. The American railway; its construction, development, management, and appliances . e when Puck was supposed toutter his boast to put a girdle round aboutthe earth in forty minutes to the time whenJules Vernes itinerant hero accomplished thetask in twice that number of days, the restlessingenuity and energy of man have been unceas-ingly taxed to increase the speed, comfort, and safetyof passenger travel. The first railway on which pas-sengers were carried was the Stockton & Darlington, of Eng-land, the distance being 12 miles. It was opened September 27,1825, with a freight train, or, as it is
. The American railway; its construction, development, management, and appliances . e when Puck was supposed toutter his boast to put a girdle round aboutthe earth in forty minutes to the time whenJules Vernes itinerant hero accomplished thetask in twice that number of days, the restlessingenuity and energy of man have been unceas-ingly taxed to increase the speed, comfort, and safetyof passenger travel. The first railway on which pas-sengers were carried was the Stockton & Darlington, of Eng-land, the distance being 12 miles. It was opened September 27,1825, with a freight train, or, as it is called in England, a goods train, but which also carried a number of excursionists. An enginewhich was the result of many years of labor and experiment on thepart of George Stephenson was used on this train. Stephensonmounted it and acted as driver; his bump of caution was evidentlylargely developed, for, to guard against accidents from the reck-lessness of the speed, he arranged to have a signalman on horse-back ride in advance of the engine to warn the luckless trespasser. THE FIRST PASSENGER ADVERTISEMENT 229
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