“ Locke, M.P., and was associated with them in the construction of the Great Northern, the London and South-Western, the Midland, the Oxford and Cambridge, and the Hitchin and Royston Railways. In those days railway engineering was quite different from what it is now, and meant very hard work. ”

“ Engineers and surveyors, when setting out lines, had frequently to be accompanied by prize-fighters, and often started work during the Summer as early as three or four o'clock in the morning, owing to the opposition manifested by landowners to railways passing through and developing their estates, and were obliged to sit up and late into the night in order to plot their daily work for Parliamentary deposit. ”

“ The small number of living engineers which connect the present day with the commencement of the railway era has been still further diminished by the death of Mr. J. Bailey Denton, of Westminster, so long known in connection with the advancement of agriculture and civil engineering, who died on Sunday at Stevenage, Herts, in the 79th year of his age, having been born in November, 1814. In the 'forties Mr. Denton was connected with the late Mr. ”