. Every boy's book of railways and steamships . don railway works 13,000 employesreceive £16,000 in wages per week, and as Swindonis a town of only 50,000 inhabitants, the wholeborough, like Crewe, is practically an integral partof a great railway system. The capital of the Great Western Eailway Com-pany is about two-thirds that of the L. & ,but its lines (2950 miles) are longer than those ofany other British company ; its train mileage ex-ceeds even that of the L. & , and it carriesannually 10,000,000 passengers more. In the short space that remains for this chaptercan be attempte
. Every boy's book of railways and steamships . don railway works 13,000 employesreceive £16,000 in wages per week, and as Swindonis a town of only 50,000 inhabitants, the wholeborough, like Crewe, is practically an integral partof a great railway system. The capital of the Great Western Eailway Com-pany is about two-thirds that of the L. & ,but its lines (2950 miles) are longer than those ofany other British company ; its train mileage ex-ceeds even that of the L. & , and it carriesannually 10,000,000 passengers more. In the short space that remains for this chaptercan be attempted only a very brief review of sixor seven of our railway systems, each of whichpresents some special feature of interest. The Great Central Eailway dates only fromAugust, 1897, having been known previously asthe Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Eail-way, whose operations lay chiefly from east towest. Only in 18*99 were 92 miles of new lineopened from Annesley, a few miles north of Not-tingham, to London. To reach the terminus at. PLATE XX. FIVE TRAINS IN MOTION OUTSIDE LIVERPOOL STREET STATION. & SOUTHERN BELLE. A GARLAND OF IRON RIBBONS 141 Marylebone it was necessary to tunnel under LordsCricket Ground. The Company is greatly interestedin the North Sea trade, and owns the extensivedocks at Grimsby, the greatest fishing port inthe world. Over 2J million tons of coal areshipped here in a year; vast quantities of timberarrive from Scandinavia and the Baltic; and thefish trade is immense. The Great Centralslongest non-stop run is from London to Shefiield,164f miles in 2 hours 57 min., or at a fractionunder 56 miles an hour. Another excellent serviceis London to Leicester, 103 miles in 1 hour49 mins., which works out at a little over 56 milesan hour. The Great Eastern Eailway is one of the fewvery important lines whose title really covers itsfield of operations. The system serves EastAnglia with a network of rails, out of whichextends only one important joint li
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