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The present work,
though it would claim to be regarded as a book complete in itself, is, to
this extent, a supplement to the larger book which I published last year
on the Railways of England— that it avoids dealing with matters which are
there described, and that it owes its existence to the favour with which
the public received its elder brother.
Once more I have to acknowledge my obligations to the
officials of the different lines for the ready assistance they have given
me, and for the information which in almost every case they have freely
placed at my disposal. More especially I must express my gratitude to Mr.
George Graham, who, as one of Joseph Locke's assistants, started the first
passenger train upon the Caledonian Railway, of which for seven-and-thirty
years he has now been chief engineer, not only for a copy of his privately
printed work on the origin of the Caledonian, but also for the unwearied
kindness which has opened to me the stores of railway knowledge garnered for half a century by a
marvellously accurate and retentive memory. To Mr. Drummond also, the
locomotive superintendent of the same line, who has placed unreservedly at
my disposal a large mass of curious and interesting old railway documents
collected by him, I would tender my most hearty thanks. Not a little of
the detail in the first chapter has, I may add, been filled in by
tradition, handed down in my own family from the time when my grandfather
was one of the original promoters and directors of the Monkland and
Kirkintilloch Railway. To Mr. Arrol also, the builder of the Forth Bridge,
I must express my thanks for the kindness which led him, not only to
explain to me some of the methods adopted in the execution of his
wonderful work, but also to look through and correct the proof sheets of
what I have written on the subject.
Contents
A Collection of the Public
General Acts relating to Railways in Scotland
Including the Companies, Lands and Railway Clauses Consolidation
(Scotland) Acts 1830 - 1861 with General Index (Fifth edition)
(1847) (pdf)
Official Railway Map of Scotland
Prepared by the Railway Clearing House, London 1912 (pdf)
The 2020
Railway Map of Scotland
From
Project Mapping (pdf) |
