The Railways of Scotland Their Present Position. with a Glance at Their Past and a Forecast of Their Future. (1890)

Aided by both family connections and the support of the senior staff at the Caledonian Railway, Acworth reviews Scotland's 3,000 miles (5,000 km) of largely single-track railroad, with acute observations of the financial sense or otherwise of existing and proposed schemes. The Railway Race To The North is not long over, and this is a good time to address the "State of the Nation".