Since the invention of printing, no discovery has been made that has exercised so great a change and produced such remarkable and beneficial results to the whole human race as has the introduction of railways and that of steam carriages. By steam-locomotive power distance has been comparatively annihilated, and in conjunction with steam navigation, it has practically reduced the dimensions of the earth. — the Illustrated London News (October 1864)

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Lough's Victorian Railway Engineer

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Victorian Literature and the Railway

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