The Official Illustrated Guide to the South-Eastern Railway and All Its Branches (Classic Reprint)Excerpt from The Official Illustrated Guide to the South-Eastern Railway and All Its Branches The south-bastem Railway is one of the most important lines in England, opening, in the first place, a direct and rapid communi cation with the Continent by the way of Folkestone and Dover, and visiting on its road many important stations connected with popu lous towns and thriving rural districts; affording, also, a rapid means of transit to several favourite watering-places which before its establishment were Virtually at a day's distance from London instead of three or four hours; and, lastly, furnishing, with its branches, ready means of access to places in various parts of the southern counties not before traversed by railways, and thus enabling persons to reach other lines without the necessity of going to London to avail themselves of the metropolitan trains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
