"I observe you have thought proper to insert the last number of the Philosophical Magazine your opinion that my attemp…"

"I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway. I am much obliged by the favo…"

"To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after t…"

"The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay."

"I was threatened to be ducked in the pond if I proceeded, and of course we had a great deal of the survey to take by …"

"I got leave to go from Killingworth to lay down a railway at Hetton, and next to Darlington, and after that I went to…"

"This railway is the most absurd scheme that ever entered into the head of a man to conceive. Mr. Stephenson never had…"

"Left home in company with John Dixon to attend the internment of George Stephenson at Chesterfield. I fear he died an…"

"George Stephenson told me as a young man that railways will supersede almost all other methods of conveyance in this …"

"Interviewer: The Shroud, the large linen sheet bearing marks consistent with the torture and crucifixion of Christ, n…"