The First Books on Railway Engineering are Published

About the same time as the the first publically subscribed passenger railroad, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, opened for business British engineer Thomas Tredgold issued  A Practical Treatise on Rail-Roads and Carriages, Shewing the Principles of Estimating their Strength, Proportions, Expense, and Annual Produce . . . (1825), and British colliery and steam locomotive engineer Nicholas Wood issued A Practical Treatise on Rail-Roads and Interior Communication in General, with Original Experiments, and Tables of the Comparative Value of Canals and Rail-Roads (1825). These books, both of which were published in London, were the first comprehensive works on railway engineering. Notably at the early date they were published neither of the book discussed carrying passengers or railroads; only freight.

As railroads and railroad networks developed during the 1830s, railroad transportation eventually enabled the wide and relatively rapid distribution of mass-produced printed matter such as The Penny Magazine.