1st Edition

Road Transport in Cumbria in the Nineteenth Century

By L.A. Williams Copyright 1975
270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

Road Transport in Cumbria in the Nineteenth Century (1975) is a detailed study of transportation by road in one region of Britain. By the middle decades of the nineteenth century, roads are being superseded by railways as the main form of land transportation, but until then roads had carried the main proportion of the nation’s passenger traffic as well as freight. Their importance in the early... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Road and Bridge Administration  3. Road Transport Developments in the Pre-Railway Period  4. Competition for Traffic  5. Some Problems of Urban Growth  6. Trust Dissolution and its Aftermath  7. Conclusion

Biography

L.A. Williams