Punch's Railway Literature
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Railways, Steamships, Engineering, Invention, Transport |
Responds to a proposal to build a railway for conveying ships between the commercial and manufacturing towns of the north of England. With ships being carried overland, believes that the 'sea will become a superfluity, and a Company to bottle it off may be formed immediately'. | |
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