Stokers and Pokers, Or, The London and North-Western Railway, the Electric Telegraph, and the Railway Clearing-House |
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... charges on their transit , our engineers , in tracing the lines for our great arterial railways , were but too often looked upon as magicians , evil genii , or unclean spirits , whose unearthly object was to fright the land from its ...
... charges on their transit , our engineers , in tracing the lines for our great arterial railways , were but too often looked upon as magicians , evil genii , or unclean spirits , whose unearthly object was to fright the land from its ...
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... charges to be levied by them on every passenger or ton of goods would , on a given traffic , be as follows : - Charge per mile on a railway which ought to have cost 15,000l . per mile • • Ditto on a railway which has unnecessarily been ...
... charges to be levied by them on every passenger or ton of goods would , on a given traffic , be as follows : - Charge per mile on a railway which ought to have cost 15,000l . per mile • • Ditto on a railway which has unnecessarily been ...
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... charge of the party , jumped overboard , and then , swimming with a rope in his mouth , he towed the raft to the foot of the nearest working shaft , through which he and his men were safely lifted up into daylight , or , as it is termed ...
... charge of the party , jumped overboard , and then , swimming with a rope in his mouth , he towed the raft to the foot of the nearest working shaft , through which he and his men were safely lifted up into daylight , or , as it is termed ...
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... charge of the very harlequin who whipped away , and who , as its guardian angel , hastily muttering the words " Now then , Sir ! " stands beckoning him to advance . The picture of the departure of one of the large trains from the ...
... charge of the very harlequin who whipped away , and who , as its guardian angel , hastily muttering the words " Now then , Sir ! " stands beckoning him to advance . The picture of the departure of one of the large trains from the ...
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... charge for telegraph and porter was 13s . 8d . About four minutes after the up - train has been authorised by the air - pipe to leave Camden Station , the guard who stands listening for it at the Euston tunnel , just as a deaf man puts ...
... charge for telegraph and porter was 13s . 8d . About four minutes after the up - train has been authorised by the air - pipe to leave Camden Station , the guard who stands listening for it at the Euston tunnel , just as a deaf man puts ...
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