. An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent . lling-ton established his headfjuarters. In the modest church are marble tabletsinscribed with names of English officers and men who fell on the field. Thehouse also is pointed out where the Duke wrote his despatches. Horsesare changed at Mont St. Jean, and a guide is taken up who conducts thevisitor. From the summit of the Mont du Lion, two hundred feet high, thevarious points of historic interest may be descried : the windmill from whichthe approach of Blucher and the Prussians
. An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent . lling-ton established his headfjuarters. In the modest church are marble tabletsinscribed with names of English officers and men who fell on the field. Thehouse also is pointed out where the Duke wrote his despatches. Horsesare changed at Mont St. Jean, and a guide is taken up who conducts thevisitor. From the summit of the Mont du Lion, two hundred feet high, thevarious points of historic interest may be descried : the windmill from whichthe approach of Blucher and the Prussians was first seen, the farm of LaHaye Sainte, La Belle Alliance, and the Chateau of Hougoumont. The traveller who would prefer the railway route is advised to book toBraine IAlleud, not to Waterloo. A fly meets every train at this place, whichis, however, in easy walking distance from the Hotel de Musee, at the footof the mound. This is really the chief point of interest, where the struggletook place, as Waterloo was only the base of operations of the English, andis situated two miles nearer lirussels. 295 S ^5^. ^D:t5 ^5tri /■* If T^HE TIDAL ROUTE. Few railways have undergone such entire transformation as the South-Eastern. A few years since its main station was at London Bridge, and itsmain route through Redhill Junction ; to-day it has one terminus at CharingCross, in the heart of the West-end, and another terminus at Cannon Street,in the heart of City life, whilst these termini themselves are bound togetherby that small loop which twice crosses the Thames within the space of twomiles. As a mere matter of engineering skill, the work appeals strongly tothose who are capable of appreciating tlie difficulties that have been over-come, whilst the stations themselves—broad, open, and simple—are grandin their entire unity of effect. With the same directness of thought, thedivergence from the old route is characterized by equal simplicity and equalvalue. If any one will take a m
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