The Great Northern Railway is on the side of Cupid, for one of its trains provides courting facilities, the Nottingham correspondent the "Daily News" recently report-
'A lovers' train at a farthing a mile sounds e a boon. The anglers' express to Pulborough, the bathers' train to Dawlish, Royal trains to Scotland, and workmen's train to Tlford—I have travelled by them all. But the lovers' train from Nottingham to Basford is the cheapest. railway ride in Great Britain. a "The Cupid Express," to give it one of its nicknames, is a railway anomaly. There are two ways of going by rail to Basford—the short, direct way, which is 2} miles, and the long, semi-circular route, vid Gedling, which is ten miles. The single fare, 21d., is the same for both routes, but the lovers' choice is naturally the long way.
I approached the train this evening the look in the guard's eye as he saw me trying to find an empty compartment said: Well, where's the lady?" The train began by going through a long tunnel, without lights, and then another, also without. lights.
The curious thing about the "Cupid Express' is that it is
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