Punch,  16 (1849), 87.

The Fast Train to Hampton Court

Anon

Genre:

Illustration; News-Commentary, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

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Illustrators:

N, pseud.  [William Newman] *

Subjects:

Railways, Transport


    Responds to news that a correspondent in The Times travelled on a Hampton Court Railway locomotive that was dragged for three miles by a horse. Prefers 'a cab to the idle fiction' of travel by trains on the Hampton line. The illustration depicts a horse dragging a coal cart and railway carriages.



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