CHAPTER XXIII. 



E ABLY DAYS OF RAILJVAYS (Contimied). 



SEEiNa how far railway-travelling has surpassed the 

 expectations of its most sanguine supporters in early 

 days, it is of course just possible that the road-loco- 

 motive system, if taken up by the public, might in 

 like manner have far exceeded the expectations of 

 those who were at one time considered somewhat 

 visionary, and too much prejudiced in its favour to 

 be relied on. 



The great labour and perseverance of Colonel 

 Maceroni is clear from the journeys he performed ; 

 for instance, he ran his locomotives every day for 

 eighteen months, and by way of giving the public 

 an opportunity of seeing what he could do, adver- 

 tised in the papers that he would take any per- 

 sons who wished to have a ride and a good dinner 

 besides to Harrow, or to ox from Edgware ; to the 

 former of which places the road for a distance of 

 two miles is steeper than any hUl between London 

 and York, or London and Dover, and in addition 



