Patent First-Class Costume for the Collision Season Finish:Rolled c1750 with a street scene

c1750 with a street scene and horse drawn vehicles

With spectators watching from roof and windows of building and on street

and London in the distance

Monument and St Dunstan in the East

Patent First-Class Costume for the Collision Season Finish:Rolled c1750 with a street scene'Patent First Class Costume for the Collision Season', 1876. Travel by train was a risky business in the 1870s and collisions were not uncommon. The two men in this cartoon are well prepared for any eventuality. This was a regular topic in Punch as the journal often highlighted the lack of proper investment in the country's railway network. From Punch, or the London Charivari, August 19, 1876.