An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent (1885) (14737656296)

Identifier: illustrateddescr00lond (find matches)
Title: An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Railroads -- Great Britain Europe -- Guidebooks England -- Guidebooks
Publisher: (London) : Morton & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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next years work theCalais-Douvres will be able to accomplish the journey, under favourableconditions, in little more than the hour. If this be achieved, the questionof the Channel Tunnel will practically be at an end. She is constmcted tocarry 1,000 passengers, and can attain a speed of more than fifteen milesper hour. There are four diflerent saloons, one containing seven roomyprivate cabins, luxuriously fitted with sofas and tables. These can be securedin advance at London or Paris. The upper deck extends across bothvessels, whilst through a wooden grating in the middle can be seen the spraythrown up by the working paddle-wheels. All honour is due to the Com-pany which has practically solved the question of the middle passage. The view which we have engraved is produced from one that originallyappeared in the pages of the • Illustrated London News, and the right touse it in its present form has with great courtesy been placed at our disposalby the proprietors of that journal. 200
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liiijll, iHiifcilNliillM: ii r- -s5=tr^ CALAIS. Let every craft that carries sail and gun steer towards Calais. Tennyson—Queen Mary. Calais, the last British possession in PYance, the loss of which made anEnglish queen utter her memorable lamentation that after her death theword Calais would be found graven upon her heart, is best knownto travellers in modern days in connection with the Royal Mail serviceto Paris by the route of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Com-pany. Its harbour has, from time to time, been improved, and consistsof a quay and of piers that stretch into the sea, and—like the rampartsround the town—form an agreeable promenade. One of the most strikingobjects is the pillar erected to commemorate the return of Louis XVIII. toFrance, on which was formerly written the inscription : Le 24 A\Til, 1814,S.M. Louis XVIII. debarqua vis-a-vis de cette Colonne et fut enfin rendu kIamour des Fran^ais; pour en perpetuer le souvenir la ville de Calais aeleve ce monumen