City and South London Railway, The, 15-18, 22, 23 -- -- -- -- A trial trip in, 19-22 Claims for damage by railway tubing, 83-86 Combination omnibus (electricity and petrol,) 210, 211 Conveyances, Public, 208-213 County Council, The London, 143 -- -- -- and rehousing, 143, 144 County Council’s, The London, design for shallow underground railway, 187, 188 -- -- -- tramway system, 140-150 -- -- -- tramways, Business journey on, 151-156 Country, Changes produced by electric locomotion in the, 273 Crimean war and traction engine, 217 Devonport electric tramway accident, 261, 262 Earth tremblings, 89 Electric haulage on tramways by accumulators, 137 -- -- -- closed conduit, 134 -- -- -- open conduit, 133, 134 -- -- -- overhead trolley, 134-137 -- locomotion, Devil’s Advocate and, 250, 251 -- -- Drawbacks of, 250-267 -- -- our national life and, 269-286 -- -- Various forms of, 9, 10 -- motor-cars, 206, 208 -- -- vehicles, 214, 219 -- omnibuses, 211, 212 Electric railway accident in United States, 251 -- -- -- on Liverpool Overhead, 251-253 -- -- accidents, official report upon causes of, 251-253 -- -- breakdown on City and South London, 255, 256 -- -- breakdowns on Central London, 253-255 -- railways, Accidents on, 251-256 -- -- Pioneer, 11-30 -- -- Remarkable, 31-46 -- traction undertakings, Investment of capital in, 269, 270 -- tramcars, Description of, 137, 138 -- tramway accidents, Official report upon causes of, 261, 262 -- -- traction, Various methods of, 131-138 -- tramways generally, 128-140 -- -- Objections to, 258 Electricity, amount required to cause death, 264 -- Definition of terms used in, 8, 9 -- for traction, how produced, 7, 8 -- Signs of the times and, 285 -- Storage of, 235 -- -- applied to navigation, 230-249 -- -- Edison’s system, 235, 236 Emigration and overcrowding, 278, 279 Factories, Removal from London of, 144-146 Flourishing state of motor-car industry in Great Britain, 204-206 General verdict upon drawbacks of electric locomotion, 267, 268 Giant’s Causeway Electric Railway, The, 11-13 Glasgow electric tramway accident, 260, 261 -- tramways, 166-168 Great Northern, Brompton, and Piccadilly Circus Railway, The, 117, 118, 127 -- -- -- -- -- -- Advantages of, 117, 118 -- -- -- -- -- -- Aristocratic character of, 126, 127 -- -- -- -- -- -- Route of, 118-126 Grimsthorpe motor-car accident, 264, 265 Haulage on tramways, Various methods of, 130, 131 High-speed railways, 38-40 History of tramways, 128-130 Horseless vehicles, electrical and otherwise, 200-229 -- -- in the past, 203, 204 How railway Tubes are bored, 77-81 Huddersfield electric tramway accident, 258, 259 Improvements in railway travelling, 2-4 Inner Circle, Rejuvenating the Metropolitan, 47-62 Introduction of tramways by G. F. Train, 128, 129 Investment of capital in electric traction undertakings, 269, 270 Legislation respecting motor-cars, 226 Light Railway Act of 1896, 162-166, 171, 172