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World's Railroads, The History & Development of Rail Transport Christopher Chant
The Worlds Railroads History & Development of Rail Transport By Christopher Chant Dust Jacket 2000 447 pages Indexed
Early pioneers
Locomotives
Passenger trains
Freight by rail
Famous trains of the 20th century
Rapid transit systems and the decline of steam
High speed trains
Index
Although the origins of the train concept are to be found in the Middle Ages, and the use of steam power for locomotives emerged in the Industrial Revolution of the I 8th century, the train really came of age in the Victorian era of the 19th century. At this time there was an explosion of technical ideas, and this combined with greater national wealth and a rapidly changing social and economic climate to spur a railway boom. Railroad lines spread over every part of the world where there was a social and economic advantage to be gained, and there was an extraordinarily rapid development in the speed and capacity of trains operating on these lines.
Within 75 years, the railroads had become the standard means of mass transportation in most parts of the world, and major technological developments were seeing the arrival of the first rapid transport systems as well as trains with electric and then diesel propulsion. The car, and later the aeroplane, then made inroads into the railroads' overall superiority, hut in more recent years more advanced technologies and an increasing level of disenchantment with the car and the aeroplane have led to a resurgence in the fortunes of the railroad concept.
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