This however was denied by Peter Lecount, one of the L & BR engineers, who wrote in his'History of the Railway connecting London and Birmingham'( 1839 ), page 48 : " It is not because locomotives cannot draw a train of carriages up this incline that a fixed engine and endless rope are used, for they can and have done so, but because the Company are restricted, by their Act of Parliament, from running locomotive engines nearer London than Camden Town . " The railway opened from Euston on 20 July 1837; the stationary engines and rope haulage did not commence until 27 September, and handled all trains from 14 October 1837.
