The Life of George Stephenson and of His Son Robert Stephenson: Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway LocomotiveHarper, 1868 - 501 páginas |
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... London to Brindisi on the southeast- ern extremity of the Italian peninsula ; and , in the course of a few more years , a still shorter route will be opened through France , when that most formidable of all railway borings , the seven ...
... London to Brindisi on the southeast- ern extremity of the Italian peninsula ; and , in the course of a few more years , a still shorter route will be opened through France , when that most formidable of all railway borings , the seven ...
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... London to Brighton ; while the carrying vehicles , joined together , would form two trains occupying a double line of rail- way extending from London to beyond Inverness . A notable feature in the growth of railway traffic of late years ...
... London to Brighton ; while the carrying vehicles , joined together , would form two trains occupying a double line of rail- way extending from London to beyond Inverness . A notable feature in the growth of railway traffic of late years ...
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... London , about 700 trains pass or stop daily ; and though to the casual observer the succession of trains coming and going , running and stopping , coupling and shunting , appears a scene of inextricable confusion and danger , the whole ...
... London , about 700 trains pass or stop daily ; and though to the casual observer the succession of trains coming and going , running and stopping , coupling and shunting , appears a scene of inextricable confusion and danger , the whole ...
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... London Bridge Station alone ; and on some days as many as 1200 trains a day . While such are the expedients adopted to insure safety , others equally ingenious are adopted to insure speed . In the case of express and mail trains , the ...
... London Bridge Station alone ; and on some days as many as 1200 trains a day . While such are the expedients adopted to insure safety , others equally ingenious are adopted to insure speed . In the case of express and mail trains , the ...
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... London has been of comparative- ly recent date , the whole of the lines connecting it with the prov- inces and terminating at its outskirts having been opened during the last thirty years , while the lines inside London have for the ...
... London has been of comparative- ly recent date , the whole of the lines connecting it with the prov- inces and terminating at its outskirts having been opened during the last thirty years , while the lines inside London have for the ...
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