ABSTRACT
An improved system of transport was a necessary part of Britain's industrialization. Only by this means could the raw materials and industrial products of different regions be moved over distances from their point of production to their place of consumption. Traditionally, most goods transported either on the road transport or via river navigations. Waggons and carts transferred agricultural samples, gold, silver and copper, industrial goods, and, to a limited extent, were also involved in passenger travel. These modes of transport continued to exist in 1850 as they had done in 1750 but improved by newer developments such as canals and iron railways. The developments in internal transport in our period lay the canals growth. Canals have traditionally viewed as being at the forefront of improvements in internal transport in the early industrial age; roads accorded less attention. Compared with canals, roads were much less expensive to build and maintain; they penetrated even more rough-hewn areas of the country than canals.
