And yet they were preceded

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And yet they were preceded

Can any one doubt which that one would be, by common consent signalizing thereby that which has conferred out of them all the greatest boon, and therefore indicating its intrinsic value to mankind ? It is not to be doubted that of all the gifts of the century, railways are the one it would be most difficult to part with. And yet they were preceded by every one of the other discoveries, except the telegraphic wire, which is but a corollary to the railway system, and would scarce have occurred to any one but for the previous establishment of railwayWewell remember witnessing the return of the experimental train which took the Duke of Wellington and others, on the day of the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester line, from one town to the other; the wonder expressed Tory Burch Flats at the rate of twenty miles an hour; the Duke's reconciliation with Mr. Huskisson on that memorable day; the crowds which so anxiously awaited the return; and the melancholy countenances which those returning carriages contained that had been eyewitnesses of Mr. Huskisson's terrible Tory Burch Outlet death. Sad, yet wonderful day ! and inscrutable to mortal eye As the immortal Havelock, so Huskisson was summoned at the dawn of the day of triumph for which their respective labours had laid the foundation, since it is clear that nothing really furnished the opportunities for the agitation for the freedom of trade more than the establishment of railwayBefore 1830 tramways had long been in extensive use for mining purpose In the county of Durham especially, much to the disgust of the squires of the Sedgfield hunt. And some four or five years anterior the Stockton and Darlington Railway, extending from the latter town to Middlesbro' in the North Riding of Yorkshire, had been in active working; but the speed in no case exceeded eight miles an hour. To the energy of the Peases and the South Durham Quakers this first work of the kind mainly owed its existenc The carriage of coal was of course the object. Middlesbro', then a barren waste, now a thriving boroughof 14,000 ov 15,000 inhabitants, but in 1828 might contain some halfdozen houses, was created as the outport.But for passenger traffic, how was the