Excerpt from Fifty Years on the London North Western Railway: And Other Memoranda in the Life of David Stevenson N the leafy month of June, 1837, when the heralds were proclaiming the Princess Victoria queen of these realms. One of the most humble and loyal of her future subjects entered the service of the new method of locomotion called the Railway. That child of scientific invention had just begun to stretch its powerful limbs over the length and breadth of the land, and was destined to be one of the greatest influences towards the prosperity and progress of the good Queen's long and brilliant reign. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.