Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,364 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

National Pneumatic Railway Association

From Graces Guide

1835 Prospectus issued for £200,000. Based on the system of Atmospheric Railway by Professor Faraday and Dr. Lardner.[1]

1837 Henry Pinkus, inventor of the Atmospheric Railway arranged for his company, the National Pneumatic Railway Association to test the system with the Birmingham, Bristol and Thames Junction Railway using half a mile of that line beside the Kensington Canal but this trial was unsuccessful.

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Sources of Information

  1. Morning Post - Tuesday 05 May 1835
  • The Engineer 1901/12/27