LORD TENNYSON’S FIRST TRAIN RIDE
The recent centenary of the Liver-pool-Mancliester Railway recalls the first experience of Lord Tennyson in a train on that line, and the interesting sequel. He was engaged in writing “Locksley Hall,” with its profound prophecy of “aerial navies grappling in the central blue,” and of “the federation of the world.” The poet entertained a curious misconception about the running system. He thought that the train wheels ran in grooves, and he wrote in that wonderful poem: Let the great world spin for ever Down the ringing grooves of time. The poet explained his impression afterwards. He said that as it was dark at the time, and the stations were O' sy, he was unable io observe the flanged wheel method of running.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 17 January 1931, Page 2
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