Most historians recognize the work of three engineers as being the men who developed the railways from slow, lumbering colliery lines into fast, intercity routes. Two are very well known: Robert Steph
This is the story of how for more than a hundred years steam power played a vital role in the development of road transport. It all began with tentative attempts to build steam carriages by pioneers s
This is the story of a thousand mile-long trip around England by canal. At times the journey took the author out into the beautiful countryside, and elsewhere the canal crept round the edge of old ind
