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they could see their luggage aftually put into the boot, 

 but such was the haughty arrogance of the railway 

 officials that on a railway journey travellers and their 

 luggage were separated in the most heartless manner. 

 "Let a person have an opportunity of keeping his 

 property in view," said the writer in all seriousness, and 

 was really of the opinion that, until such a contingency 

 was provided for, railways could never hope to succeed. 



The opening of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway 

 in 1838 occasioned many doubts as to the success of the 

 new venture, for, still struggling with the precedent 

 of the coaches, a procession of trains was arranged to 

 celebrate the occasion. All the engines belonging to the 

 company were called into use, and open trucks provided 

 with seats coupled to them for the accommodation 

 of the intrepid company who were prepared to risk 

 their lives on such an auspicious occasion. The start 

 was timed for eleven, but it was long past that hour 

 before a move was made, and eventually the procession 

 of trains accomplished their journey of sixty miles 

 in three hours and twenty minutes. 



Colonel Peter Hawley, author of the sporting classic. 

 Instructions to Toung Sportsmen, has left an account of his 

 first railway journey, when, presumably because he 

 always travelled on the outside of a coach, he determined 

 to go on the top of a railway carriage, so that it is little 

 wonder that he found the experience rather terrifying. 



"I was by my own choice, allowed to leave my seat and 

 to be perched on the summit of the mail carriage, where 



