Road Transport in Cumbria in the Nineteenth Century
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freight movement
Furness Railway
Highway District
historical road network analysis
History of road transport
Improved Road Conditions
industrialisation Britain
Lake District
Lancaster Canal
Mail Coach
nineteenth century infrastructure
Pack Horse
railway competition
Road Improvements
Road Repair
Road transport history
Rural District Council
Short Distance Traffic
Stage Coach
The Industrial Revolution
The roads and the railways
Toll Bar
Toll Gates
Toll Receipts
Toll Revenues
transport history
Trust Road
Turnpike Road
Turnpike Trusts
urbanisation impacts
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- ISBN 9781032600567
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jul 2025
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Road Transport in Cumbria in the Nineteenth Century (1975) is a detailed study of transportation by road in one region of Britain. By the middle decades of the nineteenth century, roads are being superseded by railways as the main form of land transportation, but until then roads had carried the main proportion of the nation’s passenger traffic as well as freight. Their importance in the early years of industrialisation and rapid urban and population growth are examined, as is way in which road transport interests reacted to the challenge posed by a faster, cheaper and more efficient form of transportation. In addition, as ‘through’ traffic on the roads decreased as the railways expanded, short distance traffic increased considerably.
