Union Pacific Railroad—South Austrian and Alta Italia—Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean—Orleans—Mileage, Cost, and Receipts of French Railways—London Traffic—London and North-Western Railway 17 CHAPTER III. Railways of the United Kingdom—Coal and Iron 40 CHAPTER IV. Railways and the Post Office—Speed on Railways 73 CHAPTER V. Railways and the Post Office—_continued_ 115 CHAPTER VI. Railway Receipts, Working Expenses, and Profits in the United Kingdom—Delays and Accidents 147 CHAPTER VII. Horses and Engines—Crewe 186 CHAPTER VIII. A Journey on the Locomotive 210 CHAPTER IX. Indian Railways 245 CHAPTER X. Canadian and Australian Railways—The Railways of other British Colonies 301 CHAPTER XI. Paris to St. Michel—“Above Sea-Level”—The Holborn Viaduct—The Mont Cenis Railway 316 CHAPTER XII. Tunnels, Ancient and Modern 358 CHAPTER XIII. The Great Tunnel of the Alps—Tunnel Ventilation—Ventilation in the Metropolitan Railway 401 CHAPTER XIV. Italy—The Eastern Mails—Sicily 427 APPENDICES. APPENDIX, No. 1. PAGE Report by Mr. Edward Page, Inspector-General of Mails, on some points connected with the relations between the Post Office Department and Railway Companies 439 APPENDIX, No. 2. Reply of Robert Stephenson, Esq., M.P., President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, to Observations in the Second Report of the Postmaster-General. Delivered at the Meeting of May 20th, 1856 454 APPENDIX, No. 3. Copy of Letter Addressed to a Member of the Italian Parliament upon the Importance of the Eastern Mails, now despatched _viâ_ Marseilles and _viâ_ Southampton, being transmitted _viâ_ Brindisi 482 INDEX 501 MAPS AND DIAGRAMS. PAGE ROUTES FROM LONDON TO BRINDISI BY THE MONT CENIS AND THE BRENNER 14 PLAN OF THE HARBOUR AND TOWN OF BRINDISI 15 MAP OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD 17 MAP OF INDIA AND OF INDIAN RAILWAYS 245 GRADIENTS OF HOLBORN HILL AND SNOW HILL, LONDON 322