THE PASSING OF THE "DANDY 11 



HpHERE was nothing in Bradshaw, nor anything 

 A on the railway ticket to Port Carlisle, to suggest 

 peculiar means of locomotion; we noted that we had 

 to change at Drumburgh, that was all. But when we 

 alighted at that busy junction, there was the dandy, with 

 its locomotive skewed across the metals, gazing with 

 equine contemplation at its rival on the Silloth line. 

 The dandy is a survival a railway carriage drawn by a 

 horse, but distinctly a railway carriage and not a tram. 

 In general shape, colour, and wheels, as also in its windows, 

 door, ventilator, and even door handle, it is a railway 

 carriage, and its inscription " Port Carlisle. N.B.R. 

 No. i." suggests its antiquity; was it the first coach 

 built by the North British ? 



But there is something more than ordinary railway 

 rolling-stock about the dandy, for at either end is a wide 

 driving seat with a neatly curved splash-board, whilst 

 along the sides the ordinary double step is transformed 

 into a row of seats; above all is the power, the patient 

 horse, ready to pull this strange conveyance along the 

 two and a half miles of normal gauge line to Port Carlisle. 

 The dandy was built for a horse, not the horse adapted 

 to the dandy. 



There were four passengers for the terminus, and one for 

 the porterless station of Glasson, where " the Trains 

 [with a capital T] call when required to take up and set 

 down Passengers," as we read in Bradshaw. What con- 

 stitutes a Train, and why the capital ? The dictionary 

 states: "A continuous line or series of carriages on a 



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