Cover Image

Railway practice : A collection of working plans and practical details of construction in the public works of the most celebrated engineers ... on the several railways, canals, and other public works throughout the kingdom ... A series of original designs for every description of railway works, in various styles of architecture, completes the volume. /

Show other versions (1)

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Brees, S. C. (Samuel Charles)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : J. Williams and Co., 1847.
Series:	Making of the modern world (Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature)
Subjects:	Great Britain > Public works. Railroads > Great Britain. Railroads > Design and construction. London and Birmingham Railway. Great Western Railway (Great Britain) Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Similar Items

Railway practice : a collection of working plans and practical details of construction in the public works of the most celebrated engineers ... on the several railways, canals, and other public works throughout the kingdom, as ... the elegant aqueduct of the Lancaster Canal over the River Lune ... a series of original designs for every description of railway works, in various styles of architecture, completes the volume /
by: Brees, S. C. (Samuel Charles)
Published: (1838)

Railway practice : a collection of working plans and practical details of construction in the public works of the most celebrated engineers ... on the several railways, canals, and other public works throughout the kingdom, as ... the elegant aqueduct of the Lancaster Canal over the River Lune ... a series of original designs for every description of railway works, in various styles of architecture, completes the volume /
by: Brees, S. C. (Samuel Charles)
Published: (1837)

Appendix to Railway practice : containing a copious abstract of the whole of the evidence given upon the London and Birmingham, and Great Western railway bills, when before Parliament, properly digested and arranged, wth marginal notes : to which is added, a glossary of technical terms, used in civil engineering, explaining and illustrating every word in ordinary use : and the details of Hawthorne's celebrated locomotive engine, for the Paris and Versailles Railway /
by: Brees, S. C. (Samuel Charles)
Published: (1839)

Railway management : the proof : a third letter to George Carr Glyn, Esq., M.P., chairman of the London and North Western Railway Company /
by: Whitehead, John, of the Stock Exchange
Published: (1849)

Observations on railways, particularly on the proposed London and Birmingham Railway.
Published: (1831)

Railway practice. a collection of working plans and practical details of construction in the public works of the most celebrated engineers : comprising roads, tramroads, and railroads, bridges, aqueducts, viaducts, wharfs, warehouses, roofs, and sheds, canals, locks, sluices, & the various works on rivers, streams, &c., harbours, docks, piers and jetties, tunnels, cuttings and embankments, the several works connected with the drainage of marshes, marine sands, and the irrigation of land, water-works, gas-works, water-wheels, mills, engines, &c. &c. /
by: Brees, S. C. (Samuel Charles)
Published: (1840)

The London and Birmingham Railway guide and Birmingham and London Railway companion : containing a minute description of the railroad, and every object worthy of notice : an antiquarian and topographical account of the towns, villages, noblemen and gentlemen's seats, within ten miles of the railroad /
by: J. W. W.
Published: (1838)

The London and Birmingham Railway guide and Birmingham and London Railway companion : containing a minute description of the railroad, and every object worthy of notice : an antiquarian and topographical account of the towns, villages, noblemen and gentlemen's seats, within ten miles of the railroad /
by: J. W. W.
Published: (1838)

The Humble petition of the undersigned subscribers to an intended railway between Birmingham and London.
Published: (1832)

Acts relating to the London and Birmingham Railway : viz. 3 Gulielmi IV, Cap. xxxvi, 5 & 6 Gulielmi IV, Cap. lvi, and 1 Victoriæ, Cap. lxiv : with a general index.
Published: (1837)

The London, Birmingham, Liverpool, & Manchester Railway guide : giving a description of the entire route from London to Birmingham, : with the fares & rates, and the time of starting from London to Birmingham.
Published: (1838)

The iron road book and railway companion : from London to Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool : containing an account of the towns, villages, mansions, &c. on each side of the line, times of arrival and departure of the trains at the several stations, coaches and omnibuses to the towns in the vicinity : with tables of distances and fares from station to station &c. &c. /
by: Coghlan, Francis
Published: (1838)

The working and management of an English railway /
by: Findlay, George, 1829-1893
Published: (1891)

Case of the opponents of that portion of the "South Union, or Manchester and Tamworth Railway" which is to authorize the making of a railway from Stone to Tamworth : and of the "Birmingham and Derby Branch Railway" which is to authorize the making of a railway from Tamworth to Rugby.
Published: (1837)

Stokers and pokers, or, The London and North-Western railway, the electric telegraph, and the Railway Clearing-house /
by: Head, Francis Bond, Sir, 1793-1875
Published: (1849)

The history of the railway connecting London and Birmingham, containing its progress from the commencement : to which are added a popular description of the locomotive engine and a sketch of the geological features of the line /
by: Lecount, Peter, 1794-1852
Published: (1839)

North Western Railway : rules and regulations to be observed by officers and men on the North Western Railway : October, 1849.
Published: (1849)

The history of the London & North Western Railway /
by: Steel, Wilfred L.
Published: (1914)

Railway competition : a letter to George Carr Glynn, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the London & North Western Railway.
Published: (1849)

Dunstable Railway Company : at an extraordinary general meeting of proprietors of the Dunstable Railway, held at the Euston Station, on Friday, the 13th November, 1846.
Published: (1846)

Drake's road book of the London and Birmingham and Grand Junction Railways : being a complete guide to the entire line of railway from London to Liverpool and Manchester, illustrated by accurate maps, and numerous wood cuts, and engravings on steel : to which is appended the visiter's [as printed] guide to Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester.
by: Drake, James, active 1825
Published: (1839)

Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway : case of the Midland Counties Railway Company as opponents of the projected line from Tamworth to Rugby.
Published: (1837)

An act for making a railway from Bristol to join the London and Birminghan Railway near London, to be called "The Great Western Railway," with branches therefrom to the towns of Bradford and Trowbridge, in the county of Wilts.
Published: (1835)

Are railways a good investment? : the question considered by an examination of the last half-yearly statements of the six leading companies /
by: Cleveland, Robert Frank
Published: (1848)

Remarks on proposed railways : more particulary on that between Birmingham & London /
by: Investigator

London and Birmingham Railway : at a special general meeting of proprietors of the London and Birmingham Railway Company, held at the Euston Station, London, on the 14th of June 1839 ...
Published: (1839)

The Midland Counties' Railway Company : with topographical descriptions of the country through which the line passes, and time, fare, and distance tables, corrected to the 24th August : also, complete guides to the London and Birmingham, and Birmingham and Derby Junction railways.
Published: (1840)

The Midland Counties' Railway companion : with topographical descriptions of the country through which the line passes, and time, fare, and distance tables, corrected to the 24th August : also, complete guides to the London and Birmingham, and Birmingham and Derby Junction railways.
Published: (1840)

History of the Great Western Railway /
by: MacDermot, Edward Terence, 1873-
Published: (1927)

London and Birmingham Railway : at a special general meeting of proprietors of the London and Birmingham Railway Company, held at the Euston Station, London, on the 14th June, 1839. George carr Glyn, Esq. in the chair.
Published: (1839)

The probable effects of the proposed railway from Birmingham to London considered.
Published: (1831)

An act to alter the line of the Great Western Railway and to amend the act relating thereto.
Published: (1836)

A digest of the realities of the Great Western Railway /
by: Court, M. H. (Major Henry)
Published: (1848)

The London and Birmingham Railway : with the home and country scenes on each side of the line, including sketches of Kenilworth, Leamington, Warwick, Guy's Cliff, Stratford, &c. /
by: Roscoe, Thomas, 1791-1871
Published: (1839)

Great Western & Newbury and South Western and Newbury Railway bills : the case of the promoters of the Great Western and Newbury bill.
Published: (1844)

Bradshaw's descriptive guide to the London & South Western Railway : containing a compendious account of all the many places and objects of interest along the line, together with the distances from the principal stations, and a complete guide to the towns of Gosport, Portsmouth, and Southampton, as well as the picturesque ruins in the vicinity of each and the attractive scenes adjacent : to which is added, The tourist's companion to the Isle of Wight /
Published: (1845)

Extracts from the minutes of evidence given before the Committee of the House of Commons on the Great Western Railway bill.
Published: (1834)

Proofs that the two best railways in the world are ... bubble speculations.
Published: (1834)

Great Western, Bristol & Exeter and South Devon railways' time & fare tables : London to Plymouth, and intermediate lines & branches.
Published: (1850)

Extracts from the minutes of evidence, given before the Committee of the Lords, on the London and Birmingham Railway Bill, in June, 1832 : shewing the great advantage to landowners and the public, of this mode of communication in general.
Published: (1833)