The Railway Regulation Act 1844 required train companies to provide inexpensive and basic rail transport for less affluent passengers - which became known as 'Parliamentary Trains'. This image from 1859 - a few years before the song was written - certainly suggests that rail carriages were 'cosy'.
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_train (accessed 14Sep20)
Railway station food and especially sandwiches are the subject of many jokes see bar 343~Railway Station Sandwich.
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The decision to build the monument in Newcastle was made 10 years after Stephenson's death, at a meeting of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in August 1858, presided over by his son, Robert Stephenson and William Armstrong. The monument was unveiled in a ceremony on the 2nd of October 1862. Below the main bronze statue of George Stephenson on the corners of the sandstone plinth are 4 further statues of Stephenson, representing the areas of his achievements: as a miner, a locomotive engineer, a blacksmith and bridge builder. Reference: |
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Harwich was almost certainly chosen because it rhymes with carriage
