. Our iron roads: their history, construction and administration . gives the signal to engine-driver stands with his hand upon the regulator,and the fireman leans over and watches for the final whistle shrieks ; the train is in motion ; and with increas-ing speed it rolls away, and is soon out of sight. Intermediate stations are of all sorts and sizes, and theiraccommodation and architectural pretensions also vary. Some-times they are handsome or heavy, sometimes neat or pretty, OUR IRON KRAIS. and sometimes the characteristics or materials of the neigh-bourhood have determ
. Our iron roads: their history, construction and administration . gives the signal to engine-driver stands with his hand upon the regulator,and the fireman leans over and watches for the final whistle shrieks ; the train is in motion ; and with increas-ing speed it rolls away, and is soon out of sight. Intermediate stations are of all sorts and sizes, and theiraccommodation and architectural pretensions also vary. Some-times they are handsome or heavy, sometimes neat or pretty, OUR IRON KRAIS. and sometimes the characteristics or materials of the neigh-bourhood have determined their structure and style. TheWoburn station, on the Bletchley and Bedford line, was one »<t tin- earliest that might he called picturesque. •• Yes, this station is lonely, as you say, very, remarked astation-master to us in a beautiful but solitary valley, in a moun-tain district. It is sometimes difficult to get anything evento eat or drink. The farmers kill their own sheep and divide itamong them, and I have sometimes to ask one of the guards to. YORK STATION. bring me something all the way from ; and I perhaps give them a rabbit in return for their trouble. A rabbit! weexclaimed ; how do you get rabbits ? Oh, we often getthem, and game too, he replied. The dook preserves the gameon both sides of the line ; but it gets caught by passing trains,and birds fly against the telegraph wires and lame sometimes find wounded or dead birds on the line. Anddo the keepers consent to your having them ? we asked. Well,he returned, I did have a little bother with one of them sometime ago. I had been down to the distant signal, and found a AN INTERMEDIATE STATION. 261 hare on the line, and was carrying it home, when I saw the keeperover the hedge. Youve no business with that there hare, heshouted to me; its the dooks. Then, I said, if its thedooks, the dook had better come and fetch it. He threatenedme a bit, but he didnt come on to the line for it. I paid himout
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