A.B.C. and D.E.F.

171

Accident, Abergele, The

220

,, Beneficial Effect of a Railway

186

,, Extraordinary

128

,, ,,

265

,, Remarkable

172

,, Versailles, The

96

Action, A Novel

255

Advantages of Railway Tunnels

126

Advertisement, Remarkable

124

Adventure, Remarkable

146

Affrighted Toll Keeper

19

Agent, The Insurance

269

Air-ways, instead of Railways

83

Alarmist Views

28

Almost Dar Now

122

American Patience and Imperturbability

183

A’penny a Mile

170

Army with Banners, An

207

Atmospheric Railroad Anticipated

14

Baby Law

216

Balloonists, Extraordinary Escape of

275

Bavarian Guards and Bavarian Beer

198

Bill, Expensive Parliamentary

102

,, First Railway

16

Bishop, A Disingenuous

267

,, An Industrious

248

Blunder, An Extraordinary

254

Bookshops, Growth of Station

130

Booking-Clerk and Buckland, The

248

Bookstalls, Messrs. Smith’s

131

Brahmin, The Polite

260

Bride’s Lost Luggage, A

142

Brassey’s, Mr., Strict Adherence to his Word

264

Brougham’s, Lord, Speech

60

Box, Shut up in a large

273

Buckland’s, Mr. Frank, First Railway Journey

175

Buckland, Mr. Frank, and his Boots

261

Bridge, Awful Death on a Railroad

273

Bully Rightly Served, The

190

Burning the Road Clear

179

Business, Railway Facilities for

118

Calculation as to Railway Speed

28

Capture, Clever

105

Catastrophe

165

Carlist Chief as a Sub-contractor, A

213

Carriage, The Duke’s

60

Casuality, Curious

193

Chase after a Runaway Engine, A

136

Child’s Idea on Railways, A

179

Child, Remarkable Rescue of a

249

Claim for goodwill for a Cow killed on the Railway

268

Clergy, Appealing to the

83

Clever, Quite too

181

Coach versus Railway Accidents

198

Compensation for Land

106

,, A Widow’s Claim for

242

Competition, Early Railway

27

,, For Passengers

167

,, Goods

135

Conductor, A Wide-awake

184

Coincidences, Remarkable

291

Cook’s Railway Excursions, Origin of

87

Cool Impudence and Dishonesty

248

Coolness, A Little Boy’s

258

Constable, The Electric

92

Contracts, Expensive

263

Contractor, An Accommodating

113

Contractors and the Blotting Pad, Rival

99

Contrast, National

171

Conversion of the Gauge

243

Counsel, The bothered Queen’s

247

Courting on a Railway thirty miles an hour

159

Crimea, The First Railway in the

156

Croydon. It’s

271

Curious Classification, A

294

Custom of the Country, The

234

Cuvier’s Description of the Locomotive

21

Damages easily adjusted

127

Day. The Great Railway Mania

114

Death. Faithful unto

153

Decision. A Quick

95

Decoy Trunk, The

224

Deodand. The

88

Difficulties encountered in making Surveys

31

Difficulty solved, A

181

Discovery, A Great

144

Discussion, An Unfortunate

89

Disguise, Duty in

283

Dissatisfied Passengers

236

Doctor and the Officers, The

246

Dog Ticket

91

Down Brakes, or Force of Habit

192

Drink. That accursed

274

Drinking from the Wrong Bottle

262

Driving a last spike

224

Dropping the letter “L”

267

Dukes and the traveller, The two

114

Dying Engine Driver, The

191

Early American Railway Enterprise

66

Early Morning Ride

187

Early Steam Carriages

15

Elevated Sight-seers Wishing to Descend

59

Engine Driver, A Brave

247

,, A Mad

278

Engine Driver’s Presence of Mind

232

,, Driving

230

,, Fascination

166

Engineer and Scientific Witness

133

,, Very Nice to be a Railway

113

Entertaining Companion

195

Epigram, Railway

124

Epitaph, An Engine Driver’s

86

,, on the Victim of a Railway Accident

85

Escape, Providential

128

Escapes from being Lynched, Narrow

153

Everett’s Reply to Wordsworth’s Protest

123

Evidence of General Salesman

78

,, Picture

111

Evil, A Dreaded

145

Excursionists put to the proof

294

Extracts from Macready’s Diaries

138

Fares, Cheap

188

Fault, At

241

Female Fragility

250

Flutter caused by the murder of Mr. Briggs

253

Fog Signals

121

Forged Tickets

217

Fourth of July Facts

244

Fraud on the Great Northern Company, Immense

161

Frauds, Attempted

140

Freak, Singular

170

Freaks of Concealed Bogs

138

Frightened at a Red Light

223

Girl, A Brave

273

Goat and the Railway, The

155

Good Things of Railway Accidents

186

Gravedigger’s Suggestion, A

257

Gray, Thomas. A Railway Projector

22

Greenlander’s First Railway Ride, A

255

Growing Lad, A

217

Hartington, The Marquis of, on George Stephenson

283

Hair-Dresser, The anxious

79

Heroism of a Driver

270

Highlander and a Railway Engine, The

138

Hoax, Accident

167

Horses versus Railways

262

How to bear losses

214

Impressions, A Mexican Chief’s Railway

278

Incident, An amusing

258

,, An Electric Tramway

282

Information, Obtaining

154

Insulted Woman, An

235

Insured

202

Judge’s feeling against Railways, A County Court

150

Kangaroo Attacking a Train, A

209

Kemble’s Letter, Fanny

35

Kid-Gloved Samson, A

184

Kiss in the Dark, A

256

Lady and her Lap-dog, The

242

,, An Exacting

183

Legislation, Railway

100

Liabilities of Railway Engineers for Errors

127

Liability of Companies for Delay of Trains

191

Life upon a Railway, by a Conductor

148

Loan Engineering, or Staking out a Railway

172

Locomotive, A Smuggling

234

,, Dangerous

292

Luggage, Lost

112

,, in Railway Carriages

281

,, What is Passengers’

243

Madman in a Railway Carriage, A

201

Marriage, A Railway

139

,, and Railway Dividends

228

Match, A Runaway

93

Merchant and his Clerk, The

160

Mistake, A slight

263

Monetary Difficulties in Spain

212

Money. Lost and Found

87

Monkey Signalman, A

294

Navvy’s Reason for not going to Church, A

80

Nervousness

259

New Trick. A

203

Newspaper Wonder, A

211

Newton, Sir Isaac’s Prediction of Railway Speed

14

Notice, Copy of a

237

,, A curious

154

,, A remarkable

252

,, to Defaulting Shareholders, A Novel

95

Not to be caught

246

Novel Attack, A

197

,, Obstruction

215

Objections, Sanitary

77

Opposition, A Landowner’s

110

,, English and American

71

,, Parliamentary

29

,, to Making Surveys

75

Orders, My

280

Parody upon the Railway Mania

118

Passengers and other Cattle

158

,, Third-class

143

Peto, Sir Morton, and the Balaclava Railway

156

Peto’s, Sir Morton, Railway Mission

104

Phillippe and the English Navvies, Louis

125

Photographing an Express Train

259

Polite Irishman, The

194

Portmanteau, His

130

Post Office and Railways. The

119

Power of Locomotive Engines, Gigantic

94

Practice, Sharp

80

Prejudice against carrying Coals by Railways

84

,, Removed

81

Presentiment, Mrs. Blackburne’s

56

Profitable Damages

295

Prognostications of Failure

73

Pullman’s Carriages

295

Race, A Curious

254

Railway, An Early

20

,, An Early Ride on the Liverpool and Manchester

61

,, Announcement

17

,, Enterprise

296

,, Travelling, Early

63

,, Destroyers in the Franco-German War

223

,, from Merstham to Wandsworth

16

,, Liverpool and Manchester

32

,, Manners

272

,, Merthyr Tydvil

17

,, A Profitable

260

,, Opening of the Darlington and Stockton

26

,, Romance

93

,, Sleeper, A

246

,, Signals

120

,, Switch Tender and his Child

199

,, Train turned into a Man-trap

185

,, Up Vesuvius

274

Railways, Elevated

214

,, A Judgment

268

,, Origin of

13

Railroad Incident

214

,, Tracklayer

216

Rails, Expansion of

158

Rector and his Pig. The

103

Redstart, The Black

199

Rejoinder, A smart

158

Reproof for Swearing

189

Request, A Polite

136

Ride from Boston to Providence in 1835, A

81

Robinson’s, Crabb, First Railway Journey

65

Ruling Occupation strong on Sunday

186

Safety on the Floor

147

Seat, The Safest

268

Scotch Lady and her Box

272

Scene at a Railway Junction, Extraordinary

134

,, Before a Sub-Committee on Standing Orders

176

Security for Travelling

229

Sell, A

241

Seizure of a Railway Train for Debt

208

She takes Fits

210

Shrewd Observers

20

Signalman, An Amateur

97

Singular Circumstance

125

Sleeper, A Heavy

276

Sounds, Remarkable Memory for

266

Snag’s Corners

210

Snake’s Heads

81

Snowed up on the Pacific Railway

237

Speed of Railway Engines

30

Steam defined

137

,, Pulling a Tooth by

276

Steel Rails

193

Stephenson Centenary, The

284

,, ,, George Robert Stephenson’s Address

286

,, ,, Rev. T. C. Sarjent’s Address at the

288

,, ,, Sir William Armstrong’s Address at the

284

Stephenson’s Wedding Present, George

194

Stopping a Runaway Couple

200

Stumped

293

Swindling, Ingenious

292

Taken Aback

152

Taking Him Down a Peg

252

Taste, Loss of

291

Tay Bridge Accident

245

Telegraph, Extraordinary use of the Electric

111

Ticket, A Lost

164

,, Your

271

Traffic-Taking

86

Train Stopped by Caterpillars, A

204

Travelling, Effects of Constant Railway

281

,, in Russia

204

,, Improvement in Third-Class

143

Trent Station

192

Trip, An Unpleasant Trial

72

Tunnel, In a Railway

137

Very Cool

199

Waif, An Extraordinary

245

Ward’s, Artemus, Suggestion

197

Watkin, Sir Edward, on Touting for Business

269

Way, A Quick

138

Way-Leaves

13

Wedding at a Railway Station

166

What are you going to do?

189

Whistle, Steam

98

Wolves on a Railway

197

Wordsworth’s Protest

122

Yankee Compensation Case, A

218