 | 1850 - 542 pages
...twenty miles an hour!) And the reviewer expressed his trust that " Parliament will, in all railroads it may sanction, limit the speed to eight or nine miles an hour, which is as great as can be ventured upon with safety." ! ! While contemplating the progress that has ensued,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1825 - 582 pages
...the conveyance of heavy goods, almost as problematical as that to be derived from the passengers ; we will back old father Thames against the Woolwich rail-way for any sum. Returning, however, to that important question, which will speedily be brought to issue between canals... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 556 pages
...the conveyance of heavy goods, almost as problematical as that to be derived from the passengers ; we will back old father Thames against the Woolwich rail-way for any sum. Returning, however, to that important question, which will speedily be brought to issue between canals... | |
 | 1825 - 560 pages
...coaches 1 We trust, however, that Parliament will, in all the rail-roads it may sanction, limit ther . speed to eight or nine miles an hour, which, we entirely agree f * with Mr. Sylvester, is as great as can be ventured upon witk .. *• safety. , Mr. Sylvester, however,... | |
 | 1847 - 862 pages
...to be fired off upon one of Congrcve's ricochet rockets, as trust thcm•elTcs to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate. . . . We will back...Thames against the Woolwich railway for any sum.' How exceedingly absurd this now appears to us, and »hat a lesson does it convey to those whose doubts... | |
 | Samuel Shaen - 1847 - 122 pages
...themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreves' ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate. We will back old Father...Thames against the Woolwich railway for any sum." Then to shew what might reasonably be expected he gives an account of some recent experiments made... | |
 | Peter Progress (pseud.) - 1847 - 192 pages
...twenty miles an hour ! ) " And the reviewer expresses his trust that " Parliament will, in all Railroads it may sanction, limit the speed to eight or nine miles an hour, which is as great as can be ventured upon with safety ! ! " The experiment has, however, been tried, and... | |
 | Peter Progress (pseud.) - 1847 - 106 pages
...twenty miles an hour ! ) " And the reviewer expresses his trust that " Parliament will, in all Railroads it may sanction, limit the speed to eight or nine miles an hour, which is as great as can be ventured upon with safety ! ! " The experiment has, however, been tried, and... | |
 | 608 pages
...for the conveyance of heavy goods, almost as problematical as that to be derived from the passengers; we will back old Father Thames against the Woolwich Railway for any sum." So, too, Mr. SYLVESTER, as quoted by the reviewer: — "'Although it would be practicable to go at... | |
 | 1847 - 854 pages
...ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a ri'-.. . . . We will back old Father Thames against the Woolwich railway for any sum.' How exceedingly absurd this now appears to us, and what a lesson does it convey to those whose doubts... | |
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... What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage-coaches ! We would as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet... 
