Patent First-Class Costume for the Collision Season Finish:Rolled With spectators watching from roof

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

Street scene in Watling Street

Execution of protestants at Smithfield

who stands by the door crying and holding a wedding ring

perhaps a metaphor for sex

Patent First-Class Costume for the Collision Season Finish:Rolled With spectators watching from roof'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.