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Railway, The by Edgar Schieldrop Conquest of Space and TIme DJ Revised Enlarged
The Railway By Edgar Schieldrop 256 Pages Dust Jacket Copyright 1939, REVISED and ENLARGED EDITION 1956
The railway spans the earth, the importance of gradients, scaling mountain heights, how tunnels are built, spanning rivers and chasms, locomotives of today, passenger first, safety first, electric locomotives, underground railways, more.
FOREWORD
It was with very great pleasure that I accepted the invitation of the Editor of Dr. Schieldrop's quadrilogy, "Conquest of Space and Time", to write a foreword to the first volume "The Railway." At the present time, when the financial position of the railways in every civilized country is the cause of grave anxiety to governments and stockholders alike, any authoritative addition to railway literature is of exceptional interest and value, and a work from the pen of so distinguished a scientist and engineer as Dr. Schieldrop is assured of a cordial welcome.
In the pages that follow, the author traces in a manner informative and fascinating, the development of railways from the historic race at Rainhill, in 1829, when Stephenson's Rocket proved its superiority over its rivals and made its proud designer the richer by ism.
Today the railway is so completely a part of the ordinary everyday life of the people that only an intensive publicity campaign can bring home to the public that it, in common with every other business, has its problems and its difficulties. A town of any size without its railway station is an unthinkable proposition. As we cross and recross the railway track, going about the roads on our lawful occasions, we give it little thought beyond perhaps a mental note that the surface of the bridge we have just crossed left something to be desired. And yet it is round the station and the goods yard, alongside the steel track, that the industrial prosperity of this country has been built up.
In these pages the reader can learn something of the engineering genius which has given of itself so unsparingly to overcome the difficulties, natural and artificial, which beset the path of railway development. He will realize the part that "those two ribbons of shining steel" and the rolling stock that passes along them have played in the astounding progress of civilization (luring the last hundred years, and the debt of gratitude that we owe to those who have built up this great international transport service.
In the concluding chapter Dr. Schieldrop gives us an interesting survey 1 the future of the railways. It is a question that is exercising the minds of many people at the present time. He says "the railway is not yet retiring from the service of mankind", and I have no doubt whatever that he is right. The railways must fight, not for their existence, it is true, but for the right to operate on equal terms with their competitors. They find themselves hampered by out-of-date restrictions and controls which were imposed at a time when they enjoyed a virtual monopoly of the carrying trade on land. They are, even in present circumstances, putting out tremendous efforts to meet the requirements of an ever-changing world. After a hundred years they are more necessary to the orderly development of civilization than they were in their infancy.
In due time there will emerge for each and every form of transport a well-defined sphere of usefulness and activity, and the ever-growing needs of the community will be met by well-planned schemes of co-ordination. It may well be that, as he prophesies, there will be revolutionary changes in the form of locomotives and rolling stock, but the foundation on which railway transport has been built-the track-will remain.
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