Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct.

Illustrators:

J L, pseud.  [John Leech] *

Subjects:

Railways, Transport, Travel, Gender, Accidents

    Shows a corpulent 'Old Lady' standing in a railway station, reading a notice about insurance against railway accidents. She is so shocked to read the costs for insuring against injuries to limbs, that she throws her parasol and other belongings in the air. The caption explains that she had just decided to 'travel, just for once, by one "of those new fangled railways", and the first thing she beholds on arriving at the station' was the notice about accidents.