From the 1879 novel The Honourable Ella, A Tale of Foxshire, page 96, Book III, by William Ulick O’Connor Cuffe, 4th Earl of Desart.

As far as I know there never was a Candahar-Cabul Tramway Company (Limited)…

Of course Lord Lorton found no difficulty
in suiting himself with dinner companions
at the Club, and, as it happened, the men
near whom he sat were all of that new-
class which has lately sprung up in Lon-
don ; the mixture of man of fashion with
man of business — half Belgrave Square,
half Stock Exchange — one pocket full of
invitations to balls, the other stuffed with
coupons and bills at three months ; swells
in the City ; City men in the West End ;
laughed at in Capel Court because of their
fine-gentlemanism, and in Hyde Park be-
cause of their money-grubbing ; the mules
of social life, of no particular breed, but
useful ; not quite so good-looking as horses,
and not quite so ugly as asses. Dining
with Alderman Grundy, they talk of the
Duchess of Pantulicon’s last little party.
Dining with Her Grace, they awe her by
their intimate knowledge of the remote
future of the Candahar-Cabul Tramway
Company (Limited). A grand invention
of our “idle day,” but liable to wear out.
And there are some so dense as not to
regret this want of stability !