A correspondent of the _Athenæum_, in 1830, speaking of the carriage
prepared for the Duke of Wellington at the opening of the Liverpool and
Manchester Railway, remarks: “It rather resembled an eastern pavilion
than anything our northern idea considers a carriage. The floor is 32
feet long by 8 wide, gilt pillars support a crimson canopy 24 feet long,
and it might for magnitude be likened to the car of Juggernaut; yet this
huge machine, with the preceding steam engine, moved along at its own
fiery will even more swimmingly, a ‘thing of heart and mind,’ than a ship
on the ocean.”