Pamphlets in support of national uniformity of gauge and the report of Her Majesty's Gauge Commissioners.

Format:

Book

Series:

Making of the modern world

Making of the Modern World

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Railroad gauges.

Railroad gauges--Great Britain.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

London : Collected, bound, and sold by J. Cundall, [1846?]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Uniformity of gauge / Wyndham Harding

Railway eccentrics / Vigil

Broad gauge / £.s, d.

Fallacies of the broken gauge / Fellow of two royal societies

Origin and results of the clearing system

Dialogues of the gauges

Narrow gauge / Herbert S. Melville

Railway traveller's reasons for adopting uniformity of gauge

Unity of the iron network / Thornton Hunt

Reply to "Observations" of the Great Western Railway Company

Letter to the directors of the Great Western Railway Company / Old carrier

Few of the miseries of the break of gauge at Gloucester

Travellers between Birmingham and Bristol ... are informed that the following petition lies for signature at the stations on the line.

Notes:

Consists of 11 pamphlets each with separate t.p. and 2 broadsides.

Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 34724.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements. s2005 miunns

OCLC:

65281369

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.