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