Author: MCGOWAN, CHRISTOPHER.
Title: THE RAINHILL TRIALS. The Greatest Contest of Industrial Britain & the Birth of Commercial Rail.
Description: London. Little, Brown, 2004, First UK edition. Printed 2004 in the U.S. by Columbia Press as "Rail, Steam, and Speed - The Rocket & the Birth of Steam Locomotives." 380 pages including notes & index. With a few b. & w. Victorian prints. Contents & cover near fine. D./w. near fine but for a slight, faint mark on front (from a snail in the garden!) not price clipped (£16.99.) 8.75" x 5.5" A review from the SLSJournal in 2005 is included. ISBN 0316724807 2004

Keywords: Rocket Robert Stephenson Liverpool & Manchester Railway Rainhill


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