Talk:Transport during the Industrial Revolution

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[edit] Unsatisfactory article

As it stands this is a very unsatisfactory article. It should either be merged with Industrial Revolution or greatly expanded to provide an overvierw of canals, turnpike trusts, and railways. Peterkingiron 22:30, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

In addition the lack of water transport had little effect of the long established textile industries. These could manage quite well with road transport, sicne they had a high value to weight ratio. The materials that needed water trasnport were heavy low value commodities, particualrly coal, but also pottery, iron, malt, etc. Peterkingiron 21:36, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Major expansion

In the light of my own comments (above), I have undertaken a major expansion of this article to deal with the main themes, referring in turn to other major articles. This article is intended to provide an overview of the subject, and should thus not be expanded to any great extent. In several places I have left dates vague - correction of these will be welcome. I have not cited a 'main' article on turnpikes because the present article is an interanational one, from which the British elements probably need to be extracted; not for river navigations, becasue there appears to be none, except as an introduction to canals. It may be that a few more sentences on the expandion of the rail network would be useful, but I am not an export on that. Peterkingiron 18:14, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Winter Roads

While the material inserted under the above heading is in principle accurate, it relates to Sweden (and possibly other northern countries), whereas the rest of the article is about Britain. Is this appropriate? Possibly the title to the article is wrong and should be Transport during the British Industrial Revolution. I would appreciate comments before I make changes. Peterkingiron 20:17, 1 June 2007 (UTC)