Slide Show Images:

For “The Signalman,” The Uncommercial Traveller, and Dombey and Son

Signalmen

· The Metropolitan Underground Railway, Illustrated London News, 1863

· Signalman’s station at King’s Cross (detail)

· Signalman’s station at King’s Cross—Interior (detail)

Railway Accidents

• Fatal railway accident at Kentish-Town, Illustrated London News, 1861
• Goods-train on fire run into by an express mail-train on the Caledonian Railway, Illustrated London News, 1867
• Railway accident at Thirsk, Illustrated London News, 1892

The City and Railway Construction

• The Metropolitan District Railway in the making alongside the Thames at Westminster, Illustrated London News, 1869
• J. C. Bourne, the scene near Park Street, Camden, as immortalized by Charles Dickens in Dombey and Son (as “Staggs’ Gardens”), lithograph, 1839

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