Title

Arrival of Christmas Train, Eastern Counties Railway - drawn by Duncan, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Arrival of Christmas Train, Eastern Counties Railway - drawn by Duncan, 1850. Porters unloading Christmas parcels at a station. Illustration to a poem by D. Has the Parcels Train arrived?...See you not it has? What else The traffic and the strife compels?...Those countless scores of ducks and geese, Those pheasants, turkeys - prophecies, Of coming hospitalities? That Train, like a chest, so titanic in size, Is a shrine that holds Gifts for both simple and wise...There box and bandbox, and hamper and all, Will be rummaged...by big and by small - By Peter and Thomas, by Philip and Paul...Great aunt and kind cousin, et cetera - The donors of all sorts of Christmas cheer - Be named with a blessing, perhaps with a tear, For all the good things these packets contain, To the station now brought by the Parcels Train'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM22A36_104

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46,6Mb (6,6Mb) / 16,5in x 10,9in / 4960 x 3282 (300dpi)

Keywords

travel transport transportation female women woman people male work job busy man men communication communications railways train religious arts worker religion guy occupation British post mail railway station Christianity luggage railway station Victorian century platform train station Britain steam train profession unloading newspapers press literature porter porters concept delivery parcel parcels B&W hamper christmas present engraved engraving Christmas Presents dais 19th century poem poetry black & white black and white B W nineteenth century steam locomotive workers The Print Collector Illustrated London News ILN christmas newspaper Unknown Eastern Counties Railway 19th-century Duncan hampers luggage van