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shortly be extended through the valley of the
Glommen, and thus complete the steam
communication between Trondhjem and Christiania. If
carried on throughout in the same sensible and
practical manner as at present, the journey over
it will be one of the most charming trips in
Europe.
The speed is about twelve miles an hour,
including stoppages; at this pace the beauties of the
country are visible and enjoyable, especially if a
second-class carriage with open sides be selected,
and there are such on this line.
If a railway company could be formed in
England and managed in the interest of its
shareholders, rather than those of its engineers and
contractors, by directors exceptionally endowed
with common sense, and with sufficient moral
courage to construct single narrow-gauge lines
with no great embankments, no tunnels, no deep
cuttings, but which should follow the ordinary
undulations of the country, only cutting off the
extreme inclines, as a first-rate carriage road should
do; and if in addition to this the directors had the
still grander moral courage to defy the ridicule
that would be poured upon them for limiting their
maximum speed to twelve or fifteen miles per
hour, every town and village in the United
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