Railway Travelling Risks
History is repeating itself. “Should the Prince of Wales take the risks of aerial travel?” London is asking. In June. 1842, a paragraph appeared in a London newspaper, expressing intense anxiety at the grave risk.s taken by Queen Victoria in making railway journeys.
“We are aware,” said the journal. “that every precaution is taken by the directors and managers of tac Great Western Railway when Her Majesty makes use of a special train, and, we are not less acquainted 'with the courage and absence from all fear from the mind of the Queen. But a long regency in the country would bo so fearful and tremendous an evil that these Royal railway excursions should be, if possible, either wholly abandonad or only occasionally resorted to.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 237, 6 October 1928, Page 18 (Supplement)
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128Railway Travelling Risks Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 237, 6 October 1928, Page 18 (Supplement)
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