Early Wooden Railways - Lewis, M. J. T.
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The basic principle of the railway is one of great antiquity and wooden railways were used in many European mines from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. But the most far-reaching developments, as Dr. Lewis shows in this classic and hard-to-find reissued book, originally published in 1970, took place in British coalfields.

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The basic principle of the railway is one of great antiquity and wooden railways were used in many European mines from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. But the most far-reaching developments, as Dr. Lewis shows in this classic and hard-to-find reissued book, originally published in 1970, took place in British coalfields.
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M. J. T. Lewis spent nine years at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where, after graduating in classics and acquiring a PhD, he was awarded a three-year fellowship. He spent it on research for this book, a pioneering study which is still regarded as the standard work in its field. From 1968 he worked in the Adult Education Department of the University of Hull, teaching industrial archaeology and the history of technology to evening classes and residential courses. He initiated an annual fieldwork course based at the Snowdonia National Park study centre, which ran for fifty years before falling victim to Covid. In 1976-78 he served as president, and thereafter a vice-president, of the Railway & Canal Historical Society, and from 1998 to 2018 he sat on the Early Railways Conference committee. A fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, he has published many books and papers on such diverse topics as early railways, the Welsh slate industry, and Greek and Roman engineering. He retired from teaching, though not from writing, in 2001.