"I feel assured, that in future ages the works of our English engineers on these ghats will take the place of their de…"

"A single glance upon the map recalling to mind the vast extent of the empire we hold, the various classes and interes…"

"It might have been supposed that the building of 30,000 miles of railways would have brought a measure of prosperity …"

"They [third-class railway carriages] are discreditable-looking places where there is no order, no cleanliness but utt…"

"Thailand has railways and the British never colonised the country,... In 1885, when the British invaded Burma, the Bu…"

"...but even after Dalhousie had put his hand to the work, and the Company had responded to his efforts, it was the mo…"

"The most powerful teacher was the Indian railway, which despite some gloomy prophecies, had attained immediate popula…"

"Though the initial proposal for building railways in India was mooted in 1844 by East Indian Railway and subsequently…"

"In the second half of the nineteenth century, railway fever had infected Russia, Asia, Latin America and the Middle E…"

"Operations were commenced in January, 1883, so the works have now been some twenty months in progress, and about 170,…"