 | 1889 - 1088 pages
...the proposed Woolwich Kailway, deprecated any wild estimates as to speed. ' We will back,' it said, ' old Father Thames against the Woolwich Railway for...limit the speed to eight or nine miles an hour, which is as great as can be ventured on with safety.' When the prophets have failed so egregiously in the... | |
 | Thomas Allan Croal - 1877 - 652 pages
...and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage coaches ? We trust that Parliament will, in all railways it...sanction, limit the speed to eight or nine miles an 492 493 hour, which, we quite agree with Mr. Sylvester, is as great as can lie ventured on with safety"... | |
 | Thomas Allan Croal - 1877 - 642 pages
...and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage coaches ? We trust that Parliament will, in all railways it may sanction, limit th« speed to eight or nine miles in hour, which, we quite agree with Mr. Sylvester, is as great as... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1879 - 464 pages
...themselves to be fired off upon one of Oongreve's 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. We 160 THE BILL BEFORE PARLIAMENT. CHAP. IX trust, that Parliament will, in all railways it may sanction,... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - 1879 - 430 pages
...to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as tru^t themselves to a machine going at such a rate. We will back Old Father...Thames against the Woolwich railway for any sum." One of the counsel before the parliamentary committee said : " Who but Mr. Stephenson would have thought... | |
 | Michael Reynolds - 1881 - 266 pages
...mercy of such a machine going at such a rate. We will back old Father Thames against the Greenwich Railway for any sum. We trust that Parliament will,...railways it may sanction, limit the speed to eight miles an hour, which is as great as can be ventured on with safety." This was in 1825. What said The... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1881 - 506 pages
...themselves to be fired off by one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate. . . . We will back...Thames against the Woolwich Railway for any sum.' The Quarterly by no means stood alone in its opinions ; indeed, it may safely be said that, so far... | |
 | Michael Reynolds - 1881 - 226 pages
...themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's 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 Greenwich Railway for any sum. We t1ust that Parliament will, in all railways it may sanction, limit... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1882 - 514 pages
...themselves to be fired off by one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate. . . . We will back...Thames against the Woolwich Railway for any sum." The Quarterly by no means stood alone in its opinions ; indeed, it may safely be said that, so far... | |
 | Thomas Earnshaw Bradley - 1882 - 872 pages
...the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets. We trust that Parliament will in all railways it may sanction limit the speed to eight miles an hour." This was in 1825. In 1875, just fifty years after, "The Times" reports that " Her Majesty... | |
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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... 
