They’ll run thirty miles while I’m cracking this joke,
And need no provisions but pump-milk and coke!
And with their long chimneys they skim o’er the rails,
With two thousand hundred-weight tied to their tails!
While Jarvey in stupid astonishment stands,
Upturning both eyes and uplifting both hands,
‘My nags,’ he exclaims, betwixt laughing and crying,
‘Are good ’uns to go, but yon devils are flying.’”
The fares on the Preston and Wyre Railway at its commencement were:—
| 1st class. | 2nd class. | 3rd class. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Preston to Fleetwood or Blackpool | 4s. | 6d. | 3s. | 0d. | 2s. | 0d. |
| Preston to Poulton | 3s. | 6d. | 2s. | 6d. | 1s. | 6d. |
| Preston to Kirkham | 2s. | 0d. | 1s. | 3d. | 0s. | 9d. |
| Preston to Lytham | 3s. | 0d. | 2s. | 6d. | 1s. | 6d. |