Rides on Railways eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 349 pages of information about Rides on Railways.

Rides on Railways eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 349 pages of information about Rides on Railways.

LIST OF ENGRAVINGS.

Euston square, London
Harrow-on-the-hill
viaduct over the river Colne, near Watford
looking from the hill above Boxmoor station towards Berkhamsted
Berkhamsted station
Leighton Buzzard
Denbigh hall bridge
the Wolverton viaduct
bridge in the Blisworth embankment
view from top of Kilsby tunnel, looking towards Rugby
Coventry
the SHERBORNE viaduct, near Coventry
the Avon viaduct
the Aston viaduct
Aston hall
Newton road station, near Birmingham
the railway near Penkridge
Stafford
view near Whitmore
vale-royal viaduct
excavation at Hartford
viaduct over the Mersey and Mersey and Irwell canal, Kingston
the Dutton viaduct
the Warrington viaduct

LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.

According to Mr. Punch, one of the greatest authorities of the day on all such subjects, the nearest way to Euston Station is to take a cab; but those who are not in a hurry may take advantage of the omnibuses that start from Gracechurch Street and Charing Cross, traversing the principal thoroughfares and calling at the George and Blue Boar, Holborn, the Green Man and Still, Oxford Street, and the Booking Offices in Regent Circus.

Euston, including its dependency, Camden Station, is the greatest railway port in England, or indeed in the world.  It is the principal gate through which flows and reflows the traffic of a line which has cost more than twenty-two millions sterling; which annually earns more than two millions and a-half for the conveyance of passengers, and merchandise, and live stock; and which directly employs more than ten thousand servants, beside the tens of thousands to whom, in mills or mines, in ironworks, in steam-boats and coasters, it gives indirect employment.  What London is to the world, Euston is to Great Britain:  there is no part of the country to which railway communication has extended, with the exception of the Dover and Southampton lines, which may not be reached by railway conveyance from Euston station.

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