The Locomotive In A Midsummer Tempest

See Two Train Journeys.

I knew that I was missing something in A Midsummer Tempest but, as I indicated, it is not the same kind of train journey. Eight mounted Roundheads with hounds pursue two mounted Cavaliers, Rupert and Will. When the pursuers halloo and their hounds yelp:

"A hoot responded. Around a shoulder of the ridge, some two miles north but headed south, came a train."
-Poul Anderson, A Midsummer Tempest (London, 1975), ix, p. 68.

"The locomotive puffed, boomed, spouted smoke and sparks, a black monstrosity in that serene landscape; [Rupert] had rarely seem a sight more beautiful. After it, clacked its tender and half a dozen open, empty cars. It must be bound for a colliery that the mills be kept fed." (ibid.)

OK. Good description of a steam train although obviously not a passenger train. Rupert, urging his horse to gallop beside, endures heat, vapor and fumes, then swings himself onto the engine platform, drives the driver and stoker onto their fuel tender and applies the brakes. Will joins Rupert, the driver and stoker jump off and their places are taken by the two Cavaliers who leave their pursuers standing. Their journey continues for several pages which I will have to reread.