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Express Trains, English and Foreign; Being a Statistical Account of All the Express Trains of the World


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...then, we must say that in 1888 express travelling had grown to four times per head what it was in 1871,1 and that this quadrupled facility has been accompanied by an increase of comfort and safety beyond expression in figures. Things would hardly have been better had our railways all been 'under Government.' As to the efficient cause of these 'leaps and bounds ' which have taken place since 1871, we quote from the introductory remarks of Lieut. Willock's paper: --(1.) The Midland obtained access to London by its own line. (2.) The Midland in 1872 admitted third class passengers into express trains. (3.) Other companies soon did the same. (4.) Hence much longer trains; and also as competition increased more commodious, and consequently heavier, carriages were introduced. (5.) Then heavier and more powerful engines had to be constructed to draw these trains, and were made directly. (6.) This spur to locomotive improvement made still higher speeds (even with the increased weight of trains) possible, and competition eagerly seized this possibility. chiefly owing to a burst of competition for Scotch traffic. (The Rev. C. E. Graves points out that the bulk of our express improvements have occurred in leap year, viz. 1872, 1876, 1880, 1884, 1888.) 1 Xhe population having increased about 40 per cent. SOME EFFECTS OF EXPRESS SPEED. We have only room for a thumb-nail sketch, but we should not dismiss our statistics without a word as to the influence exerted on a country by the constant stir of cheap and rapid locomotion. The number and speed of the express trains of a country is not an unimportant circumstance. It is quite as pregnant as many smaller facts which compel the reader's respect because they are called 'phenomena.' Like any other phenomenon, the remarkable ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781235916618
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 42
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235916618
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 95 gr


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