The book The Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer was written by author Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 Here you can read free online of The Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer a good or bad book?
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The " Experiment," being found too heavy for one horse to draw between Stockton and Darling- ton, besides being found an uncomfortable machine, was banished to the coal district, and ran for a time between Darlington and Shildon. Its place on the line between Stockton and Darlington was supplied by other and better vehicles, — though they were no other than old stage coach bodies, which were purchased by the company, mounted upon an underframe with flange wheels, and let out to the coaching com...panies, who horsed and managed them under an arrangement as to tolls, in like manner as the "Experiment" had been worked. Now began the distinction of inside and outside passengers, equivalent to first and second class. CHAP. XVII.] EIVAL COACH COMPANIES. 203 paying different fares. The competition with each other upon the railway, and with the ordinary stage coaches upon the road, soon brought up the speed, which was increased to ten miles an hour — the mail coach rate of travelling In those days, and considered very fast.
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