Punch,  8 (1845), 170.

Punch's Railway Intelligence

Anon

Genre:

Introduction, Drollery; Advertisement, Spoof

Subjects:

Railways, Engineering, Magnetism, Charlatanry, Accidents


    Describes the 'Grand Antipodean and Hemispherical Junction Railway Company', a firm that proposes to build a railway tunnel through the earth direct from Glasgow to Sydney. Points out that the venture will yield clay (of benefit to potteries) and precious metals. Notes that owing to gravity, 'down trains only' will be possible, although 'up trains' await the invention of 'a magnetic apparatus'. Adds that this train journey will be devoid of the usual explosions, smoke, and hot water.



© Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Project, Universities of Leeds and Sheffield, 2005 - 2020

Printed from Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: An Electronic Index, v. 4.0, The Digital Humanities Institute <http://www.sciper.org> [accessed ]