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Early Railways Pleasures and Treasures J.B. Snell w/ dust jacket
Early Railways Pleasures and Treasures J.B. Snell
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
Copyright 1964
128 Pages
CONTENTS
1 THE ORIGINS OF THE RAILWAY page 7
Railway prehistory - coalmines and waggonways - iron and water - strong steam - Trevithick and others - Hedley, Stephenson and Newcastle - Stockton and Darlington Railway - steam power on trial in England and elsewhere - the Baltimore and Ohio - the railway as a public nuisance - Rainhill - the railway as a public benefactor
2 THE FIRST MAIN LINES (1830-70) 41
The great national networks conceived - British, American and Continental first principles - how railway economics, politics and technology depend on each other - better tracks or better trains?- pilots and bogies - impermanent ways - broad gauges - simple mountaineering - comfort and safety - collisions - corrupting influences - railways and revolution
3 COMPLETING THE NETWORKS (1870-1900) 83
Narrow gauges - advanced mountaineering - tunnels - racks and gearing - the genesis of the branch-line problem - railway empire-building - villains, capped and hatted - stronger and speedier locomotives - wheels and valves - compounds - Mr Webb's compounds - Britain rests on her laurels - brakes and breakages - the commuter - paint and polish
4 THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY (1900-14) 115
Atlantics and Pacifics - Anatole Mallet - the first electrics - Dr Diesel - the beginnings of modern signalling - state ownership - when the going was good
The railway was the first transport system, capable of sustaining a modern urban civilization, and it remains the most important. The invention of the steam locomotive in the early nineteenth century, followed by the rapid expansion of railway networks to cover large areas of the globe, form an essential and fascinating part of the history of modern man.
In this book, J. B. Snell, an outstanding authority on the history of railways, has traced the story from its earliest beginnings until the First World War. He describes the technical development of steam power and the permanent way that made possible the construction of fast. lines through even the most difficult and mountainous country in many parts of the world. He writes of engine-design, signaling systems, tunneling, railway economics and politics, conditions of early rail-travel, and the great engineers of several countries from whose energy and inventiveness we still benefit.
His book is illustrated by nearly 150 pictures, over thirty of them in color, which bring to life the obstacles by which early railwaymen were confronted and the impact which their pertinacity had upon the lives of our great-grandfathers.
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