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Samuel Sidney. Rides on Railways
Rides on Railways
Table of Contents
PREFACE
LIST OF ENGRAVINGS
LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY
EUSTON STATION
THE MIXED TRAIN
CAMDEN STATION
AYLESBURY
WOBURN AND BEDFORD
THE BUCKS RAILWAY
BANBURY
OXFORD
CONSTITUTION AND COSTUME OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
WOLVERTON STATION
BLISWORTH, NORTHAMPTON
WEEDON
RUGBY AND ITS RAILWAYS
“ARNOLD AND HIS SCHOOL.”
COVENTRY TO BIRMINGHAM,
BIRMINGHAM
HEALTH AND EDUCATION
WARWICK, LEAMINGTON, KENILWORTH, STRATFORD ON AVON
SOHO. WATT, BOULTON, MURDOCH
THE BLACK COUNTRY. WALSALL, DUDLEY, WEDNESBURY, DARLASTON
STAFFORD
LIVERPOOL
MANCHESTER
MANCHESTER MANUFACTURES
THE ROAD TO YORKSHIRE
YORKSHIRE
LEEDS
THROUGH LINCOLNSHIRE TO SHEFFIELD
SHEFFIELD
DERBYSHIRE
FROM CHESHIRE TO NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE
THE LAKES
HOME
NOTES
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Samuel Sidney
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Travelling in a carriage on a truck is by no means safe: some years since Lady Zetland and her maids were nearly burned to death, sparks from the engine having set fire to their luggage. The maid threw herself off the truck, and had an extraordinary escape.
The arrangements of the boxes for carrying horses are now very complete, and when once a horse, not of a naturally nervous disposition, has been accustomed to travel by rail, it will often be found better to take him on to hunt at a distance than to send him overnight to a strange place with all the disadvantages of change of food, and temptations to neglect in the way of the groom. It is, however, a class of traffic to which few of the railway companies have paid much attention; yet, in our opinion, capable of great development under a system of moderate fares, and day tickets. The rates are not always stated in the time tables, but on the London and North Western a day ticket for a horse costs fourteen shillings for thirty miles.
