Thus the whole subject of inland transport is now so much "in the air" that the story of its gradual and varied development, as here told—and this, too, for the first time on the lines adopted in the present work—should form a useful contribution to the available literature on one of the most important of present-day problems.
EDWIN A. PRATT.
December 12, 1911.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Introductory | [1] |
| II. | Britain's Earliest Roads | [4] |
| III. | Roads and the Church | [11] |
| IV. | Early Trading Conditions | [15] |
| V. | Early Road Legislation | [28] |
| VI. | Early Carriages | [35] |
| VII. | Loads, Wheels and Roads | [43] |
| VIII. | The Coaching Era | [51] |
| IX. | The Age of Bad Roads | [64] |
| X. | The Turnpike System | [77] |
| XI. | Trade and Transport in the Turnpike Era | [85] |
| XII. | Scientific Road-making | [98] |
| XIII. | Rivers and River Transport | [108] |
| XIV. | River Improvement and Industrial Expansion | [128] |
| XV. | Disadvantages of River Navigation | [150] |
| XVI. | The Canal Era | [165] |
| XVII. | The Industrial Revolution | [186] |
| XVIII. | Evolution of the Railway | [195] |
| XIX. | The Railway Era | [222] |
| XX. | Railway Expansion | [242] |
XXI. | Railways and the State | [258] |
| XXII. | Decline of Canals | [294] |
| XXIII. | Decline of Turnpikes | [312] |
| XXIV. | End of the Coaching Era | [325] |
| XXV. | Railway Rates and Charges | [335] |
| XXVI. | The Railway System To-day | [359] |
| XXVII. | What the Railways have Done | [385] |
| XXVIII. | Railways a National Industry | [405] |
| XXIX. | Tramways, Motor-buses and Rail-less Electric Traction | [453] |
| XXX. | Cycles, Motor-vehicles and Tubes | [472] |
| XXXI. | The Outlook | [494] |
| Authorities | [514] | |
| Index | [522] | |
A HISTORY
OF
INLAND TRANSPORT AND
COMMUNICATION