LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY,

THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH,

AND

THE RAILWAY CLEARING-HOUSE.

BY THE AUTHOR OF ‘BUBBLES FROM THE BRUNNEN OF NASSAU.’

LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1849.

London: Printed by W. Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street.

TO RAILWAY TRAVELLERS, AND TO THE PROPRIETORS OF THE

GREAT WESTERN,

MIDLAND,

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE,

YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND BERWICK,

EASTERN COUNTIES,

LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN,

YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND,

CALEDONIAN,

GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN (IRISH),

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN,

AND OTHER BRITISH RAILWAYS, THESE ROUGH SKETCHES, DELINEATING THE DIFFICULTIES ATTENDANT UPON THE CONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE, AND WORKING OF A RAILWAY, ARE INSCRIBED.