The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Volume Two Preston to Carlisle

by Stanley C. Jenkins and Martin Loader

The obvious success of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway demonstrated that steam railways were a safe, fast and efficient form of transport, and by the end of the 1830s ambitious entrepreneurs were planning a multiplicity of railways up, down and across the land. At first, the new railways were of purely local importance, but the need to connect important cities such as London, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow led to the promotion of major trunk...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445643871
• ISBN13: 9781445643878
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.6" x 6.5"