As a preliminary to this interesting story, the author sketches in bold outline the principle developments which took place for mediaeval times till the 18th century, during which transport struggled over the execrable roads and tracks of the country's communications. There was, however, an event which could well be said to herald the advent of modern travel, that was the construction of three miles of road by a blind man In 1765. Some 150 years later, the Golden Age of Railways was terminated by the outbreak of the First World War, two events which served to mark the beginning and the end of the period surveyed in these pages