As respects the immense advantages of railways to mankind, there cannot be two opinions. They exhibit, probably, the grandest organisation of capital and labour that the world has yet seen. Although they have unhappily occasioned great loss to many, the loss has been that of individuals; whilst, as a national system, the gain has already been enormous. As tending to multiply and spread abroad the conveniences of life, opening up new fields of industry, bringing nations nearer to each other, and thus promoting the great ends of civilisation, the founding of the railway system by George Stephenson and his son must be regarded as one of the most important events, if not the very greatest, in the first half of this nineteenth century.
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Accidents in coal-mines, [89], [119].
Adam, Mr., counsel for Liverpool and Manchester Railway, [160], [166].
Alderson, Mr. (afterwards Baron), [160], [163], [165], [168].
Alton Grange, G. Stephenson’s residence at, [234]–6, [263].
Ambergate Railway slip, [259]; Lime-works, [278].
Anna, Santa, mines at, [196].
Arnold, Dr., on Railways, [273].