Stokers and Pokers: Or, the London and North-Western Railway, the Electric Telegraph, and the Railway ClearinghouseMurray, 1849 - 208 Seiten |
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Seite 128 - A murder has just been committed at Salthill, and the suspected murderer was seen to take a first-class ticket for London by the train which left Slough at 7.42 pm He is in the garb of a Quaker, with a brown great-coat on, which reaches nearly down to his feet. He is in the last compartment of the second first-class carriage.
Seite 202 - No passenger will be allowed to enter any carriage used on the railway, or to travel therein upon the railway, without having first paid his fare, and obtained a ticket.
Seite 202 - Each passenger booking his place will be furnished with a ticket, which he is to show when required by the guard in charge of the train, and to deliver up, before leaving the Company's premises, upon demand, to the guard or other servant of the Company duly authorised to collect tickets. Each passenger not producing or delivering up his ticket will be required to pay the fare from the place whence the train originally started.
Seite 166 - ... their falling off. When the engine passes over the signal, it explodes with a loud report and the Driver is instantly to stop.
Seite 206 - Person shall wilfully obstruct or impede any Officer or Agent of any Railway Company in the Execution of his Duty upon any Railway, or upon or in any of the Stations or other Works "or Premises connected therewith, or if any Person shall wilfully trespass upon any Railway, or any of the Stations or other Works or Premises connected therewith, and shall refuse to quit the same upon Request...
Seite 100 - ... boiler, in addition to that which was resounding without, formed altogether a dose which it is astonishing the tympanum of the human ear can receive uninjured; at all events we could not help thinking that, if there should happen to exist on earth any man ungallant enough to complain of the occasional admonition of a female tongue, if he will only go by rail to Crewe, and sit in that boiler for half an hour, he will most surely never again complain of the chirping of that 'cricket on his hearth'...
Seite 206 - Company in the Execution of his Duty upon any Railway, or upon or in any of the Stations or other Works "or Premises connected therewith, or if any Person shall wilfully trespass upon any Railway, or any of the Stations or other Works or Premises connected therewith, and shall refuse to quit the same upon Request to him made by any Officer or Agent of the...
Seite 87 - The excellent matron, however, who has charge of these young people — who always dine and live at her table — with honest pride declares, that the breath of slander has never ventured to sully the reputation of any of those who have been committed to her charge ; and as this testimony is corroborated by persons residing in the...
Seite 84 - By about midnight, after having philosophically divested themselves of the various little bustles of the day, they are all enabled once again to lay their heads on their pillows, with the exception of one, who in her turn, assisted by one man and one boy of the establishment, remains on duty receiving the money, etc., till four in the morning, for the up-mail.
Seite 87 - ... reach rather higher than their characters. Considering, then, the difficult duties which our seven young attendants have to perform — considering the temptations to which they are constantly exposed, in offering to the public attentions which are ever to simmer and yet never to boil ; it might be expected that our inquiries should considerately go no further than the arrival at 11 pm of the