Genre:

Advertisement, Spoof

Subjects:

Railways, Transport, Engineering, Charlatanry

    Prospectus for the 'Great North Pole Railway', a scheme, directed by such figures as 'Jack Frost, Chairman of the North-West Passage', and 'Baron Iceberg, Keeper of the Great Seal on the Northern Ocean', which intends to build a line that will run from the horizon, via the equator, to the North Pole. States that Professor Twaddle has been invited to discover a way of conveying sunbeams along the line.