Railway Adventures and Anecdotes: Extending over More Than Fifty Years
History
Railway Adventures and Anecdotes: Extending over More Than Fifty Years
Railroads
Rails, Expansion of 158
Rector and his Pig. The 103
Redstart, The Black 199
Rejoinder, A smart 158
Reproof for Swearing 189
Request, A Polite 136
Ride from Boston to Providence in 1835, A 81
Robinson’s, Crabb, First Railway Journey 65
Ruling Occupation strong on Sunday 186
Safety on the Floor 147
Seat, The Safest 268
Scotch Lady and her Box 272
Scene at a Railway Junction, Extraordinary 134
,, Before a Sub-Committee on Standing Orders 176
Security for Travelling 229
Sell, A 241
Seizure of a Railway Train for Debt 208
She takes Fits 210
Shrewd Observers 20
Signalman, An Amateur 97
Singular Circumstance 125
Sleeper, A Heavy 276
Sounds, Remarkable Memory for 266
Snag’s Corners 210
Snake’s Heads 81
Snowed up on the Pacific Railway 237
Speed of Railway Engines 30
Steam defined 137
,, Pulling a Tooth by 276
Steel Rails 193
Stephenson Centenary, The 284
,, ,, George Robert Stephenson’s Address 286
,, ,, Rev. T. C. Sarjent’s Address at the 288
,, ,, Sir William Armstrong’s Address at the 284
Stephenson’s Wedding Present, George 194
Stopping a Runaway Couple 200
Stumped 293
Swindling, Ingenious 292
Taken Aback 152
Taking Him Down a Peg 252
Taste, Loss of 291
Tay Bridge Accident 245
Telegraph, Extraordinary use of the Electric 111
Ticket, A Lost 164
,, Your 271
Traffic-Taking 86
Train Stopped by Caterpillars, A 204
Travelling, Effects of Constant Railway 281
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