| Year | 2022 |
| Date | 07-Oct |
| Volume | 229 |
| Issue | 4,701 |
| Page | 512 |
| Category | Railway |
| Part | 1 |
| Title | Victorian Silent Speed. The atmospheric railway and its successors |
| Author | Roger Backhouse |
| Notes | Looks at what seemed a good idea at the time. South Devon atmospheric railway, Newton Abbott museum (courtesy Newton Abbott Museum - thanks to Dr. Charlotte Dixon, Curator), vacuum engine to Lownes Patent by Hardy and Padmore, Ness Botanic Gardens Wirral, piston carriage, the atmospheric tube, Ireland leads the way, a record breaker, advantages, London's atmospheric railway, the Railway Mania and 'a rope of air', bust of I.K.Brunel |