Eureka Reporter | 1904-03-25 | Page 6 | One of the First Locomotives

one of the F ves I 1 was a youth of eighteen and al ready earning my living in a govern ment office when the railway first reached london writes a correspond ent and I 1 was one of the arst to risi my life by tra el ng in the wake of a puffing billy to airm engham and the puffing lly steam ng to m engham at 20 M les an hour back at the breakneck speed 0 awen t miles an hour I 1 don t mind con f easing that my heart was in my mouth most of the time but I 1 s r the ordeal and felt qu to a hero tor weeks after