Railway Adventures and Anecdotes: Extending Over More Than Fifty Years (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Richard Pike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331439825 ISBN 13: 9781331439820

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

Synopsis

Excerpt from Railway Adventures and Anecdotes: Extending Over More Than Fifty Years Although railways are comparatively of recent date we are so accustomed to them that it is difficult to realize the condition of the country before their introduction. How different are the present day ideas as to speed in travelling to those entertained in the good old times. The celebrated historian, Niebuhr, who was in England in 1798, thus describes the rapid travelling of that period: - "Four I horses drawing a coach with six persons inside, four on the roof, a sort of conductor besides the coachman, and overladen with luggage, have to get over seven English miles in the hour; and as the coach goes on without ever stopping except at the principal stages, it is not surprising that you can traverse the whole extent of the country in so few days. But for any length of time this rapid motion is quite too unnatural. You can only get a very piece-meal view of the country from the windows, and with the tremendous speed at which you go can keep no object long in sight; you are unable also to stop at any place." Near the same time the late Lord Campbell, travelling for the first time by coach from Scotland to London, was seriously advised to stay a day at York, as the rapidity of motion (eight miles per hour) had caused several through-going passengers to die of apoplexy. It is stated in the year 1825, there was in the whole world, only one railway carriage, built to convey passengers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vas

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Richard Pike is also the author of Lightning Boys. He is an expert historian of military aviation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1331439825
• ISBN 13: 9781331439820
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 300