The first railway in London was the London and Greenwich the first section of which opened on 14th December 1836. (See Bar359, Jim Crow's Description of the New Greenwich Railroad)
In 1836, Charles Green left Vauxhall Gardens, London in a balloon named The Royal Vauxhall. He descended the next day, at at Weilburg in Nassau, (in what is now Germany) having travelled altogether about 500 miles in eighteen hours - a record that stood until 1907. [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]. Germany did not exist as a nation at that time hence the song's reference to Holland. The balloon was renamed The Great Nassau again ascended from Vauxhall Gardens on 24 July 1837,
"To crowd the coach, all sort approach, to Windsor off they run" Colonel Macerone, in 1823 ran a steam-carriage of his own design from London to Windsor and back, with 11 passengers, a distance of 23.5 miles (37.8km) in 2 hours.
[Ref Thurston, Robert H. A History of the Growth of the Steam Engine pp138-139]
The oldest London edition of Poor Richard's Almanac held by the British Library (printed by Saunders) is the almanac for 1836. The last three verses make references to proverbs in the almanac