History
RIPLEY, D.
The Peak Forest Tramway including the Peak Forest Canal
Locomotion Papers LP38
ROBBINS, Michael
Points and Signals - A Railway Historian at Work
An account of the historians approach to railways with the title referring to points and signals for their work. Includes aspects of social impact, railwaymen, infrastructure, railways at war and the writing of railway history.
ROBBINS, Michael
The Railway Age
Railways and their impact, including construction, society, management and employees, and capital. Britain, continental Europe and North America are contrasted.
ROBINSON, Eric & MUSSON, A.E.
James Watt and the Steam Revolution
A Documentary History
ROGERS, Colonel H.C.B.
Turnpike to Iron Road
Study of the development of rail transport to the end of the nineteenth century and the transition from horse to mechanised transport.
ROLT, L.T.C.
Great Engineers
Biographies of industrial revolution engineers covering Darby, Newcomen, Jessop, Murray, Maudslay, Locke, Fowler, Baker, Crompton and Lanchester.