Railway Adventures and Anecdotes: Extending over More Than Fifty Years
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Railway Adventures and Anecdotes: Extending over More Than Fifty Years
Railroads
Chase after a Runaway Engine, A 136
Child’s Idea on Railways, A 179
Child, Remarkable Rescue of a 249
Claim for goodwill for a Cow killed on the Railway 268
Clergy, Appealing to the 83
Clever, Quite too 181
Coach _versus_ Railway Accidents 198
Compensation for Land 106
,, A Widow’s Claim for 242
Competition, Early Railway 27
,, For Passengers 167
,, Goods 135
Conductor, A Wide-awake 184
Coincidences, Remarkable 291
Cook’s Railway Excursions, Origin of 87
Cool Impudence and Dishonesty 248
Coolness, A Little Boy’s 258
Constable, The Electric 92
Contracts, Expensive 263
Contractor, An Accommodating 113
Contractors and the Blotting Pad, Rival 99
Contrast, National 171
Conversion of the Gauge 243
Counsel, The bothered Queen’s 247
Courting on a Railway thirty miles an hour 159
Crimea, The First Railway in the 156
Croydon. It’s 271
Curious Classification, A 294
Custom of the Country, The 234
Cuvier’s Description of the Locomotive 21
Damages easily adjusted 127
Day. The Great Railway Mania 114
Death. Faithful unto 153
Decision. A Quick 95
Decoy Trunk, The 224
Deodand. The 88
Difficulties encountered in making Surveys 31
Difficulty solved, A 181
Discovery, A Great 144
Discussion, An Unfortunate 89
Disguise, Duty in 283
Dissatisfied Passengers 236
Doctor and the Officers, The 246
Dog Ticket 91
Down Brakes, or Force of Habit 192
Drink. That accursed 274
Drinking from the Wrong Bottle 262
Driving a last spike 224
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