A

PRACTICAL TREATISE

ON

RAIL-ROADS,

AND INTERIOR COMMUNICATION IN GENERAL.

CONTAINING

NUMEROUS EXPERIMENTS ON THE POWERS OF
THE IMPROVED LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES:

AND

TABLES OF THE COMPARATIVE COST OF CONVEYANCE ON CANALS,
RAILWAYS, AND TURNPIKE ROADS.

THIRD EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS.

Illustrated by several New Engravings.

BY NICHOLAS WOOD,

COLLIERY VIEWER, MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL
ENGINEERS, ETC.

"Should we live to see fully developed all the powers and energies of this system,
we have no doubt we shall also live to see it recognised, as one of the very greatest
benefits which either philosophy or art has ever conferred on mankind."— Quarterly
Review.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS,

PATERNOSTER-ROW..