Identifier: everyboysbookofr00prot (find matches)
Title: Every boy's book of railways and steamships
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Protheroe, Ernest
Subjects: Railroads Steamboats
Publisher: London : Religious Tract Society
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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tory in the course of twenty-four hours;the weekly average is about 370, although atexceptional times the number has risen to 500.Since the opening of the establishment about400,000 visitors have enjoyed the hospitality ofthis railway mans hotel, for which a charge ofIs. Sd. is made, which is half the amount allowedby the Company for lodging purposes. The founder of the Dormitory retired fromoffice at the end of 1907, and was succeeded byhis son, Mr. S. D. Holden, who takes the liveliestinterest in the institution, and the men who useit. When pressure of work has kept the Loco-motive Superintendent, day and night, for awhole week at Stratford, he has not hesitatedto make use of the Dormitory, as though hewere an engine man himself, which is an excellenttestimonial to the comforts offered by the rest-house. The South-Eastern and Chatham Railway isa working combination of the South-Eastern andthe London, Chatham and Dover lines. The totallength of line is 646 miles ; passengers carried.
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A GARLAND OF IRON RIBBONS 145 60,000,000; locomotives, 748. The longest non-stop runs are Victoria to Dover, 78 J miles;Charing Cross to Folkestone Junction, 71 miles ;and St. Pauls to Margate, 74 miles. The London, Brighton and South Coast Rail-way has 483 miles of line ; passengers, 48,000,000 ;and 535 locomotives, some of the latest of whichare heavy tank engines fitted with superheatersfor express work. The quickest train is fromVictoria to Newhaven, 56 miles in 81 mins. ThisCompany introduced Pullman cars over thirtyyears ago and, unlike the Midland, has retainedthem. Over thirty of them are in constant usebetween London and various South Coast water-ing places. The Southern Belle express(Plate XX) commenced running in November,1908; Pullman cars are used exclusively, andmake the train probably the best appointed andthe most luxurious in the whole world. The East Coast Eoute to Scotland is theshortest and quickest, for racing records arenot always reduced to actual time-table pra

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