Early Railways 4 (Papers from the Fourth International Early Railways Conference, 2008)

xviii, 366pp, with some black and white illustrations.  Glazed pictorial boards. 8vo. Boards a little shelf worn else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. Twenty two edited papers presented at the second international early railways conference in 2001, fully referenced and peer-reviewed,  The papers represent the results of recent research into the formative years of railway development in the UK, Europe, India and Australia and elsewhere.  Specific papers include Dr Peter King on the First Shropshire Railways; Dr Winifred Stokes on Shareholders in the Clarence Railway; Roger Dursley on the Durham Bluff Railway; Jim Rees on the Sans Pareil Model, etc.