Further your research

Derek Aldcroft and Michael Freeman (eds), 'Transport in the Industrial Revolution' (1983)

Philip S. Bagwell, 'The transport revolution from 1770' (1974)

Frederick Clifford,'A history of private bill legislation' (1885)

W.T. Jackman, 'The development of transportation in modern England' (1916)

Witnesses before Parliament: a guide to the database of witnesses in committees on opposed private bills, 1771-1917 (House of Lords Record Office Memorandum No. 85, 1997)