Title A quite impossible proposal : how not to build a railway / Andrew Drummond.

Publication Info.	Edinburgh : Origin, 2020.
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Contents	Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. 'A Right to Improved Communications' -- 2. 'We Must Speak the Truth to All Men' -- 3. 'Our Trusty and Well-Beloved Commissioners' -- 4. 'The Railway Would Be the Making of the Place' -- 5. 'Encumbering Rocks and Great Hilliness' -- 6. 'Bodies of Distinguished Strangers' -- 7. 'The Day for Promises, Evasion and Trifling is Past' -- 8. 'A Railway Terminus on the Moon' -- 9. 'Zeal and Enterprise' -- 10. 'Imprisonment With or Without Hard Labour'
	11. 'Unsatisfactory from the Very Beginning' -- 12. 'The Luxury of a Steam-Tramway' -- 13. 'Pestilential Robber Barons' -- 14. 'Difficulties in Paying the Fare' -- 15. 'Not an Economic Proposition' -- 16. 'National Duty and National Policy' -- Appendices -- Chronology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Picture Sections
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Subject	Railroads and state -- Scotland -- Highlands -- History -- 20th century.
	Railroads and state.
	Scotland -- Highlands.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Railroads -- Social aspects -- Scotland -- Highlands -- History -- 20th century.
	Railroads -- Social aspects.
	Railroads.
	Highlands (Scotland) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	Social conditions.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: 9781788852715
	Print version: 1912476886 9781912476886 (OCoLC)1137736125
ISBN	1788852710 (electronic book)
	9781788852715 (electronic book)
	9781912476886
	1912476886

Title A quite impossible proposal : how not to build a railway / Andrew Drummond.

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