YANKEE DEVELOPMENT

... YANKEE DEVELOPMENT. f The Alhentiiun reviewa an American publication from the at Ipen of George Francis Train :-Young America, which Mr. B Trahi represents, is not chargeable, with prolixity. That B gentleman'a didactic rate is by no means slow, and his ...

Published: Thursday 01 April 1858
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1479 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

HORSE RAILWAYS

... are applying to the town council for permission to lay down rails from the top of Lordastreet to the Old Swan, Mr. George Francis Train, the agent of several American capitalists who seek to introduce the American system of horse railways into Europe ...

Published: Friday 03 February 1860
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1577 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

DEPARTURE OF DISTINGUISHED DELEGATES TO THE PUGILISTIC CONGRESS

... and Yankee, notions abroad. They have bdd the Collias j steamers, and Hobb's locks, and MII'Cormick's reapers, and v George Francis Train's city railways, and.- Colt's re- volvess, and the '-Black - Swan; and Goodyear's over- a shoes and Triet's washing ...

Published: Monday 09 April 1860
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1194 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LIVERPOOL NEWS

... Birkenbsead at least. The di agitation in this neighbourhood has been got up and main. tained by an American, named Mr. George Francis Train, tr who is not altogether unknown to British readers as an tb Australian agent and a-post-prandial orator; and the ...

Published: Tuesday 24 April 1860
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 742 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION

... dis- cussion, which has taken place during the whole meeting, occurred to-day, in the Mechanical Section, when Mr. George Francis Train, of Boston, United States, read a paper on ,Stieat Railways, which have been adopted in America with so much success ...

Published: Wednesday 04 July 1860
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 757 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION

... 80011 was thle case it certainly requsired s015e furtlser consideration. al SEcTIo.N G.-Yeerhanlival 8vienee'. 0e Mr. George Francis Train, of Boston, ?? delivered rthe following interesting lecture on Street Railways 11I cannot bettor appreciate your courtesy ...

Published: Saturday 07 July 1860
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 36244 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

EDINBURGH, THURSDAY, AUG. 9, 1860

... foolish the proposition laid be- fore the Town Council the other day by 'that; pushing and self-confident American, Mr , George Francis Train, to establish horse, i railways or tramways in the principal Athe- roughfares of Edinburgh. It may be at once eonceded ...

Published: Thursday 09 August 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3198 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

TRIAL TRIP ON THE FIRST STREET RAILWAY IN ENGLAND

... and what benefits they can confer, lisay now be learned in Birkenhlitd. We stated solose few months ago that Mrr. George Francis Train had come to Liver- pool as the representative of a tompany formed for the construotion of street railways in Europe ...

Published: Thursday 30 August 1860
Newspaper: Morning Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1066 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

OPENING OF THE FIRST TRAMWAY IN ENGLAND

... railway in England tooki place to-day at Birkenhead, and the event was celebrateil ly a grand banquet given by Mr. George Francis Train, the patcntee for Europe. Tile opening of the line 1vas attended with the most perfect success throughout, all the ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 1860
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1843 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

DAILY AND PERIODICAL PRESS

... .-The first street railway in ?? Britian wasa opened on Thureday, at Birkethead. The patentee is anr American, Mr. George Francis Train ; and for his system he claims the follow. ing advantages :- Saving of time-no-jolting-less confusion-less noire-fewer ...

Published: Friday 07 September 1860
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 5834 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

METROPOLITAN STREET RAILWAYS

... General Omnibus Corn- t panty, consisting of M-essr s. Lace, Church, andi Wilkinson, I were presgent, as weisa also Mr. George Francis Train and Mr'. Curtis. Mr. GIttEaETWEL, [tsl vestry clerk, opened the proceedings by setting thle applications of the three ...

Published: Monday 15 October 1860
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2582 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

INQUIRY INTO THE LOSS OF THE TRANSPORT SHOP CONWAY

... now near Torquay ; though not so socell bodily as all A'ish him to be, yet mentally as brilliant as ever.-I an], k., GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN. THE GREAT FLOAT Door, AT BIRXESHEAD.- The gigantic dock at Birkenhead is rapidiy approaching completion, and it ...

Published: Tuesday 16 October 1860
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4387 | Page: 6 | Tags: News