ECR 49 036
Reference code
ECR 49 036
Title
Chalcots, Middlesex: Observations concerning the railway
Level
Item
Date
1 February 1832
Extent & medium
2 folios
Content description
Observations on the proposed Railway, drawn up by a subscriber, showing its many advantages. "The locomotive steam engines are prohibited from burning coal - no smoke, therefore, can issue from the flues. The rail on which the wheels run being a narrow rim of wrought iron, without any unevenness of surface, comparatively little noise is heard when a train of carriages, conveying perhaps 150 persons, is in movement, and the rattling of wheels of an ordinary Stage Coach conveying a tenth of the number on a turnpike road, is, in a great measure, avoided."
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