Date: 1892
It came at last— gliding easily, beautifully alongside, despite its tremendous length.  The giant Great Western engine snorted, thumped, and finally stood at ease beside the platform, while the train discharged its passengers, and the luggage van belched forth parcels and luggage in mountainous heaps.  A voung man, arriving in belated haste, came hurrying up the platform, scanning the faces of the passengers eagerly, as he threaded his way in and out among the groups who had alighted.