Victorian Railways Design

Famous quotes containing the words victorian, railways and/or design:

    “I belong to the fag-end of Victorian liberalism, and can look back to an age whose challenges were moderate in their tone, and the cloud on whose horizon was no bigger than a man’s hand.”
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)

    “There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.”
    —H.G. (Herbert George)

    “You can make as good a design out of an American turkey as a Japanese out of his native stork.”
    —For the State of Illinois, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)