Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-11-18
ENGLISH RAILWAYS.
THEY ARE GLOW TO ADOPT IMPROVE
MENTs IN THE SERVICE.

are obvious from these great piles o.
passengers' baggage. One ia that thert
is no check system ON the railways. ant
the other that If 1t cost as much to hirs
n cab in Liverpool or Manchester ns ir
New York there would soon be dimi
mutton in the number Of packages, if not
In the weight Of the baggage, which
English families take with them or
their holiday travels Few big Saratogl
trunks are to be seen ON the platform al
Crewe Here and there may be seen q
trunk which it takes two men to lift,
Vbut the address ON 1t will almost Ger.
tainly show it to belong to an American
visitor. English people will not take
the trouble to pack all their belongings
into one or two largo sized trunks.
Neither is there any need why they
should so long as the railway companies
will accept without demur 12 OK 10
small trunks, hampers. bundles and
other miscellaneous packages Rs tie
| baggage entitled to go with one set of
railway tickets. and so long as an Eng
lish cab driver will pile all tLis stuff
on the top or box seat of his cab and
! carry it AID the family attached to it
from their home to the railway station
for half q crown.
Every low and again an Englishnan
who has been in America writes TO The
Times concerning the advantages Of the
check system as 1t is worked On the
American railways, but all these letters
go unheeded. English railway managers
have q dread of innovations, especially
If the innovation comes from America,
and the English people, who are eccus-
toned to tho scramble for baggage ut
the railway stations, are quite satisfied,
with tho existing system, or rather lack
of system. On the whole, they save a
little money by it. English railway
companies allow third class passenger
90 pounds CT personal baggage. and a
first class passenger double that amount.
Any excess is supposed to he paid for,
but u tip of tkreepence to Il porter will
usually see the whole travelling impedi-
ments CT ii family carried straight frcm
the cab to tho train and insure that 10
questions rs to weight are asked L. is
usually the iGck OF Il tip o. hostile
hint from cabmen who is not satisfied
with his fare that leads to u call at the
weighing machine on the way frCm the
cab to the baggage van. Under tho ex-
isting system English people have Hl-
ways to watch over their own baggage
at every change, and sometimes to
scramble and struggle for it ct the end
of the journey, ard 10 tumblc over other
peoples baggage as they fight their way
into crowded train. But then. as
hnx ], r..i-
the passenger can nearly always get the
best Of the railway company in the mat
ter Of excess of baggage. and nobody
gives any heed to tho frequent suggcs-
tions that the American system of checks
should be adopted.
In one or two directions the Englis.
companies arc now following the exam
pie Of the American railway companies.
After years of urging frCm the board Of
trade and the government department.
which hEs the oversight Of railways
several of the lines are gradually intro
drcine long cars for long distance travel
They have not boldly adopted the Amef-
ican car. The pattern Of car low being
brought into use is compromise be-
tween the American car and the Eng
Esh compartments carriage. The COM
partment is retained, but each compart-
ment is connected with u corridor which
runs not down the middle, hut along
one side of the car. This has given tho
name CT corridor train to the train made
up CT carriages bui t after this fashion.
On some Of the trains all the car
riages are connected with vestibules
like thosc On American railways. On
other trains there are two or three cor
ridor cars, while the rest of tho carriages
are Of the old fashioned style. 1t is
characteristic Of the English people that
there is seldom any scramble fer places
in tho new cars. People seem to like
the old compartments better, fact
upon which the railway companies do
not fail to lay stress when, after some
outrage in train, the companies are
pressed by the board OF trade to make
the use Of corridor cara more general.
Tho corridor trains are principally in
use between London and Scotland. On
scores Of tho lorg distance runs il Eng
land all the carriages are still of the
old fashioned kind.
Another fact concerning the corridor
trains is typical of the English char
acter. Newstoys are not carried ON
them. The English railway newsboy is
still kept solely to the platforms at the
railway stations. Ard he is likely to be
kept there, for English people would
vote it nuisance too great to be borne
TO be pcstered to buy books and confec-
tionery they do not want. The newsboy
who travels with the train has few
friends among Englishmen who have
been in America. People grumble at
the prices charged by the monopolists
who control all the railway news and
bookstalls i'll this country. But it is
often put to the credit Of the monopo-
lists that their newsboys are always at
hand, bot never make themselves a
nuisance, Eor worry passengers who do
not want the books they are vending.
One Of the newest innovations from
America in the English railway service
concerns mileage books. These are now
in use on the Northeastern railway.
They are being tried in n tentative
fashion, and so far are issued only to
first class travellers. The reductions in
fare are quite considerable, and the con-
ditions prescribed by the company are
easy. If the experiment works satisfac-
torily, it will soon be extended to third
class passengers on the Northeastern,
and, once well established on one large
trunk line, the system will soon become
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