ged on nearly all the railways started in North and Central
Wales, and later on the Sardinian railways, where he formed a close
intimacy with Garibaldi. He returned to Marchwiel Hall, near Wrexham,
where he laid out one of the finest cricket grounds in the Kingdom. He
was a J. P. for Denbighshire and declined many invitations to enter
Parliament.

{20} The original station at Newtown was a wooden shed still in the
station yard, but now used as a coal merchant's office.

{34} Mr. Howell's yeoman services in promoting these local lines was
appropriately recognized by his fellow-citizens in tangible fashion. The
Howell family have in their possession a silver inkstand, bearing the
following inscription:--"Presented by the Inhabitants of the Town and
neighbourhood of Welshpool To Abraham Howell, Esq., In grateful
acknowledgement of his exertions in obtaining a railway through the
County of Montgomery, July, 1855."

{40} A mysterious measurement arrived at, according to Mr. F. S.
Williams, an authority on the history of railway construction, on no
scientific data, but due to the fact that the old "way leaves," or wooden
rails, put down to economise the wear and tear of colliery trains, were
so adapted to admit of the wagons passing through five feet gateways.

{42} Mr. Abraham Howell's evidence before Lord Stanley's Committee,
1862.

{43} Afterwards called Buttington.

{51} The rebuilding of this bridge, only completed last year, was the
last large engineering work accomplished on the Cambrian system prior to
its amalgamation with the Great Western.

{54} The Board given in "Bradshaw's Shareholders' Guide" for 1860 is
Earl Vane (Chairman); Sir W. W. Wynn (Vice-Chairman); Mr. Robert Davies
Pryce, Cyfronydd, Montgomeryshire, and Mr. John Foulkes, Aberdovey, with
Mr. David Howell, secretary, Messrs R. and B. Piercy, engineers, and
Messrs. Howell and Morgan, Machynlleth, solicitors.

{63} The Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway Company, of which the
original directors were Messrs. David Williams, Deudreath Castle,
(Chairman); Jasper Wilson Johns, 46, Cumberland Street, Hyde Park,
London, and Rhiwport, Welshpool, (Vice Chairman); William Lawrence Banks,
Walton House, Brecon; Wm. Gray, The Grove, Lee, Kent; and Henry Gartside,
Wharmton Towers, Greenfield, Saddleworth; and the Secretary, Mr. W.
Roberts, 9 A, Bridge Street, Westminster.

{91} The little train so smoothly glides
Along our lovely valley,
And