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At Didcot one of the ostlers was so much overcome by patriotic emotions and the 1760 brandy that he found it impossible to do up the buckles of the harness. The night began to grow chilly, and Sir Ferdinando found that it was not enough to take a nip at every stage: to keep up his vital warmth he was compelled to drink between the stages as well. They were approaching Swindon.
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 | + + +
But he went on to Didcot, where he certainly got out, found the Oxford train, and that same afternoon walked into his master's rooms at Christ Church. One other action of his deserves to be recorded, for it affords an instance of how nearly dogs approach at times to human beings.
Then, all such thoughts faded from her mind; she looked out of the carriage window as the train rushed through Didcot Junction. She felt hungry after the meagre breakfast she had made; she remembered the sandwiches, and, untying the greasy little parcel, was glad to eat them.
There is the village of Little Wittenham, in our county of Berks, not far from Sinodun Hill, an ancient earthwork covered with trees, that forms so conspicuous an object to the travellers by the Great Western Railway from Didcot to Oxford. About forty years ago terrible things were done in the church of that village. The vicar was a Goth.
After a long and pleasurable programme, it was decided that we should prolong our visit till the next evening, leaving Oxford at half-past ten o'clock at night and driving to Didcot, there to join the mail for the west. We rose late the next morning and spent the day rambling among the old colleges and gardens of the most beautiful of English cities.
At the beginning of January he left Bristol for Bath, and from Bath, in the company of a sergeant of police, travelled by way of Didcot to Oxford. The officer had in his custody a young woman charged with stealing L40. Peace and the sergeant discussed the case during the journey. "He seemed a smart chap," said Peace in relating the circumstances, "but not smart enough to know me."
These engines take the fast trains to the West of England; the Flying Dutchman averages 170 tons gross load, and runs at a mean time-table speed of 53 miles per hour, which allowing for starting, stopping, and slowing down to 25 miles per hour through Didcot gives a speed of nearly 60 miles an hour.
Most of you have probably travelled down the Great Western Railway as far as Swindon. Those of you who did so with their eyes open have been aware, soon after leaving the Didcot station, of a fine range of chalk hills running parallel with the railway on the left-hand side as you go down, and distant some two or three miles, more or less, from the line.
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