Genre:

Introduction, Drollery; Advertisement, Spoof

Subjects:

Railways, Transport, Commerce

    Begins by announcing the recent sale of the 'effects of this extraordinary instance of the railroad mania', an event that produced no bidder. Accordingly, it presents the catalogue of this 'late lamented' railroad, a catalogue containing such worthless items as a 'small plot of lettuces, with spring onions en suite', 'A superior engine' that 'Has never yet any followers', and 'An account-book entirely new'.