New-York tribune., 1900-08-25
FoRB1GY RAILWAY CoHTEE1EECBs.

Several improvements have recently been
made in the railway service between Edin-
burgh and London A particular express
known as the Flying Scotsman, has hitherto
stopped twenty minutes at York for luncheon;
but by the addition Of dining car to the train
this delay will In the future be avoided. In
order to allow the passengers to reach and
leave the railway restaurant while the train is
In motion the cars have corridors running
lengthwise, with doors and platforms at the
ends. Vesttbules between the cars render the
passage from one TO another more agreeable
and safer than otherwise would be possible
Better lavatories have been provided To les
sen the vibration felt by the passengers, rubber
cushions have been interposed between the
trucks and car bodies; and an automatic
coupler has been employed not only to reduce
the chances Of injury to trainhands, but also to
minimize the shock when coaches come to
gether. Finally, the locomotives are equipped
with scoops to take water from a trough be-
tween the rails while under headway
The dining car is not altogether a novelty in
England Most Of the other improvements here
enumerated have also been introduced there
experimentally. But the emphasis laid BY the
press on the convenience and luxury afforded
by the new train shows how much less familiar
the Englishman is with them than are Amert-
StAAAS. A4O1SONSTJ IIS SCOTSMAN. on Which
they are to be tried for the first time viii rep
resent the latest ideas in construction and ser
vice in many details. simultaneously with the
departure Of the express from London another
VIII leave Edinburgh. Both trains are run in
two sections, and for what really amounts to
four complete trains entirely new rolling stock
has been built
But II the United Kingdom is not as well off
In these respects as America, at least she is as
nearly up to date as the Continent Of Europe
The specials that run from Havre and Cher
bourg 30 Paris 10 accommodate incoming steam
ship passengers usually have a dining car
attached; but it is possible even for invalids in
stormy weather to reach IT from other carriages
only by aIighting at some station and walking
along the ground. The only entrances to the
carriages are on the side Even If the cars are
arranged with corridors the latter are designed
merely 10 afford access 20 the lavatory But
cars without any lavatory are not at all un-
common In Europe. In point Of speed and
safety The leading American railways can
hardly make better showing than the best
foreign roads. But the provision for the travel
leTs convenience is conspicuously superior on
this side OF the Atlantic to that on the other
This difference is explainable in some meas
ure perhaps by the wonderful mechanical In
genuity Of the Yankee inventor Possibly II IS
also due 70 a limited extent to differences OF
temperament The typical American business
man crowds a great deal Of work into a short
time and is always in hurry The foreigner
takes things more deliberately But there is
stin another factor involved in the question.
and II remained for an American to discover
and develop IT, Mr.. Pullman laid down the
principle thirty yesns-or more ago that elegance