October 2015
Intermediate to advanced
563 pages
15h 32m
English
One man had a vision of railways that would link all the mainline railroad termini. His name was Charles Pearson and, though born the son of an upholsterer, he became Solicitor to the city of London. There had previously been a plan for gaslit subway streets through which horse-drawn traffic could pass. This was rejected on the grounds that such sinister tunnels would become lurking places for thieves. Twenty years before his system was built, Pearson envisaged a line running through “a spacious archway,” well-lit and well-ventilated.
His was a scheme for trains in a drain.
—King Solomon’s Carpet, Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)
CHAPTER 3: SDN: Background and Motivation
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