... means of travel appealed so powerfully to his imagination that he has never yet released his grip. lie accompanied George Francis Train, who brought the first tramcar to this country, and set it running on the Cheshire side of the Mersey, in the city ...

... A WONDROUS RECORD. The present generation have probably forgotten, if they have ever heard of, the existence of Mr. George Francis Train. They will find abundant matter for surprise and bewilderment in his autobiography, My Life in Many States and in ...

... of underground lines. The Modern Tramway. IL was in 1860 that the modern tramway was introduced into England by Mr. George Francis Train, who laid down a line in Birkenhead with step-rails, and in the following year constructed lines on the same system ...

... a snare.' Judge W. N. Keogh was often heard in 1837 at Cogers' Hall. Among other visitors were Edwin James, Q.C., George Francis Train, Captain Mayne Reid, James llannay, Mr. Justice Byrn; and Dickens. In earlier days a number of Jacobites were members ...

... Forgotten Books, edited by Ernest A. Baker, M.A. DEATH OF MR. G. F. TRAIN. Mr. George Francis Train has died of heart failure at a cheap lodging-house in New York. George Francis Train, who was born in 1829, was well known as a political speaker, lecturer, and ...

... lines, 'Twould seem u if Nature had curiously planned That mm's names with tbeir trades should agree, by the death of George Francis Train—the most picturesque citizen of the United States, as he was called at one timewho throughout his life was concerned ...

... The death of CITIZEN GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN, the strangest man in America, draws attention to his marvellous and numerous accomplishments during a unique life-pilgrimage, and In MY LIFE IN MANY STATES AND 6/- IN FOREIGN LANDS, 61- An Autobiography written ...

... Clifton's embarrassment as a non-politician in the present instance is a small affair compared with the experience of George Francis Train, from whom he derived his enthusiasm for tramway development. Train travelled over to Ireland from America in the Fenian ...

... associated all his life not with politics but with tramway construction. He was, as a lad, on the staff of the late George Francis Train when the first tramway in Europe was laid down in his native town of Birkenhead. It is in the promotion of electric ...

... iguset the:' had the monopoly of the passenger iztftc. The first tram was in Westminster Bridginroad anti w:ts laid by George Francis Trai'n, to whom the Vestry gave permission. As a result. the members who voted for the resolutioe, were charged at the Surrey ...

... be people with' whom this lay is successful; it is a pity. Margo Tombs% Must Not many now, perhaps, remember George Francis Train, who came over to London in the fifties to inaugurate the tramway system. Mr. Robert Barr tells, in the Idler, -of ...

... England knew nothing of them up to 1860, and Leo. don not until the following year. Vet long before the notorious George Francis Train burst upon Birkenhead the Times furnished evidence that not merely tramways but steam-propelled cars were urged upon ...