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| Title | Stokers and Pokers, Or, The London and North-Western Railway, the Electric Telegraph, and the Railway Clearing-House Murray's colonial & home library Murray's home and colonial library |
| Author | Sir Francis Bond Head |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1861 |
| Length | 224 pages |
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