  | CHAPTER I. | PAGE | | Travelling Two Hundred and One Hundred Years ago—The Liverpool and Manchester Railway—The First Locomotive, “Rocket”—The Grand Junction, London and Birmingham, and Birmingham and Manchester Railways—The Midland Railway—Early Gradients, Increase in their Steepness and in the Power of the Locomotive—The Carriage Road-way Passes of the Alps—Mountains of the World—The Soemmering and Brenner Railways—The Route between London and Paris | 1 | | CHAPTER II. | | Union Pacific Railroad—South Austrian and Alta Italia—Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean—Orleans—Mileage, Cost, and Receipts of French Railways—London Traffic—London and North-Western Railway | 17 | | CHAPTER III. | | Railways of the United Kingdom—Coal and Iron | 40 | | CHAPTER IV. | | Railways and the Post Office—Speed on Railways | 73 | | CHAPTER V. | | Railways and the Post Office—continued | 115 | | CHAPTER VI. | | Railway Receipts, Working Expenses, and Profits in the United Kingdom— Delays and Accidents | 147 | | CHAPTER VII. | | Horses and Engines—Crewe | 186 | | CHAPTER VIII. | | A Journey on the Locomotive | 210 | | CHAPTER IX. | | Indian Railways | 245 | | CHAPTER X. | | Canadian and Australian Railways—The Railways of other British Colonies | 301 | | CHAPTER XI. | | Paris to St. Michel—“Above Sea-Level”—The Holborn Viaduct—The Mont Cenis Railway | 316 | | CHAPTER XII. | | Tunnels, Ancient and Modern | 358 | | CHAPTER XIII. | | The Great Tunnel of the Alps—Tunnel Ventilation—Ventilation in the Metropolitan Railway | 401 | | CHAPTER XIV. | | Italy—The Eastern Mails—Sicily | 427 |
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