7254 Early Railways: Review and Summary of Recent Research

Britain led the world in the development of railways and surviving buildings and structures of railways from the earliest period of their existence are of national and often international significance. This project concerns early railways (as defined in section 2) which have been the subject of renewed research interest in recent years. As a consequence of their date (mostly pre-1830), surviving assets of early railways frequently fall within categories of buildings or structures that need to be assessed for specia...