The Liverpool and Manchester Railway: an operating history

摘要

When the Liverpool & Manchester Railway was opened in 1830 the company and its staffhad to work out how to run a double-track railway between two commercial centres when there was no existing rule book to follow. Here, the author has trawled archives and digitised newspapers to uncover just how the railway was run and how it responded to the demand for its facilities. The result is a readable comprehensive review and examination of the railway's operating systems during its independent existence. In presentation the book appears rather old fashioned, in that the text is printed on matt paper while the illustrations are reproduced on gloss coated paper. The latter mostly comprise contemporary lithographs; reproduced well enough, they are rather small and would have benefited from being given more space than the 16 unnumbered pages allow.