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[Note 105.7] "Full speed from here to Kilrush quay":- "Here" is presumably Limerick.
[Note 105.8] "And calls at Tarbert station":- Historic railway maps give no indication that a Tarbert Station ever existed. However; there is a ferry across the Shannon from Tarbert to Killmer which would have been a likely point of call for the Elwy.
[Note 119.1] The "Southern Railway" referred to may be either the London and South Western or the South Devon Railway Companies both of which were interested in the westward extension of the railway network.
[Note 119.0] The sceptical attitude to the likely profitability of the line suggests that the crash in railway share prices that began in 1846 was foreseen by the balladeer. Indeed the construction of the line to Falmouth was dogged by lack of funding and the line was not completed until 1863
[Note 119.2] The price of half-a-crown a share is well below the stock market index for railway shares which stood at about £1 in 1844. (http://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2003/simon.html).