WORKS BY EDWIN A. PRATT.
A HISTORY OF INLAND TRANSPORT AND
COMMUNICATION IN ENGLAND.
CONTENTS.
| CHAP. | |
| I | Introductory |
| II | Britain's Earliest Roads |
| III | Roads and the Church |
| IV | Early Trading Conditions |
| V | Early Road Legislation |
| VI | Early Carriages |
| VII | Loads, Wheels and Roads |
| VIII | The Coaching Era |
| IX | The Age of Bad Roads |
| X | The Turnpike System |
| XI | Trade and Transport in the Turnpike Era |
| XII | Scientific Road-making |
| XIII | Rivers and River Transport |
| XIV | River Improvement and Industrial Expansion |
| XV | Disadvantages of River Navigation |
| XVI | The Canal Era |
| XVII | The Industrial Revolution |
| XVIII | Evolution of the Railway |
| XIX | The Railway Era |
| XX | Railway Expansion |
| XXI | Railways and the State |
| XXII | Decline of Canals |
| XXIII | Decline of Turnpikes |
| XXIV | End of the Coaching Era |
| XXV | Railway Rates and Charges |
| XXVI | The Railway System To-day |
| XXVII | What the Railways have Done |
| XXVIII | Railways a National Industry |
| XXIX | Tramways, Motor-buses and Rail-less Electric Traction |
| XXX | Cycles, Motor-vehicles and Tubes |
| XXXI | The Outlook |
| Authorities | |
| Index |
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RAILWAYS IN AMERICA.
American Railways. 310 pp. 2s. 6d. net. By post, 2s. 10d. [A reprint, with additions, of a series of articles contributed to The Times.]
RAILWAYS IN GERMANY.
German v. British Railways: With special reference to Owner's Risk and Traders' Claims. 64 pp. 1s. net. By post, 1s. 2d.
German Railways and Traders. 46 pp. 6d. net. By post, 7d. [A digest of the Board of Trade Railway Conference report on German Railways.]
RAILWAYS AND THE STATE.
The Case Against Railway Nationalisation. 264 pp. 1s. net. By post, 1s. 3d. [Published in "The Nation's Library.">[