$176
London and Birmingham Railway 1841, a rare thumb-indexed pocket book of statistics of traffic and staff compiled by (or for) H. P. Bruyers, superintendent of the London and Birmingham Railway, giving a weekly breakdown of income by number of passengers, amount of fares, parcels, horses, carriages, dogs and totals for each of the twenty stations between London (Euston) and Birmingham (Curzon St.), including Harrow (now Harrow & Wealdstone), Watford (now Watford Junction), King's Langley, Berkamstead, Tring, Rugby and Coventry; a named list of the company's servants station by station: Clerks, Guards, Porters, Lost Luggage, Ladies Attendant, Police and Jumper; and inventory of the company's ninety locomotives by number, maker and driver's name; marbled paper edges, brass clasp, original green leather covers gilt-stamped 1841, H.P. Bruyers, London & Birmingham Railway , his pencil inscription on the front page. Note: The London and Birmingham Railway was the first mainline railway in England, opened 1838.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2007-03-24
