The Railway Revolution: George and Robert Stephenson, by  LTC Rolt [ Lionel Thomas Caswall] , 1^st USA ed. St. Martin’s, 1962. DJ Good cond: some rubbing, some tape, tear near upper corner. Name on inner board. Writing/commentary in the margin on p.viii. 12 pp. of plates. Classic book on railway history. 

During the lifetime of two men, England was transformed from a rural land where speed of communications had been determined by the horse, to an industrial complex linked by a network of rails which spanned rivers, burrowed beneath mountains, brought London and Edinburgh within a day’s journey of each other. The two men responsible were George Stephenson and his son Robert.

A major historical work on a main component of the Industrial Revolution.