xiv, 368pp, with colour plate frontispiece and colour and black and white illustrations in text. Glazed pictorial boards. 8vo. Boards a little shelf worn else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.
Twenty one edited papers presented at the fifth international early railways conference in 2012, fully referenced and peer-reviewed, The papers represent the results of recent research into the formative years of railway development in the UK, Europe, India and Australia and elsewhere. Specific papers include Dr Peter King on 17th Century Footrails; Dr David Gwyn on Railways in Gwynedd, 1759-1848; Andy Guy on Atypical Early Railways in Britain; etc.
