... traced means locomotion trom the days Queen thoae of Queen Bew, and from those the Vicar Wakefield and tramways of George Francis Train. In icgard to the system, he congratalab-d Loudoneia the fact max under the Government of great William Ewart Gladstone ...

... the first London tramway a clerical error, for remember on© being in use. commencing at Westminster Bridge, and laid George Francis Train in 1861. The misfortune was he adopted one of the worst the obsolete trams that had been used in New York. The London ...

... PERSONAL. Mr. George Francis Train, whose death haa just occurred, followed profession that accorded well with hi, name, for was a great promoter of locomotion. London owed her first tramway to him, a fact that carries the American invasion of England ...

... STORY OF A STRANGE LIFE Mr. George Francis Train, America’s most picturesque citizen, died yesterday morning in the hotel where he lived during the later part of his life. Mr. Train was bom in Boston in 1829. Writing of his boyhood, spent on a farm and ...

... in the Endeavour, and it was he who gave its name Botany Bay. mentioned yesterday some cf the experiences the late George Francis Train, but not the fact that he almost became President Five-Star Republic. This was in the Australian goldfields, where ...

... (happily for only year) the present Government. The most interesting of the accounts that have appeared the late “Citizen” George Francis Train, the American eccentric and quasi-genius, is to found in T.l’.’s Weekly, where “One Who Knew Him” gives his recollections ...

... forcibly behalf of the London United Tramways, of which ho is chairman, began his career under the tutelage the late George Francis Train. In fact, like the gentleman who cleaned the windows for John Bellows, while the celebrated French dictionary wa« being ...

... TRIFLES LIGHT AS AIR. One of George Francis Train’s sayings was; I'euple call me insane. 1 don’t wonder. What would a village ot peanuts say if a coooannt rolled in among themP” Dean Pigou tells of two notices which were given out in church: The preacher ...

... HOLIDAYS BY TKAM. 64 Milaa of LoaJo* Suburb*. When in 1861 George Francis Train, at the opening the first Metropolitan passenger tramway in Bsjswster road, ss News reporter that the principal thoroughfares of London ars more suited to the tramway ...

... to-day ths first tramway in Great Britain was started in Birkenhead. It was the result of the work end invention of George Francis Train, who later on brought the system to London. the great and representative company present at the public demonstration ...

... IhOO. at Birkenhead. Sir Clifton Kobinson. hi* speech, gave some interesting reminiscences of bin connection with George Francis Train and the opening of the Birkenhead tramway. 'lrani was one of the few Americans he had ever met who never drank strong ...

... first tramway Europe was laid, on January Ist, 1848, and at the ago of twelve became a junior member of the staff of George Francis Train, and rode with him on the first car introduced into Great Britain. Train patented his system in 1880, and when came ...