[53b] There, only a foot or two above the ground.
[62] The average number of passengers drawn by the locomotive engines between Liverpool and Manchester during the most successful half year since that railway has been opened, is 87 each journey.
These boats can and have carried 110 passengers at one time, though 100 may be considered an average number.
[69] Air of only three-fourths, two-thirds, half, and in Joliffe and Cornillot’s ascent, of less than half the usual density (the barometer sinking to 12.15) has frequently been respired, without any serious consequences.
[72] “Railroads, in many instances lighted with gas for a considerable distance (in one instance for sixteen miles) are, more or less, traversing every district of the country.”—New Monthly Magazine, July, 1830.
“The Liverpool and Leeds Railway.—A bill is now under the consideration of a select committee of the House of Commons, for the purpose of connecting by rail-roads Liverpool with the ports on the Humber, and thereby to bring the German Ocean and the Irish Sea, the eastern and western sides of the island, within six hours’ journey of each other. It is proposed to have four lines of railway, two for swift carriages, going and returning with light goods and passengers, and two for slower carriages, with heavy goods and animals. The whole is to be lighted with gas, so as to be traversable by night as well as day, and the plan of the iron rails will secure the carriages from obstructing one another.”—Times, 17th March, 1831.
“The outline of a plan has been stated to us, for lighting up the intended line of railway from this city to London with gas. Our correspondent says, ‘Of the practicability of the thing there can be no doubt; and it certainly would be an improvement, and create a great demand for coals; as the gas might be continued from the parent line to any extent.’”—Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal, 3rd August, 1833.