CHAPTER I.PAGE
Travelling Two Hundred and One Hundred Years ago—The Liverpooland Manchester Railway—The First Locomotive, “Rocket”—TheGrand Junction, London and Birmingham, and Birmingham andManchester Railways—The Midland Railway—Early Gradients,Increase in their Steepness and in the Power of the Locomotive—TheCarriage Road-way Passes of the Alps—Mountains of theWorld—The Sœmmering and Brenner Railways—The Route betweenLondon and Paris[1]
CHAPTER II.
Union Pacific Railroad—South Austrian and Alta Italia—Paris, Lyons,and Mediterranean—Orleans—Mileage, Cost, and Receipts of FrenchRailways—London Traffic—London and North-Western Railway[17]
CHAPTER III.
Railways of the United Kingdom—Coal and Iron[40]
CHAPTER IV.
Railways and the Post Office—Speed on Railways[73]
CHAPTER V.
Railways and the Post Office—continued[115]
CHAPTER VI.
Railway Receipts, Working Expenses, and Profits in the United Kingdom—Delays and Accidents[147]
CHAPTER VII.
Horses and Engines—Crewe[186]
CHAPTER VIII.
A Journey on the Locomotive[210]
CHAPTER IX.
Indian Railways[245]
CHAPTER X.
Canadian and Australian Railways—The Railways of other BritishColonies[301]
CHAPTER XI.
Paris to St. Michel—“Above Sea-Level”—The Holborn Viaduct—TheMont Cenis Railway[316]
CHAPTER XII.
Tunnels, Ancient and Modern[358]
CHAPTER XIII.
The Great Tunnel of the Alps—Tunnel Ventilation—Ventilation in theMetropolitan Railway[401]
CHAPTER XIV.
Italy—The Eastern Mails—Sicily[427]

[APPENDICES.]

APPENDIX, No. 1.PAGE
Report by Mr. Edward Page, Inspector-General of Mails, on some pointsconnected with the relations between the Post Office Department andRailway Companies[439]
APPENDIX, No. 2.
Reply of Robert Stephenson, Esq., M.P., President of the Institution ofCivil Engineers, to Observations in the Second Report of the Postmaster-General.Delivered at the Meeting of May 20th, 1856[454]
APPENDIX, No. 3.
Copy of Letter Addressed to a Member of the Italian Parliament uponthe Importance of the Eastern Mails, now despatched viâ Marseillesand viâ Southampton, being transmitted viâ Brindisi[482]
INDEX[501]

MAPS AND DIAGRAMS.