Stone Blocks and Iron Rails
Details:
- Author(s) Baxter, Bertram
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1966
- Pages 272pp; illus
- Publisher David & Charles
- Place Published Newton Abbot
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Deals with industrial railways, especially their industrial archaeology, in two parts: 1] Essays including 'Rise and fall' [history of use]; 'The track' [development and nature] , 'Engineering of horse railways' [construction] and 'Tracing old lines' [industrial archaeology aspects]; 2] 'Gazetteer of waggonways and tramroads' [pp143-236] including a list of abortive schemes