Category: Travel Writing
Travelling Two Hundred and One Hundred Years ago—The Liverpool and Manchester Railway—The First Locomotive, “Rocket”—The Grand Junction, London and Birmingham, and Birmingham and Manchester Railways—The Midland Railway—Early Gradients, Increase in their Steepness and in the Po...
Arrived in Italy, either by the Mont Cenis Railway, or by that through the Tunnel of the Alps, we have in front of us a Peninsula which juts for an extent (taking Susa as the ex...
19. CHAPTER XII.It is hardly necessary to say that the great rival to the Mont Cenis or Summit Railway is the railway that is to be laid through the tunnel, which, in the official documents of...
16. CHAPTER IX.England is naturally in advance of all other countries as regards railways in her possessions and colonies. There is not one of them in which the system has not made some advanc...
18. CHAPTER XI.If the reader will refer to page 16 _ante_, he will see that we left an imaginary travelling companion of ours, to refresh himself at one of the innumerable restaurants of Paris...
11. CHAPTER IV.Passengers, luggage, horses, carriages, dogs, merchandise, minerals and live stock constitute the whole of the traffic, as well as the whole of the receipts of railway companies...
12. CHAPTER V.We had written, in the previous chapter, all that relates to the Post Office, in the belief that the relations between that department and the railways had been, during recent y...
10. CHAPTER III.Thanks to the very valuable tables of railway statistics prepared by Mr. John Cleghorn, the secretary of the North-Eastern Railway, and compiled from the returns of the Board of...
20. CHAPTER XIII.By some authorities, the great tunnel of the Alps is called the “Mont Cenis Tunnel.” But this appellation is a misnomer, as the tunnel is as far as 15 miles distant from the Cen...
15. CHAPTER VIII.READER! have you ever travelled on a locomotive? We believe not; at least there have been very few of you of the male sex, none of you of the gentler—for there is a law on railw...
13. CHAPTER VI.However vastly the United Kingdom has been benefited by railways, we shall show presently that it is far otherwise with those who have invested their money in their construction...
14. CHAPTER VII.The locomotive is like the horse. The latter, with long thin legs and slight frame—at least made so by training—is the race horse. His pace for a length of not more than a mile...
9. CHAPTER II.From the day that the Americans became masters of California, they had always had it in their heads to join it by the best possible roadway to the old states of the Union; and i...
17. CHAPTER X.The progress of Canada—we speak of the whole dominion recently created by the confederation of Upper and Lower Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick[110]—has been marvellous, a...
8. CHAPTER I.TRAVELLING TWO HUNDRED AND ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO—THE LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY—THE FIRST LOCOMOTIVE, “ROCKET”—THE GRAND JUNCTION, LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM, AND BIRMINGHAM AN...
7. CHAPTER XIV.Reply of Robert Stephenson, Esq., M.P., President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, to Observations in the Second Report of the Postmaster-General. Delivered at the Meeting...
1. CHAPTER I.Travelling Two Hundred and One Hundred Years ago—The Liverpool and Manchester Railway—The First Locomotive, “Rocket”—The Grand Junction, London and Birmingham, and Birmingham an...
2. CHAPTER II.3. CHAPTER VI.5. CHAPTER XI.6. CHAPTER XIII.4. CHAPTER X.