 Stephenson, however, was never prepared to produce locomotives for James to demonstrate to potential clients and no sales were made through his agency.In 1822-3, James spent time in the King’s Bench Prison in Southwark for debt (during which time he wrote a scheme for a network of railways in the south of England) and later in 1823 he was adjudged bankrupt.The distractions caused by this, by his involvement in so many projects simultaneously, and by bouts of illness, tended to prevent James from personally bringing to fruition any of the railway projects he had helped to initiate.