Railway adventures and anecdotes, ed. by R. PikeRichard Pike 1884 |
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Page 29 - We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's Ricochet Rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.
Page 37 - This snorting little animal, which I felt rather inclined to pat, was then harnessed to our carriage, and Mr. Stephenson having taken me on the bench of the engine with him. we started at about ten miles an hour.
Page 71 - The blower whistled, the steam blew off in vapory clouds, the pace increased, the passengers shouted, the engine gained on the horse, soon it lapped him; the silk was plied, the race was neck and neck, nose and nose. Then the engine passed the horse, and a great hurrah hailed the victory.
Page 70 - Mills — and met the engine at the Relay House on its way back. From this point it was determined to have a race home ; and the start being even, away went horse and engine, the snort of the one and the puff of the other keeping time and time.
Page 92 - Special train just left. It contained two thieves: one named Oliver Martin, who is dressed in black, <crape on his hat ; the other named Fiddler Dick, in black trousers and light blouse. Both in the third compartment of the first second-class carriage.
Page 21 - Malta, four or five of which might have been the means of extending double lines of iron railway from London to Edinburgh, Glasgow, Holyhead, Milford, Falmouth, Yarmouth, Dover, and Portsmouth. A reward of a single thousand would have supplied coaches and other vehicles, of various degrees of speed, with the best tackle for readily turning out ; and we might, ere this, have witnessed our...
Page 85 - The strength of Britain," he would say, " lies in her iron and coal beds, and the locomotive is destined, above all other agencies, to bring it forth. The lord chancellor now sits upon a bag of wool ; but wool has long since ceased to be emblematical of the staple commodity of England. He ought rather to sit upon a bag of coals, though it might not prove quite so comfortable a seat.
Page 39 - You cannot conceive what that sensation of cutting the air was ; the motion is as smooth as possible too. I could either have read or written, and as it was I stood up and, with my bonnet off,
Page 60 - ... perpendicular height, — saw the rocks excavated, and the gigantic power of man penetrating through miles of the solid mass, 'and gaining a great, a lasting, an almost perennial conquest over the powers of nature...
Page 31 - ... any gale of wind which would affect the traffic on the Mersey would render it impossible to set off a locomotive engine, either by poking of the fire, or keeping up the pressure of the steam till the boiler was ready to burst.