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      A History of Inland Transport and Communication

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      A History of Inland Transport and Communication

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      A History of Inland Transport and Communication book

      ByEdwin A. Pratt
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 1912
      eBook Published 12 May 2021
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003156154
      Pages 550
      eBook ISBN 9781003156154
      Subjects Built Environment, Geography, Urban Studies
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      Pratt, E.A. (1912). A History of Inland Transport and Communication (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003156154

      ABSTRACT

      Originally published in 1912, this book with extensive source footnotes and bibliography follows the evolution and development of roads, rivers, canals, tramways, buses and cycles. The role that the development of transport played in the growth and expansion of trade and industry and on the general economic and social conditions of the country is one of the main issues that is discussed. Other themes which are examined are the electrification of the railways, railways and the state, railway rates and charges and early trading conditions.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter Chapter I|3 pages

      Introductory

      chapter Chapter II|7 pages

      Britain’s Earliest Roads

      chapter Chapter III|4 pages

      Roads and the Church

      chapter Chapter IV|13 pages

      Early Trading Conditions

      chapter Chapter V|7 pages

      Early Road Legislation

      chapter Chapter VI|8 pages

      Early Carriages

      chapter Chapter VII|8 pages

      Loads, Wheels and Roads

      chapter Chapter VIII|13 pages

      The Coaching Era

      chapter Chapter IX|13 pages

      The Age of Bad Roads

      chapter Chapter X|8 pages

      The Turnpike System

      chapter Chapter XI|13 pages

      Trade and Transport in the Turnpike Era

      chapter Chapter XII|10 pages

      Scientific Road-Making

      chapter Chapter XIII|20 pages

      Rivers and River Transport

      chapter Chapter XIV|22 pages

      River Improvement and Industrial Expansion

      chapter Chapter XV|15 pages

      Disadvantages of River Navigation

      chapter Chapter XVI|21 pages

      The Canal Era

      chapter Chapter XVII|9 pages

      The Industrial Revolution

      chapter Chapter XVIII|27 pages

      Evolution of the Railway

      chapter Chapter XIX|20 pages

      The Railway Era

      chapter Chapter XX|16 pages

      Railway Expansion

      chapter Chapter XXI|36 pages

      Railways and the State

      chapter Chapter XXII|18 pages

      Decline of Canals

      chapter Chapter XXIII|13 pages

      Decline of Turnpikes

      chapter Chapter XXIV|10 pages

      End of the Coaching Era

      chapter Chapter XXV|24 pages

      Railway Rates and Charges

      chapter Chapter XXVI|26 pages

      The Railway System To-day

      chapter Chapter XXVII|20 pages

      What the Railways Have Done

      chapter Chapter XXVIII|48 pages

      Railways a National Industry

      chapter Chapter XXIX|19 pages

      Tramways, Motor-buses and Railless Electric Traction

      chapter Chapter XXX|22 pages

      Cycles, Motor-Vehicles and Tubes

      chapter Chapter XXXI|20 pages

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