Introduction -- 1. Trade, transport and coal 1767-1815 -- 2. 'Rails best adapted to the road': cast-iron rails and their alternatives in Britain 1767-1832 -- 3. Canal feeders, quarry railways and ...

This was not so much an expression of youthful adventure as a more prosaic instinct: it was about sounds and smells, machinery and timetables, gauges and networks and an ever-expanding glossary of ...