Table of Contents

?Introduction /The First Railways /The Wooden Waggonway /Iron, Water and Rope /Strong Steam: the First Locomotives /The Great Theatre /Rainhill and Liverpool /Conclusion /Index

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An important book that brings to life a little known piece of transport history.

About the Author

Andy Guy is a former researcher at Beamish museum and an expert of the early railways of North-East England. He is the author of ‘Steam and Speed: Railways of Tyne and Wear from the Earliest Days’. Jim Rees is a former Curator of Rail Vehicles at the National Railway Museum, York, and is now Special Projects Manager at Beamish, The North of England Open-Air Museum. He is an expert on early railways and is co-editor (with Andy Guy) of ‘Early Railways’.