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.