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CHEAP LOCOMOTION BY TRAMCAR AND TRACTION STEAM ENGINES

... Having achieved so much, we are apt to forget the original hand which introduced the tramway system to England—that of GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN, who was indecorously laughed out of coun- tenance as a fool, and something of a mad- man. It is. ever so with pioneers ...

Published: Wednesday 20 August 1879
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1038 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

A TRAIN IN MOTION

... A TRAIN IN MOTION. Our old friend, GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN, is not dead. but lives and races along the track with more than pristine velocity. He has probably given up dreams of the Pre , idency : that horse refused to run. But he keeps his eagle eye on ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1879
Newspaper: Prescot Reporter
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 580 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WRECKS AND CASUALTIES,

... manifest.—lam, air, you is, &c.. One the Sufferers. August 21. CAIXTS JULIUS CiESAR” TO THE EDITOR OP THE GLOBE. Sir, —Mr- George Francis Train was in t!ie habit of speaking familiarly of the conqueror of Gaul and Britain “the late Cresar of Borne. In a far ...

Published: Friday 22 August 1879
Newspaper: Globe
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1323 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE DARLINGTON AND RICHMOND HERALD

... death, two for cremation. The sufferer wakes as bright as a bu.fon.—Geneva Ginbottle. There was not a word in it that George Francis Train need have been ashamed of.—Stockholm Semaphore. Worthy of the land of Shakespeare and Samuels Brothers. —.loppa Jam-tart ...

Published: Saturday 16 August 1879
Newspaper: Darlington & Richmond Herald
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 1733 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ADDAMS AND INQUIrf MICE DAILY TILIGRAJW, NIMPORT. TO LDNIDITIPTI AND Tel PUILIO

... rczportiblo *Wows osprolood by oz podoratol Dun Stit,—Strest whin properly arodsoad and worked. ax o ft boom to th, public; George Francis Train, the laid down a short leogth, ss au ezpii7iintnt, In ono of th e a t of Liverpool. It 4 down before the of the Como ...

Published: Monday 04 August 1879
Newspaper: South Wales Daily Telegram
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2303 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

(nye Azglolantritan timts,

... weather comes along as foretold by the Herald, it will cap the elimax. Were it not for his little packets of papers, George Francis Train might fail to keep the pub lie aware that he still lives. The Repudiator is issued from his headquarters at Madison-square ...

Published: Friday 29 August 1879
Newspaper: Anglo-American Times
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2892 | Page: 14 | Tags: none