Genre:

Essay, Drollery

Subjects:

Railways, Engineering, Amusement

    Describes a 'Railway Circus', a scheme in which trains move on circular tracks within a 'suitable theatre' and on which drivers perform 'all the usual feats of the riding-school'. Concerned that no engine-driver, including the ringmaster at Astley's Royal Amphitheatre, John E Widdicomb, will be strong enough to counteract the 'centrifugal tendencies' of the engines, but suggests a solution.