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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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of thebiggest joint-stock corporations in the whole world. The Midland Railway Midland was the true name of this Company,for it was formed by a combination of several linesthat joined Leeds to Rugby, with branches toNottingham and Birmingham. The Companyspeedily got tired of handing its traffic over toothers at Rugby for conveyance to London orthe coast. In the year 1853, it was proposed toamalgamate the L. & N.W., the Great Western,and the Midland, but Parliament refused to assentto the scheme. Resolutely the Midland began to push outtowards the coast by means of extensions andleasing other lines; it got into Bristol as earlyas 1846, but not into London until 1857, andthen only by favour of the Great Northern. In1868, however, the Midland ran into the capitalon its own metals to St. Pancras; in 1875 itentered Liverpool, and in 1879 it commenced torun expresses from Newcastle-on-Tyne to Bristol. Nowadays the Midland is one of the mostubiquitous of our lines, as indicated by only a
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PLATE XIV.1. M.R. EXPRESS, BRADFORD TO LONDON. 2. ERECTING SHOP, DERBY WORKS- A GARLAND OF IRON RIBBONS 121 few of the outermost points of its many ramifica-tions, viz., London, Bristol, Swansea, Manchester,Carlisle, Lincoln, and Peterborough on its ownlines ; and by joint or leased lines to places as farapart as Liverpool and Lowestoft. When the section known as the Syston andPeterborough line was built, the surveyors met withthe most determined opposition from the Earlof Harborough, who objected to railways ingeneral, and that one in particular. The sur-veying party of seven dared not venture on tothe noblemans estate and endeavoured to carryout their operations from the canal towing-pathadjoining it. The earl summoned the chief canal officialsto the spot and obtained from them a documentwhich gave the nobleman authority to removetrespassers, but at the moment the surveyors werethe stronger party. The earl and the canalofficials went off to secure reinforcements, butwhile they were

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