Stokers and Pokers:

About this eBook

Author

Head, Francis Bond, Sir, 1793-1875

Title

Stokers and pokers : or, The London and North-Western Railway, the electric telegraph, and the railway clearing-house

Original Publication

United Kingdom: John Murray, 1849.

Credits

Carol Brown, deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

HE: Social sciences: Transportation and communications

Subject

Railway Clearing House (London, England)

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 74809

Release Date

November 27, 2024

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.STOKERS AND POKERS: — LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY,
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.INTRODUCTION.
6. 6.LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. — CHAPTER I. — On the Construction of a Railway. — The Construction of the Line. — Tunnels. — Cuttings. — Embankments. — The Chief Engineer.
7. 7.CHAPTER II. — On the Maintenance of the Permanent Way.
8. 8.CHAPTER III. — The Trains—Euston.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. — The Railway Carriages.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. — Lost Luggage Office.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. — Parcel Delivery Office.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. — The Locomotive Engine.—Camden.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. — Goods Department.
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. — Wolverton.
15. 15.CHAPTER X. — Letters and Newspapers.
16. 16.CHAPTER XI. — Crewe.
17. 17.CHAPTER XII. — A Railway Town.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. — Electric Telegraph.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. — Railway Clearing-House.
20. 20.CHAPTER XV. — Moral.
21. 21.APPENDIX.
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23. 23.INDEX.
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39. 39.Transcriber’s Note:

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