Mugby Junction

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Mugby Junction by Charles Dickens is the extra Christmas number of All the Year Round, 1866, and its index lists Barbox Brothers, Barbox Brothers & Co., The Boy at Mugby and The Signalman, each by Charles Dickens. Branch lines in the index carry further pieces titled The Engine Driver, The Compensation House, The Travelling Post-Office and The Engineer.

A traveller called Barbox Brothers asks Mr. Lamps where he sang the songs, whether in a public-house, and Mr. Lamps returns the curious reply Bedside. Another speaker recalls that before the railway the driver of the mail-coach was the biggest man he knew, and that he thought he should like to be the conductor of an orchestra. Another narrator tells of a man who, dismissed as convalescent, tottered out through the hospital gates leaning on the narrator's arm, feeble as an infant, and whose lungs were injured beyond hope of remedy.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius.