. Our iron roads: their history, construction and administration . n, andtwenty miles an hour. Nothing can do more harm towardstheir general adoption and improvement than the promulgationof such nonsense ! As to those persons, said the Quarterly Review, whospeculate on making railways generally throughout the kingdom,and superseding all the canals, all the wagons, mails, and stage-coaches, post-chaises, and, in short, every other mode of con-veyance, by land and by water, we deem them and theirvisionary schemes unworthy of notice. The gross exaggerationsof the powers of the locomotive steam-en
. Our iron roads: their history, construction and administration . n, andtwenty miles an hour. Nothing can do more harm towardstheir general adoption and improvement than the promulgationof such nonsense ! As to those persons, said the Quarterly Review, whospeculate on making railways generally throughout the kingdom,and superseding all the canals, all the wagons, mails, and stage-coaches, post-chaises, and, in short, every other mode of con-veyance, by land and by water, we deem them and theirvisionary schemes unworthy of notice. The gross exaggerationsof the powers of the locomotive steam-engine (or, to speak inplain English, the steam-carriage), may delude for a time, butmust end in the mortification of those concerned. We shouldas soon expect the people to suffer themselves to be fired offupon one of Congreves ricochet rockets, as trust themselves tothe mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate. The merits of the competing engines for the Liverpool andManchester Railway were determined by the directors, assisted THE NOVELTY AND THE ROCKET. 21. by Messrs. Rastrick, Kennedy, and Nicholas Wood. On theday appointed, the Roc-ket, constructed by Stephenson ; theNovelty, by & Ericson;and the Sans Pareil, byMr. T. Hack worth, en-tered the lists, on a pieceof railroad which hadbeen selected betweenLiverpool and Man- the novelty. Chester. In consequence of this space being little more thana mile and a half long, each engine had to travel the wholedistance backwards and forwards ten times, making a journeyof thirty miles. In order that the performances of each mightbe accurately tested, a judge was stationed at each end of thereal running course, who noticed the exact time at which theengines passed ; the additional ground at each end being allowedto them for getting up their speed. When the Sans Pareil wasexamined, it was found not to have been constructed in preciseaccordance with the stipulations of the company, and thereforewas, in stri
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