Punch,  6 (1844), 64.

Railway Reform

Anon

Genre:

Reportage, Spoof

Subjects:

Railways, Government, Transport


    Summarises the contents of a new parliamentary bill for improving railway travel. Proposals include such pedantic items as preventing a husband and wife from sitting in the same carriage 'for fear of their falling out during the journey'.



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