LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| FIG. | PAGE | |
| Electricity. By H. L. Shindler | [Frontispiece ] | |
| [1.] | Queen Victoria’s Train on the Great Western Railway | [3] |
| [2.] | Nine Willans-Siemens Dynamo Sets for Electric Traction, 700 h.p. each | [7] |
| [3.] | The Giant’s Causeway | [12] |
| [4.] | Waterloo and City Railway’s New Pattern Car | [25] |
| [5.] | The Liverpool Overhead Electric Railway | [29] |
| [6.] | Plan of a Behr Mono-Railway Car | [35] |
| [7.] | Interior of a Behr Mono-Railway Car | [44] |
| [8.] | Electrical Power House (the largest in the Old World), Lot’s Road, Chelsea, to supply the Metropolitan District and other Railways with Current | [53] |
| [9.] | A 2,000 h.p. Westinghouse Steam Turbine, resembling the Turbo-Generators (each of 7,500 h.p.) in the Chelsea Power House | [55] |
| [10.] | A New Metropolitan District Railway Car | [56] |
| [11.] | A Typical Electric Power Generator—Two Dynamos, each of about 1,600 h.p. | [69] |
| [12.] | A 3,000 h.p. Triple Expansion Central Valve Electrical Engine | [76] |
| [13.] | Shield at Work in a Tube Running Tunnel | [79] |
| [14.] | The Western Approach to Piccadilly | [123] |
| [15.] | Tram-Car in Paris equipped for Combined Overhead Trolley and Surface Contact System | [133] |
| [16.] | Cross Lane Junction, Salford. The Largest and most Complicated Overhead Trolley Crossing in the Kingdom | [135] |
| [17.] | Boiler Room, London United Tramways Co.’s Power House at Chiswick, fitted with Vicars’ Automatic Stokers | [157] |
| [18.] | A London United Tramways Company Tram-Car | [159] |
| [19.] | Façade of Queen’s Road Car-Shed, Manchester Corporation Tramways | [170] |
| [20.] | View near Dudley Station, South Staffordshire, showing a Steam Tram-Car | [175] |
| [21.] | View at Castle Hill, Dudley, South Staffordshire, showing an Electric Tram-Car | [181] |
| [22.] | Camps Bay, Cape Town, and Seapoint Tramways | [183] |
| [23.] | Boston Subway, showing Entrance at the Public Gardens | [193] |
| [24.] | New York Subway in course of Construction. Car Traffic maintained | [195] |
| [25.] | New York Subway, showing how it was built | [197] |
| [26.] | Electric Carriage entirely of British Construction | [201] |
| [27.] | A “Crowdus” Electric Carriage | [205] |
| [28.] | An Electric Victoria with British Storage Batteries | [207] |
| [29.] | A “Fischer” Combination Omnibus | [211] |
| [30.] | The “Hercules” Traction Engine, as used during the Crimean War | [217] |
| [31.] | A Ten-ton Electric Trolley | [219] |
| [32.] | An Electric Tradesman’s-Van | [220] |
| [33.] | Another Type of the “Fischer” Combination Omnibus | [222] |
| [34.] | Electric Storage Batteries | [237] |
| [35.] | Electric Launch on the Thames | [248] |
| [36.] | Where the Poor Live | [280] |
Tube, Train, Tram, and Car
CHAPTER I
THE OLD AND THE NEW ORDER OF RAILWAY LOCOMOTION
“The thinking minds of all nations call for change.”—Carlyle.
STEAM—THE OLD ORDER
AN immutable law of nature has decreed that whatever attains to perfection is doomed to perish, for
“The world exists by change, and but for that
All matter would to chaos back,
To form a pillow for a sleeping god.”