This book argues for the significance of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in Britain's industrialisation.

The first English translation of the most comprehensive and detailed work on the development, construction, finance, and operation of early American railroads a

By comparison with their English counterparts, Scottish nineteenth-century railways have suffered from a degree of neglect by economic historians. Most of the e

Although economists have long recognised industrial districts as one of the key features of many economies, it is only recently that attention has been focused