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The history of rail transport in Ireland began only a decade later than that of Great Britain.By its peak in 1920, Ireland had 3,500 route miles (5,630 km). The current status is less than half that amount, with a large unserviced area around the border area between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
"Mugby Junction" is a set of short stories written in 1866 by Charles Dickens and collaborators Charles Collins, Amelia B. Edwards, Andrew Halliday, and Hesba Stretton. It was first published in a Christmas edition of the magazine All the Year Round. Dickens penned a majority of the issue, including the frame narrative in which "the Gentleman ...
A Railway Atlas of Ireland - Hajducki, S Maxwell - David & Charles - 1974, ISBN 0-7153-5167-2 Johnsons Atlas and Gazetteer of the Railways of Ireland - Johnson, Stephen - 1997, ISBN 1-85780-044-3
The Staplehurst rail crash was a derailment at Staplehurst, Kent, on 9 June 1865 at 3:13 pm. The South Eastern Railway Folkestone to London boat train derailed while crossing a viaduct where a length of track had been removed during engineering works, killing ten passengers and injuring forty.
Straffan Station was on the Great Southern & Western Railway's main Dublin to Cork line, and had opened two years after the line itself in August 1848. Five years later, the third worst rail accident in Irish history occurred a quarter of a mile south of Straffan, when a goods train ran into the back of a stationary passenger train, causing eighteen deaths.
"The Signal-Man" is a horror mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round. The story is told from a fictional first-person perspective. The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him. Each ...
The bibliography of Charles Dickens (1812–1870) includes more than a dozen major novels, many short stories (including Christmas-themed stories and ghost stories), several plays, several non-fiction books, and individual essays and articles.
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