HE HAD NEVER SEEN A LOCOMOTIVE.
Recently in Victoria a man, aged between eighty and ninety, undertook a long journey for the express purpose of having a ride in a railway train. He arrived in Port Fairy in 1840 and has a son resident in the district of the age of fifty-three, but up to last month be had never seen a locomotive.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9305, 4 January 1896, Page 7
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63HE HAD NEVER SEEN A LOCOMOTIVE. Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9305, 4 January 1896, Page 7
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