Only an emergency involving thousands upon thousands of human lives could have stilled the honest differences of opinion which must have existed in the minds of the gov-Jernment officers involved and whose {co-operation was essential. Probably, also, nothing but an emergency of volume, many times the size much difference in the general setup of the time-tables. Trains, of course, were few and far between 90 years ago, and though their early Victorian passengers probably thought they were flying through the air in the most dashing way, the pace would be called funereal now. Londoners off to Brighton for a week. fend''s dissipation had to catch the 830 am. from London Bridge oF wait till 1080, Dundreary wishers would have waggled and. bonneted fen in amazement atthe of an electrified line and a fifteen-minutes service. Once in the train, the Afty miles to Brighton were covered in two and a dalt hours—a atting speed of twenty miles an 19th Century Railway Manners
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