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INDEX. 



CLANNY, Dr., his safety-lamp, 107. 

 CLARK, EDWIN, C.E., 428, 431, 437. 

 CLAY ENGINES, G. Stephensou's modelling of, 



20, 29. 

 CLAY CROSS COLLIERY, G. Stephenson leases, 



358. 



CLAXTON, Captain, 432. 

 CLEGG and SAMUDA'S atmospheric railway, 



370. 

 CLEPHAN, Mr., description of first railway 



traffic, 173. 

 CLEVELAND, Duke of, and Stockton and 



Darlington Railway, 169. 

 CLOCK-MENDING and cleaning, 42, 61, 445, 



475. 

 COACH, first railway, 170 ; coaches and 



railways, 172, 345, 351. 

 COAL, trade, 3, 73; staiths, 11; haulage, 



early expedients for, 5, 8, 73, 87 ; traffic 



by railway, 169, 356 ; mining, G. Ste- 

 phenson's ventures in, 296 ; theory of 



formation of, 452, 475. 

 COALBROOKDALE, rails early cast at, 7, 

 COE, WILLIAM, fellow- workman of G. Ste- 



phenson, 24, 32, 42, 46. 

 COLLIERY DISTRICTS, 1, 4; machinery and 



workmen, 9. 

 COLOMBIA, mining association of, 242 ; Robert 



Stephenson's residence in, 245. 

 COMPANIES, joint-stock, formed to construct 



railways, 289. 



CONTRACTORS, railway, 229, 311, 316, 319. 

 CONWAY, tubular bridge at, 417, 429. 

 COOPER, Sir ASTLEY, Robert Stephenson's 



interview with, 305. 

 CORT'S pamphlet against railways, 303. 

 CRICH to limeworks at Ambergate, 359. 

 CROPPER, ISAAC, Liverpool, 234, 259, 272. 

 CROYDON AND WANDSWORTH RAILWAY, 180. 

 CUBITT, Sir WILLIAM, and Liverpool and 



Manchester Railway, 208. 

 CUGNOT'S STEAM-CARRIAGE, 75. 

 CURR, JOHN, his cast-iron railway at Sheffield, 



7. 



CUTTINGS, Railway, Tring, 312 ; Blisworth, 

 313; Ambergate, 333; Oakenshaw and 

 Normanton, 334. 



D. 



DAGGER MONEY, 3. 



DARLINGTON AND STOCKTON RAILWAY, 149. 



DAVY, Sir HUMPHRY, his description of 

 Trevithick's steam-carriage, 81 ; his paper 

 on fire-damp in mines, 108 ; his safety- 

 lamp, 117, 120; testimonial, 121. 



DENMAN, Lord, 445. 



DERBY, Earl of, 193, 307. 



DEWLY BURN COLLIERY, 19. 



DIRECT LINES, mania for, 378. 



FOSTER. 



DIXON, JOHN, C.E., assists in survey of 

 Stockton and Darlington Railway, 160, 

 166 ; assistant engineer on Liverpool and 

 Manchester Railway, 221, 236 ; surveys 

 Canterbury and Whitstable Railway, 290. 



DODDS, RALPH, Killiiigworth, 51, 55, 59, 

 101. 



DORDOGNE, suspension bridge over the, 390. 



DRAYTON MANOR, George Stephenson's visit 

 to, 450. 



DUNDONALD, Lord, his engine "Scorpion," 

 349. 



DUTTON VIADUCT, 326. 



i-:. 



EAST COAST RAILWAY to Scotland, 337, 4oO, 

 415. 



EDGWORTH, Mr. LOVELL, sailing waggons, 

 74; advocacy of railways, 79, 181. 



EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY, Robert Stephenson 

 at, 145. 



EDUCATION, George Stephenson's self-educa- 

 tion, 28, 40, 56, 63 ; of Robert Stephenson, 

 59, 143 ; George Stephenson's ideas of, 240, 

 362. 



EGG-HATCHING by artificial heat, 28, 444. 



EGYPTIAN TUBULAR BRIDGES, R. Stephen- 

 son's, 461. 



ELLIS, Mr., Leicester, 295. 



EMERSON, George Stephensou's meeting with, 

 455. 



EMIGRATION, George Stephenson contemplates, 

 48, 139. 



ENGINE, study of steam, 26, 37, 40, 93. 



ENGLISH and French Navvies, 323. 



ERICSSON, Mr., engineer, 256, 268. 



ESTIMATES, railway, 207, 217, 319, 337. 



EXAMINATION, George Stephenson's, before 

 Committee of House of Commons, 202. 



"EXPERIMENT," the first railway-coach, 170. 



EXPLOSIONS of fire-damp, 104. 



EVANS'S STEAM-CARRIAGE, 76. 



F. 



FAIRBAIRN, WILLIAM, C.E., at Percy Main 

 Colliery, 41 ; associated with Robert fc'te- 

 phenson in erecting tubular bridges, 425 ; 

 on the invention of the steam blast, 497. 



FIRE-DAMP, explosions of, 104. 



FIXED-ENGINE power, 141, 158, 165, 257. 



FLOATING a road on Chat Moss, 222. 



FLOATING the Conway and Britannia tubes, 

 432. 



FOLLETT, Sir WILLIAM, 451. 



FORTH STREET WORKS, Newcastle, 163, 242, 

 253, 360, 494. 



FOSTER, JONATHAN, Wylam, 89, 498. 



