The story of rapid transit . ting for every half-hour duringthe poll were collected from the different booths,and copies were handed to me. I had ordered aservice of trains to be in readiness for the journey,and I at once started from Sunderland to York,another train was in waiting at York to take meto Normington, and others in their turn to Derby,to Rugby, to Wolverton, and to Euston. ThenceI drove to the Times office and handed my manu-script to Mr. Delane, who, according to an ar-rangement I had previously made with him, hadit immediately set up in type, a leader written,both inserted,and a
The story of rapid transit . ting for every half-hour duringthe poll were collected from the different booths,and copies were handed to me. I had ordered aservice of trains to be in readiness for the journey,and I at once started from Sunderland to York,another train was in waiting at York to take meto Normington, and others in their turn to Derby,to Rugby, to Wolverton, and to Euston. ThenceI drove to the Times office and handed my manu-script to Mr. Delane, who, according to an ar-rangement I had previously made with him, hadit immediately set up in type, a leader written,both inserted,and a lot of impressions taken. Twohours were thus spent in London, and then Iset off on my return journey and arrived in Sun-derland next morning at about ten oclock, be-fore the announcement of the poll. I there handedover copies I had brought with me of that days THE STORY OF RAPID TRANSIT Times newspaper, containing the returns of whathad happened in Sunderland the afternoon be-fore. Between five oclock in the evening and ten. I & 13 OS o -c o hJ CO fl3 h 1) that morning I had traveled 600 miles, besidesspending two hours in London,—a clear run offorty miles an hour. It was at this period of the railway mania that DEVELOPMENT OF THE RAILWAY 73 one express steamed up to London, 118 miles, inan hour and a half, nearly eighty miles an hour. In 1846 the distance between London andExeter (193^4 miles) was regularly accomplishedin four hours and a half. In the same year thedistance between London and Liverpool (210miles) occupied just six hours. In 1842 the Great Western Railway causedsome interesting experiments to be made withregard to speed. On one occasion an expertdriver ran his train over the eighteen miles be-tween London and Slough in fifteen minutes,which was at that time the maximum speed whichhad ever been attained on a railway. Six yearslater the fifty-three miles between London andDidcot were traversed in forty-seven minutes. For many years the reputation of being thefa
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