Stokers and Pokers and High-Ways and Dry-WaysPublished in the year 1968, Stokers and Pokers is a valuable contribution to the field of Economics. |
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Chapter I On the Construction of a Railway | 11 |
Chapter II On the Maintenance of the Permanent Way | 33 |
Chapter III The Trains Euston | 38 |
Chapter IV The Railway Carriages | 48 |
Chapter V Lost Luggage Office | 53 |
Chapter VI Parcel Delivery Office | 56 |
Chapter VII The Locomotive EngineCamden | 61 |
Chapter IX Wolverton | 81 |
Chapter X Letters and Newspapers | 92 |
Chapter XI Crewe | 100 |
Chapter XII A Railway Town | 109 |
Chapter XIII The Electric Telegraph | 113 |
Chapter XIV The Railway ClearingHouse | 134 |
Chapter XV Moral | 144 |
Appendix | 157 |
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