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Fifty Years of Railway Life

by Joseph Tatlow

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  1. 1Note — Chapter I — Introductory
  2. 2Chapter II — Boyhood
  3. 3Chapter III — The Midland Railway and “King Hudson”
  4. 4Chapter IV — Fashions and Manners, Victorian Days
  5. 5Chapter V — Early Office Life
  6. 6Chapter VI — Friendship
  7. 7Chapter VII — Railway Progress
  8. 8Chapter VIII — Scotland, Glasgow Life, and the Caledonian Line
  9. 9Chapter IX — General Railway Acts of Parliament
  10. 10Chapter X — A General Manager and His Office
  11. 11Chapter XI — The Railway Jubilee, and Glasgow and South-Western Off…
  12. 12Chapter XII — Tom
  13. 13Chapter XIII — Men I Met and Friends I Made
  14. 14Chapter XIV — Terminals, Rates and Fares, and Other Matters
  15. 15Chapter XV — Further Railway Legislation
  16. 16Chapter XVI — Belfast and the County Down Railway
  17. 17Chapter XVII — Belfast and the County Down — (Continued)
  18. 18Chapter XVIII — Railway Rates and Charges, the Block, the Brake, an…
  19. 19Chapter XIX — Golf, the Diamond King, and a Steam-Boat Service
  20. 20Chapter XX — The Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland
  21. 21Chapter XXI — Ballinasloe Fair, Galway, and Sir George Findlay
  22. 22Chapter XXII — A Railway Contest, the Parcel Post, and the Board of…
  23. 23Chapter XXIII — The “Railway News,” the International Railway Congr…
  24. 24Chapter XXIV — Tom Robertson, More About Light Railways, and the In…
  25. 25Chapter XXV — Railway Amalgamation and Constantinople
  26. 26Chapter XXVI — A Congress at Paris, the Progress of Irish Lines, Eg…
  27. 27Chapter XXVII — King Edward, a Change of Chairmen, and More Railway…
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII — Vice-Regal Commission on Irish Railways, 1906-1910…
  29. 29Chapter XXIX — The General Managers’ Conference, Gooday’s Dinner, a…
  30. 30Chapter XXX — From Manager to Director
  31. 31Chapter XXXI — The Dominions’ Royal Commission, the Railways of the…
  32. 32Chapter XXXII — Conclusion

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