Light Railways at Home and Abroad Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Light Railways at Home and AbroadLight railways postulate greater facilities for promotion, cheaper construction, simpler working, and more lenient conditions generally than are applied to ordinary or standard railways; but, as pointed out in Chapter I., light and standard railways only differ from each other in degree, and no sharp line can be drawn between them. We are all feeling our way in the matter Of light railways, and the treat ment of a subject which is more or less unformed and undefined presents peculiar difficulties. The late Mr Corrie L. Thompson's Catalogue of Books, Reports, Papers, and Articles relating to Light Railways, 1895, was a most useful guide to a literature which is necessarily scattered and incomplete. To sift this information, and to collect and arrange useful matter in a convenient and readable form was the result I aimed at.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.