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Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland By: Joseph Tatlow (1851-1929) |
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This eBook was prepared by Les Bowler. FIFTY YEARS OF RAILWAY LIFE IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND
by Joseph Tatlow Director Midland Great Western Railway or Ireland and Dublin and
Kingstown Railway; a Member of Dominions Royal Commission, 1912 1917;
late Manager Midland Great Western Railway, etc. Published in 1920 by The Railway Gazette, Queens Anne's Chambers,
Westminster, London, S.W.1. [The Author: tatlow.jpg]
CONTENTS.
I. Introductory
II. Boyhood
III. The Midland Railway and "King Hudson"
IV. Fashions and Manners, Victorian Days
V. Early Office Life
VI. Friendship
VII. Railway Progress
VIII. Scotland, Glasgow Life, and the Caledonian Line
IX. General Railway Acts of Parliament
X. A General Manager and his Office
XI. The Railway Jubilee, and Glasgow and South Western Officers and
Clerks
XII. TOM
XIII. Men I met and Friends I made
XIV. Terminals, Rates and Fares, and other Matters
XV. Further Railway Legislation
XVI. Belfast and the County Down Railway
XVII. Belfast and the County Down (continued)
XVIII. Railway Rates and Charges, the Block, the Brake, and Light
Railways
XIX. Golf, the Diamond King, and a Steam boat Service
XX. The Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland
XXI. Ballinasloe Fair, Galway, and Sir George Findlay
XXII. A Railway Contest, the Parcel Post, and the Board of Trade
XXIII. "The Railway News," the International Railway Congress, and a
Trip to Spain and Portugal
XXIV. Tom Robertson, more about Light Railways, and the Inland Transit
of Cattle
XXV. Railway Amalgamation and Constantinople
XXVI. A Congress at Paris, the Progress of Irish Lines, Egypt and the
Nile
XXVII. King Edward, a Change of Chairmen, and more Railway Legislation
XXVIII. Vice Regal Commission on Irish Railways, 1906 1910, and the
Future of Railways
XXIX. The General Managers' Conference, Gooday's Dinner, and Divers
Matters
XXX. From Manager to Director
XXXI. The Dominions' Royal Commission, the Railways of the Dominions,
and Empire Development
XXXII. Conclusion
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
The Author
George Hudson, the "Railway King"
Sir James Allport
W. J. Wainwright
Edward John Cotton
Walter Bailey
Sir Ralph Cusack, D. L.
William Dargan
The Dargan Saloon
Sir George Findlay
Sir Theodore Martin
The Gresham Salver
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY
North West Donegal. A fine afternoon in September. The mountain ranges
were bathed in sunshine and the scarred and seamy face of stern old
Errigal seemed almost to smile. A gentle breeze stirred the air and the
surface of the lakes lay shimmering in the soft autumnal light. The blue
sky, flecked with white cloudlets, the purple of the heather, the dark
hues of the bogs, the varied greens of bracken, ferns and grass, the gold
of ripening grain, and the grey of the mountain boulders, together formed
a harmony of colour which charmed the eye and soothed the mind. I had been travelling most of the day by railway through this delightful
country, not by an express that rushed you through the scenery with
breathless haste, but by an easy going mixed train which called at every
station. Sometimes its speed reached twenty five miles an hour, but
never more, and because of numerous curves and gradients for it was a
narrow gauge and more or less a surface line the rate of progress was
much less during the greater part of the journey. The work of the day was over. My companion and I had dined at the
Gweedore Hotel, where we were staying for the night. With the setting
sun the breeze had died away. Perfect stillness and a silence deep,
profound and all pervading reigned. I had been talking, as an old
pensioner will talk, of byegone times, of my experiences in a long
railway career, and my companion, himself a rising railway man, seemed
greatly interested. As we sauntered along, the conversation now and
again lapsing into a companionable silence, he suddenly said: "Why don't
you write your reminiscences? They would be very interesting, not only
to us younger railway men, but to men of your own time too... Continue reading book >>
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