The Fast Train to Hampton Court
Anon
Genre: | Illustration; News-Commentary, Drollery |
Relevant illustrations: | wdct. |
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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