ABSTRACT

Paddington Terminus.—"A Certain Field."—Preamble of the Act-Station and Staff.—Euston.—St. Paneras.—Lost Luggage Office.—Variety of Articles Lost-The Hat Shelf.—Curiosities of Lost Luggage.—The Departing Train. — Passengers. — Intermediate Stations. — Woburn. —A Lonely Station.—The Station Master and the Keeper.—York Station.—Names of Stations.—Station Notices.—A Passing Train.— Strange Movements of Engines.—A Group on the Platform.—Arrival of Train and Departure.—Maintaining the British Constitution.— Refreshment Rooms. — Wolverton. — Swindon. — Rugby Junction.— Good Digestion.— Wagon Loading Gauge.— Strange Visitors at Stations.—Points.—Crossings and Sidings.—A Railway Siding.—Toton Sidings.—Ingenuity of Inventors.—Home Signals.—Distant Signals.— Junction Signals.—A Country Signal Box.—A Station Signal Box.— Interlocking Signals.—Cannon Street Station.—Cannon Street Interlocking Signals.—Cannon Street Signal Platform.—Messrs. Saxby and Farmer's Instruments.—Seeing Through a Brick Bridge.—Block System. — Block System on Metropolitan Line. — Cost of Block Signal Machines.—The Lamp Room.—Fogmen.—Fog Signalling.— Fog Signals.—Construction of Railway Signals.—Railway Telegraphy.