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At these words Pincher took a spurt and had to be held in, lest they should overtake the wagon. They had crossed the railroad, leaving Wolverton with its handful of twinkling lights to the eastward, and now a line of the Peak was gleaming, a narrow white crescent, above the long, low rise of ground to the west.
WOLVERTON WORKSHOPS. To attempt a description of the workshops of Wolverton without the aid of diagrams and woodcuts would be a very unsatisfactory task.
"The Derby has always been the one event in the racing year which statesmen, philosophers, poets, essayists, and litterateurs desire to see once in their lives. A few years since Mr. Gladstone was induced by Lord Granville and Lord Wolverton to run down to Epsom on the Derby day.
At Wolverton may be seen collected together in companies, each under command of its captains or foremen, in separate workshops, some hundreds of the best handicraftsmen that Europe can produce, all steadily at work, not without noise, yet without confusion.
Blenheim contains a large number of first class paintings, including an altar-piece by Raffaelle, several good Titians, a very fine collection of Rubens, choice specimens of Vandyke and Sir Joshua Reynolds. After returning to Bletchley our next halt is at Wolverton station.
"The Derby has always been the one event in the racing year which statesmen, philosophers, poets, essayists, and litterateurs desire to see once in their lives. A few years since Mr. Gladstone was induced by Lord Granville and Lord Wolverton to run down to Epsom on the Derby day.
To keep this rolling stock up in number and efficiency, there are two establishments, one at Camden Town, and one at Wolverton. Camden Town is the great coach house of the line, where goods waggons are built and repaired in one division, where sound locomotives, carriages and trucks are kept ready for use in another.
Wolverton remarked that every one knew of those who had navigated the entire series of canyons, but that few people knew of those who had been unsuccessful. He knew of seven parties that had failed to get through Cataract Canyon's forty-one miles of rapids, with their boats, most of them never being heard of again.
The following table will show what the alteration has been: | 1849. | 1884. | |Speed miles|Speed miles| | per hour. | per hour. | + + + Great Western London to Didcot. | 56 | | " " to Swindon. | | 53 | North-Western Euston to Wolverton. | 37 | | " Northampton to Willesden. | | 51½ | South-Western Waterloo to Farnborough. | 39 | | " Yeovil to Exeter. | | 46 | Brighton London Bridge to Reigate. | 36 | | " Victoria to Eastbourne. | | 45 | Midland Derby to Masborough. | 43 | | " London to Kettering. | | 47 | North-Eastern York to Darlington. | 38 | | " " | | 50 | Great Eastern London to Broxbourne. | 29 | | " Lincoln to Spalding. | | 49 | Great Northern King's Cross to Grantham.| | 51 | Cheshire Lines Manchester to Liverpool. | | 51 | + + +
At the end of June a voyage from Wolverton was accomplished, which yielded remarkable results of much real value and interest. The previous night had been perfectly calm, and through nearly the whole morning the sun shone in a clear blue sky, without a symptom of wind or coming change. Shortly before noon, however, clouds appeared aloft, and the sky assumed an altered aspect.
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