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Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland

The following is from Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland by Joseph Tatlow:

  • Chapter I - Introductory
  • Chapter II - Boyhood
  • Chapter III - The Midland Railway and "King Hudson"
  • Chapter IV - Fashions and Manners, Victorian Days
  • Chapter V - Early Office Life
  • Chapter VI - Friendship
  • Chapter VII - Railway Progress
  • Chapter VIII - Scotland, Glasgow Life, and the Caledonian Line
  • Chapter IX - General Railway Acts of Parliament
  • Chapter X - A General Manager and his Office
  • Chapter XI - The Railway Jubilee, and Glasgow and South-Western Officers and Clerks
  • Chapter XII - TOM
  • Chapter XIII - Men I met and Friends I made
  • Chapter XIV - Terminals, Rates and Fares, and other Matters
  • Chapter XV - Further Railway Legislation
  • Chapter XVI - Belfast and the County Down Railway
  • Chapter XVII - Belfast and the County Down (continued)
  • Chapter XVIII - Railway Rates and Charges, the Block, the Brake, and Light Railways
  • Chapter XIX - Golf, the Diamond King, and a Steam-boat Service
  • Chapter XX - The Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland
  • Chapter XXI - Ballinasloe Fair, Galway, and Sir George Findlay
  • Chapter XXII - A Railway Contest, the Parcel Post, and the Board of Trade
  • Chapter XXIII - "The Railway News," the International Railway Congress, and a Trip to Spain and Portugal
  • Chapter XXIV - Tom Robertson, more about Light Railways, and the Inland Transit of Cattle
  • Chapter XXV - Railway Amalgamation and Constantinople
  • Chapter XXVI - A Congress at Paris, the Progress of Irish Lines, Egypt and the Nile
  • Chapter XXVII - King Edward, a Change of Chairmen, and more Railway Legislation
  • Chapter XXVIII - Vice-Regal Commission on Irish Railways, 1906-1910, and the Future of Railways
  • Chapter XXIX - The General Managers' Conference, Gooday's Dinner, and Divers Matters
  • Chapter XXX - From Manager to Director
  • Chapter XXXI - The Dominions' Royal Commission, the Railways of the Dominions, and Empire Development

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