Punch,  46 (1864), 246.

Railways

Anon

Genre:

Reportage, Spoof

Subjects:

Railways, Language


    A spoof report on a proposed railway between the 'Subterranean Metropolitan and the Charing Cross-the-Thames [a reference to the South Eastern Railway Company's new Charing Cross Bridge] Railways'; a line that 'will be called, "The Under-and-Over-Line"'.



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