15. TRAM-CAR IN PARIS EQUIPPED FOR COMBINED OVERHEAD TROLLEY AND SURFACE CONTACT SYSTEM 133 16. CROSS LANE JUNCTION, SALFORD. THE LARGEST AND MOST COMPLICATED OVERHEAD TROLLEY CROSSING IN THE KINGDOM 135 17. BOILER ROOM, LONDON UNITED TRAMWAYS CO.’S POWER HOUSE AT CHISWICK, FITTED WITH VICARS’ AUTOMATIC STOKERS 157 18. A LONDON UNITED TRAMWAYS COMPANY TRAM-CAR 159 19. FAÇADE OF QUEEN’S ROAD CAR-SHED, MANCHESTER CORPORATION TRAMWAYS 170 20. VIEW NEAR DUDLEY STATION, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, SHOWING A STEAM TRAM-CAR 175 21. VIEW AT CASTLE HILL, DUDLEY, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, SHOWING AN ELECTRIC TRAM-CAR 181 22. CAMPS BAY, CAPE TOWN, AND SEAPOINT TRAMWAYS 183 23. BOSTON SUBWAY, SHOWING ENTRANCE AT THE PUBLIC GARDENS 193 24. NEW YORK SUBWAY IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION. CAR TRAFFIC MAINTAINED 195 25. NEW YORK SUBWAY, SHOWING HOW IT WAS BUILT 197 26. ELECTRIC CARRIAGE ENTIRELY OF BRITISH CONSTRUCTION 201 27. A “CROWDUS” ELECTRIC CARRIAGE 205 28. AN ELECTRIC VICTORIA WITH BRITISH STORAGE BATTERIES 207 29. A “FISCHER” COMBINATION OMNIBUS 211 30. THE “HERCULES” TRACTION ENGINE, AS USED DURING THE CRIMEAN WAR 217 31. A TEN-TON ELECTRIC TROLLEY 219 32. AN ELECTRIC TRADESMAN’S-VAN 220 33. ANOTHER TYPE OF THE “FISCHER” COMBINATION OMNIBUS 222 34. ELECTRIC STORAGE BATTERIES 237 35. ELECTRIC LAUNCH ON THE THAMES 248 36. WHERE THE POOR LIVE 280 TUBE, TRAIN, TRAM, AND CAR CHAPTER I _THE OLD AND THE NEW ORDER OF RAILWAY LOCOMOTION_ “The thinking minds of all nations call for change.”--CARLYLE. STEAM--THE OLD ORDER An immutable law of nature has decreed that whatever attains to perfection is doomed to perish, for “The world exists by change, and but for that All matter would to chaos back, To form a pillow for a sleeping god.”