Early Main Line Railways 2 An invitation to subscribe

Following the success of the first Early Main Line Railways conference, a second conference was held at York in June 2018. The papers are due for publication in late 2019, with a considerable discount to subscribers - £36.00 plus postage and packing. The full retail price will be £55.00 plus postage and packing

MANCHESTER TERMINUS< LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY,, ICE Contents: Savage- The Work of the Railway Heritage Trust; Hodgkins-Railway directors- who they were and what they did; Odlyzko- Dionysius Lardner: the denigrated sage of early railways; Northover- Consultants in planning and specifying early main line railways; Clarke- Wellington businessmen and the main line railway; New- Railways to Portsmouth; Lewis- Science and the Early Main Line Railway; Murfitt- The English Patent system and early main line railway technology; Caprez- The Early history of the Swiss South Eastern railway; Cox & O’Dwyer- Dublin Belfast Mainline 1837-1857; Parry-Brymbo and the creation of the North Wales Mineral Railway; Longworth- Early Australian Mainline Railways and Mutually Beneficial Exchange; Mukherjee- The East Indian Railway and the Bengali Environment; Austin- The Literacy rate and the arrival of railways; Hopkins- The Work of Samuel Russell-documenting the railway in print; Gwyn- Many shall go about- the opening of the and Manchester Railway; Minnis & PBrown- Architects, engineers and contractors: a re-appraisal of aspects of 19th century railway architecture; ones ]- Rise and fall: steam and the suspension bridge ; Chrimes- A safe pair of hands: Joseph Locke 1824-1839;

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