The Development of Transportation in Modern England
2 Part Paperback Set

Table of Contents

Volume 1:
1. Introduction
2. Roads and road legislation, 1500–1750
3. River navigation, 1500–1750
4. Roads and their improvement, 1750–1830
5. Inland navigation, 1750–1830
6. Steam navigation. Volume 2:
7. Development of railways
8. Effects of steam upon road transportation
9. Competition of railways and canals
Appendix 1. River Weaver navigation
Appendix 2. Shapleigh on Highways (1749)
Appendix 3. Hawkins on the Laws of Highways (1763)
Appendix 4. On letting the tolls
Appendix 5. Rate of travelling, 1750–1830
Appendix 6. Cost of travelling, 1750–1830
Appendix 7. Cost of carriage of goods by land, 1750–1830
Appendix 8. Statistics of comparative cost of carriage by road and inland navigation
Appendix 9. Table of canal and railway amalgamations, 1846–72
Appendix 10. Statistics showing effects of railways in reducing canal freight rates
Appendix 11. Statistics showing extent to which freight rates were raised through amalgamations of canals and railways
Appendix 12. Illustrations of the way in which canals sometimes maintained competition against the railways
Appendix 13. Statistical view of highway and canal legislation
Appendix 14. Pickford et al. v. The Grand Junction Railway Company
Bibliography
Index.