 
 omitted, list of railway subscription Contracts, traffic returns, 
 carrying expenses, cost of loco, power, working expenses of 
 six companies ; Brunei's estimate of one mile of Railway ; Article 
 . on the Electric Telegraph (with chart) ; Second Report ot' Select 
 Committee, August, 1846, Act for Commissioners, , and 
 Abstract of Act for Dissolution of Companies, all added, together 
 with a List of Contents. 4s6d 
 
 *SoHiewh:it over this amount was actually invested in railways twenty 
 years later. 
 
70 Financial History. 
 
 WHARNCLIFFE MEETINGS-PROXIES. 
 
 612 Specimen of the OLD FORM of PROXY, as used by the 
 NORFOLK RAILWAY COMPANY in 1856, with notice below that 
 a 2s6d stamp musts "be affixed ; together with a GREAT WESTERN 
 NOTICE of a WHARNCLIFFE MEETING, for consideration of 
 twenty-four new projects, aud an attached FORM of PROXY re- 
 quiring only a Penny Receipt Stamp ; dated 10th May, 1873. 
 The two Papers, 5s. 
 
 (For Herapath's opinion on PROXY VOTING, ' 1 A system which 
 enables the drones to overcome the bees, and places too great a 
 poiver in the hands of the directors." " A worse system for 
 railways never invented." See fferapath's Journal, 1850, 
 p. 489). 
 
 WORCESTER AT THE MANIA PERIOD. 
 
 613 Worcester Herald. A copy, with Advertisements of th* 
 great Railway Mania period of 18452s6d 
 
 [See also under "Magazines."] 
 
 MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S REMEDY FOR BAD TRADE. 
 
 [MAKE MORE AFEICAN RAILWAYS.] 
 
 What road* were for ROME railways are for England. What is the use of 
 our new colonies without satisfactory communication? I say " use British 
 capital and British credit to create an instrument of trade [by making railways]^ 
 (Speech at BIRMINGHAM, 30th March, 1895 ) 
 
 Ibiston? of IRailwai? 
 
 LIABILITIES IN 1847 (Third Mania Period). 
 
 614 COX, E. W. (Barrister). RAILWAY LIABILITIES. Liabilities- 
 of Provisional Committees, with account of the famous action of 
 Reynell v. Lewis, won by an Advertisement Agent against a 
 Committeeman of the Central Kent Railway. 54pp. , 8vo, seivn, 
 5s6d 1S47 
 
 The author incidentally mentions (p. 4$) that speculating 1 
 attornies upon the debt of a single committeeman for 30 or 40, 
 often made a profit of 100 ! 
 
 RAILWAY LAW (Time of Second Mania). 
 
 615 Wordsworth, C. F. F. LAW RELATING TO RAILWAY 
 . . .and other Joint Stock Companies, cr. 8vo, 5s. 1837 
 
 Includes terms of the Bubble Act, prohibiting all Joint Stock 
 Companies, the text o/ the French Law of Partnerships en com- 
 m&iidite," forms of the two essential deeds-. The "Parliamen- 
 tary contract," and the ''Subscribers Agreement," etc. 
 
Parliamentary History. 71 
 
 : 
 
 parliamentary Ibistoi^, 
 
 ACTS (MIDLAND RAILWAY AND GENERAL). 
 
 616 Midland Counties Acts, 1336; 1838 ; 1840. Th* 
 
 Midland Railway Amalgamation Act, 1844 ; the 
 Midland, Nottingham, and Lincoln Act, 1845. 
 f Also LORD SEYMOUR'S ACT (August, 1840) ; GLAD- 
 etc. STONK ' S FIRST ACT (1842) and the COMPANIES' 
 CLAUSES AMALGAMATION ACT (May, 1845). In one 
 volume, folio, 30s 
 
 GOVERNMENT CONTROL FIRST ADVISED. 
 
 617 Report. The first from Select Committee on Rail- 
 wavs. 121pp., folio, RARE, 10s 18^9 
 
 Includes examination of Messrs. Glyn, Creed, Moss, 
 Lawrence , Sims, Saunders and Booth, on the Manage- 
 ment, Bye-Laws, etc., of their Companies. 
 
 618 The SECOND REPORT. 542pp., with Maps and 
 
 Indexes, folio, RARE, 30s August, 1839 
 
 For ten years there had been no official attempt at 
 Government interference. But at last it grew obvious 
 that the interests of the public and of railway com- 
 panies were not identical. Officers of railways acknow- 
 ledged it in the evidence above , while Mr. Rathbone even 
 confessed that the MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY Third, 
 Class Carriages were mere open boxes without seats, the 
 "PASSENGERS ARE TAKEN AS THE PIGS ARE." No- 
 more impartial Committee ever sat, and it recommended 
 a Board for Government Supervision. It went into the 
 Companies finance, their power, and their taxation, 
 speed^ fares, treatment of passengers, etc. Appendixes 
 include Returns from all British and Foreign Railways 
 
 N.B. The Reports include evidence in full and in 
 them is often to be found the only now available infor- 
 mation on many points. 
 
 ANGLO-SCOTCH AND ANGLO-IRISH. 
 
 [Commission of Engineers to report on Communica- 
 tion between England, Ireland, and Scotland.] 
 619 First Report dealing with the IRISH ROUTES, 
 50pp, and three maps. Second Report dealing with 
 LANCASTER and CARLISLE connection, 33pp, nine 
 Maps and Plans. Third Report dealing with the 
 Short Grayrig Junction line (made to run the route 
 through Kendal. Six maps and plans. 10pp. First 
 Report on the East Coast Route, 68pp., with a capital 
 map of England and Scotch Lowlands ; together with 
 APPEKDIX, with various Engineers' Reports, including 
 GEO. STEPHENSON on the Great North British (tables 
 
72 Parliamentary History. 
 
 and numerous coloured Maps, Sections, Gradients, &c., of 
 all Lines discussed). 210pp. 59 coloured maps and plans. 
 Altogether, 5 vols., folio, 3 105, 16th, April, 1840, 
 
 TPAfi AT to 15tl1 Marcn > 184] - 
 
 J.OW11 In August, 1839, after the issue of the famous FIRST 
 and SECOND REPORTS on RAILWAYS had been issued, 
 Mr. O'CONNELL and Mr. HODGSON HINDE got the House 
 to appoint engineers to inquire into the best routes for 
 connecting the English railway system with DUBLIN, 
 GLASGOW, and EDINBURGH. Capitalists were now 
 apparently absolutely terrified at the prospect of embarking 
 in projects entailing Pat liamentary costs without knowing 
 the DATA for success. All the proposed trunk lines that 
 survived the 1836-7 mania are here considered and 
 mapped out ; the routes to Wales, the London and 
 York, and the south Scotland routes included, and the 
 routes of the Clarence, Hartlepool, etc. 
 
 N.B. The Reports include evidence in full. 
 
 RETURNS ON ACCIDENTS. 
 
 ^20 Returns on Accidents, Openings, Bye-Laws, and Traffic 
 with a SUPPLEMENTARY, 6pp. (a Letter from Chairman of Eastern 
 Counties Railway). 184pp, folio, 21s. 8th March, 1841 
 
 The Return ivas to state Bye-Laws disallowed, aggregate 
 Traffic, all ACCIDENTS causing injury, railways opened after 
 inspection, and lines opened, although condemned by inspector. 
 Bye-Laws imposing fines for loss of ticket were disapproved, so 
 were single line railways, four-wheeled engines, and various 
 sleepers, rails and chairs, as used by the Eastern Counties 
 Railway. 
 
 CAPITAL AND LOANS, 1861-2. 
 
 621 Board Of Trade Returns from each Railway Company, 
 shewing Capital and Loans, Traffic Returns, Expenditure and 
 Accidents, for 1861 and 1862. 210pp. The two Returns, 5s6d 
 
 1862-3 
 
 BOARD OF TRADE CONTROL FOR ACCIDENTS. 
 
 $22 Report of Select Committee on Railways, with Evidence. 
 210pp., folio, 21s 18th June, 1841 
 
 Report and Evidence on the subject of Special Board of Trade 
 Control towards the Prevention of Accidents. The Companies, 
 including the Manchester and Liverpool, greatly opposed. It 
 was followed by Mr. Gladstone's first Act (184%)- Evidence 
 includes that of Hy. Booth, Geo. Stephenson (on danger from 
 speed, etc.), Samuel Laing, C. A. Saunders, Sir F. Smith 
 (Inspector- General of Railways). 
 
 
Parliamentary Histoni. 73 
 
 AMALGAMATION, 1846. 
 (End of the 10 pep cent, period). 
 
 323 Amalgamation. First Report from the Select Committee 
 on Railways and Canals Amalgamation. 7pp, folio (8th April, 
 1846) arid the SECOND Report, with evidence. 116pp,, folio. 
 22nd June, 1846. THE Two REPORTS, 2 2s 
 
 The reasons may be read here, which, ivhen the Companies had 
 reached the greatest height of their prosperity, led them to seek 
 that extensive amalgamation which ivas followed by an " inter- 
 necine warfare, almost equal to the Wars of the Hosts,'' and 
 doomed for ever their biggest dividends. 
 
 - Returns, shewing the extent and particu- 
 
 lars of the Amalgamation of all Companies on July, 
 
 1848, with a very fine large folding Map, showing by 
 
 colours the extent of each line in Great Britain and 
 
 1848 Inland. 35pp., folio, two maps, 21s 1848 
 
 The Midland Line is here the largest Railway in the 
 
 United Kingdom ; the York and Newcastle comes fourth ; 
 
 the Great Northern sixth ; the Caledonian was exactly 
 
 twice as big as the North British. 
 
 ROYAL COMMISSION, 1865-6. 
 
 625 Royal Commission on Railways, March 1865 to 
 May, 1866 ; Minutes of Evidence. 889pp, folio, 30s 
 
 1867 
 
 8510 Mr. Gait states people charged 2sl\d from Liver- 
 pool to Manchester, and cost of conveyance is but One 
 Penny. 11620. Excursion Trainsinjurious.il 628. Excur- 
 sion traffic not very profitable. 14428 Cost of a Passenger 
 Train per train mile, Ss6d 15514. Lancashire and York- 
 shire Goods trains in 1851 carried on average of 38 tons 
 per Goods train ; L. & N. W. E., 50 tons. 14629- 
 Russian Railway Carriages. 1906 G. E. R. Shares 
 at 60 per cent, discount. G. W. R. at 40 per cent. 
 discount. 16412. Dividend-less Companies, bad accom- 
 modation. 
 
 1Railwa$ 
 
 GEORGE STEPHENSON. 
 
 626 Layson, J. F., GEORGE STKPHENSON : the Locomotive and 
 Railway, with portrait. 128pp., I6mo, 3s6d 1881 
 
 A biography, written as a " Centenary Memorial" 
 
 627 Maenay, Chas. (Centenary celebration, June 9th, 1881). 
 GEORGE STEPHENSON and the Progress of Railway Enterprise, 
 illustrated. 32pp., 12mo, wrapper, 3s6d 1881 
 
74 Railway Biography. 
 
 628 Story about George Stephenson, the great Railway 
 
 Engineer. 64pp. 18mo, original wrappers, pub. by Richard son, 
 
 of London, Dublin, and Derby. 5s Circa. 1849 
 
 It appears from p. 62, that it was when Sir Wm. Follett used 
 
 Stephensoris own argument to overcome Dr. BUCKLAND, that 
 
 George gave vent to his approbation of the l< Gift of the Gab." 
 
 TELFORD. 
 
 629 Smiles' Life of Telford, post 8vo, cloth, 3s 1837 
 
 DAVID STEVENSON. 
 
 630 Stevenson, David. (The first Clerk to the first Manager 
 of London and Birmingham (now L. & N. W.) Railway. FIFTY 
 YEARS on the LONDON and NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY and 
 other Memoirs of Life of Stevenson, edited by LEOPOLD TURNER. 
 153pp, 8vo, 3s. 1891 
 
 The first Jf5pp> deal with railway matters only, and include a 
 reference (p. 51) to the great ability of RICHARD MOON. The 
 remaining pages throw an interesting light on the ways of the 
 world as seen through the spectacles of a philosophic railway 
 official. 
 
 TREVITHICK. 
 
 631 Trevithiek. Memorial Edition of LIFE of TREVITHICK, well 
 illustrated. 24pp, 8vo, wrappers, 4s 188S 
 
 Briefly illustrates the engines of the first man who ever ran a, 
 locomotive on rails. 
 
 VIGNOLES. 
 
 632 Vignoles, 0. G. LIFE of C. B. VIGNOLES. A Reminiscence 
 of early railway history. 407pp, 8vo, ctoth. 188& 
 
 Engaged on Liverpool and Manchester , North Union, Dublin, 
 Kingston, Midland Counties, Sheffield and Manchester, etc. 
 
 Bit Bnglo-ffrencb IReltc of 1836. 
 
 IN THE DAYS OF PAMBOUR. 
 NAVIER'S Lines of Railways and Use of Locomotive 
 
 Engines, translated by John Macneill, C.E., 8vo, hf cf, 21s 
 
 1836 
 
 This work was published as early as Pambour in English, 
 when engineers were still greatly puzzled over the power or 
 powerlessness of locomotives on ' ' slopes. " It has references to 
 Adamson, Tredgold, and Wood, but finds M. Navier had really 
 opened the way to future enquirers. The translator thought 
 that railways for passengers should be differently made to those 
 for merchandise. He believed in the experiments of professors, 
 and became one of them, as well as chief railway engineer of 
 Jr eland. 
 
Early Railway Travelling. 91 
 
 EARLY RAILWAY TRAVELLING. 
 LIVERPOOL & MANCHESTER LINE. 
 
 Pictures bought by the Prince of Wales. 
 Raphael Tuck's Splendid Reproductions of the famous 
 " Coloured Views." 
 
 .Illllll. lllJl .Illllll 1llllll,...illllll1 lUni,...ilrillll....llllltlt....llllllH....illHlll....inlllll llllll..'..illllll Illllll Hill lllll llll 
 
 first |pa00enaer drains. 
 
 FIRST-CLASS TRAIN with the MAIL. 
 
 _ i 
 
 SECOND-CLASS TRAIN (with some 3rd 
 
 Class Carriages). 
 I 
 
 i 1 ..... nun ...... uiiii'-iiuiiiM-iiiiii ...... mill ...... uiiiiii ..... iiiini'-iiiHiii'-uiii ....... mum ....... um ...... m ........ niiin'"'iiiiiiii" i 'iiiii ........ inn ....... "ii"' 1 
 
 (Soofcs an& Cattle. 
 
 The FIRST GOODS TRAIN. 
 
 3 __ 
 
 The FIRST CATTLE TRAIN. 
 
 *=n ...... <i|-|i ....... r|i ....... I'M ........ l"l ....... i|"|i ...... i|"l> ..... '"I'M ........ I'M ....... 'l"|i ...... U"l ........ l"|i ....... l"l' ....... l"l ....... i|"|i"""l"l ....... 'I' 
 
 RAPHAEL TUCK'S Reproduction of two of the COLOURED 
 
 VIEWS of the LIVERPOOL # MANCHESTER 
 RAILWAY (1831). 
 
 The pair in very neat glazed oak frame (33 x 17), 21s 
 
 (,, ,, in neat black frames (unglazed, in old style) 
 (30x13), 15s 
 ,, ,, un framed, 13s6d 
 IN THESE VIEWS we get most accurate representations of 
 
 1 the FIRST DAYS of the FIRST LOCOMOTIVE RAILWAY, 
 
 including earliest engines ("FURY." "LIVERPOOL," 
 "JUPITER," "NORTH STAR"), of the famous FENTON, 
 MURRAY, BURY, and STEPHKXSON firms. 
 
92 
 
 Early Railway Travelling. 
 
 The re productions have been carefully effected, the colour- 
 ing is bright but delicate, and the soft mezzotint rendering of 
 the foliage in the background, which involved great trouble, 
 is particularly noteworthy, and adds considerably to the 
 picturesque result. 
 
 We see here after the quaint engines the coach-like FIRST- 
 CLASS TRAIN and the exceedingly uncomfortable truck-like 
 SECOND-CLASS TRAIN, GOODS trains with merchant's 
 employees spread out on them, wild beast-show sheep cages, 
 and early CATTLE TRUCK TRAINS, and all of the frail, 
 four-wheeled, brakeless sort, meeting of course with constant 
 accident. 
 
 One can hardly wonder at LECOUNT suggesting towing 
 invalid trains by ropes, nor perhaps at his suggestion that a 
 man should be " posted on the engine with a small telescope," 
 especially when he adds that the latter might save an accident 
 "IN CASE of a RAIL HAVING BEEN LEFT OUT"(!) 
 
 Boohs 
 
 Stretton's History of Leic. and 
 S wanning ton Railway 
 
 Hughes' Construction of the 
 Modern Locomotive 
 
 Edwards' Modern American 
 Locos. 
 
 Francis' History of Railways 
 
 The Two Jameses and the Two 
 Stephensons 
 
 Windsor, A. W. Some Statis- 
 tics of our English Express 
 Trains (Luff), 1838, 8vo, 
 pp. 23 
 
 The Engineer article on the 
 Jubilee of Express Trains 
 
 Barry and Bramwell Railways 
 and Locomotives 
 
 ROBERT STUART. 
 
 Stuart on the Steam Engine. The real name of the author was 
 Robert Meikleham or MICKLEHAM, and I regret to have to 
 record that he died in a workhouse. 
 
 
 {Table of Contents. 
 
 Addenda 
 
 - 81 
 
 Switzerland - - s7 
 
 American Railroads - 
 
 - 75, 88 
 
 Guides - 
 
 - 41 
 
 Amospheric Rys 
 
 - 61 
 
 Legal History 
 
 - 70 
 
 Biography - 
 
 - 78 
 
 Locomotives- 
 
 - 58 
 
 Bradshaw 
 
 - o(5 
 
 Management 
 
 - 50 
 
 Company History 
 
 - 52 
 
 Nationalization 
 
 - 46 
 
 Construction - 
 
 - 47 
 
 NAVIGATION - 
 
 - 61 
 
 Earliest Ry. Recods - 
 
 - Sri 
 
 New Books - 
 
 - 81) 
 
 Engineering History - 
 
 - 47 
 
 Notes on Books in Hbk. 
 
 1, 88 
 
 Financial History 
 FOREIGN RAILWAYS: 
 
 - t>3 
 
 Parliamentary History 
 Political History of Rys. 
 
 - 71 
 - 46 
 
 America 
 
 - 75, SS 
 
 Railroadiana 
 
 - 78 
 
 Australia 
 
 - 88 
 
 1 Jail way Magazines 
 
 - 7<> 
 
 Belgium 
 
 - sr, 
 
 Steam on Common Rds. 
 
 - :.s 
 
 France- 
 
 - >sti 
 
 Subject index to Hbk.- 
 
 - 1'7 
 
 Germany 
 
 - 83 
 
 Telegraph - 
 
 
 India - 
 
 - 
 
 Title Tndox to Hbk - 
 
 f> 
 
 Italy - 
 
 - S7 
 
 Views - 
 
 - Ml 
 
 Russia - 
 
 - *7 
 
 
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 WORKS, 73, Parade, BIRMINGHAM, 1896. 
 
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