The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-16
SPECIAL TRAINS
CHEAP IN ENGLAND
Can Be Had for 20 to 40
Regular Fares
THEY ARE FREQUENTLY RUN
Pierpont Morgan Engaged Special to
Take Him From Manchester to
London-Brdegro Some
times Hires One.
THEY ARE FREQUENTLY RUN
From London Tit Bits.

From London Tit Bits.
Special trains are run much more FIRE :
quently than the average railway traveller
imaglnes, said a railway official to the
| writer the other day If by any chance
, you are in a great hurry you may, if you
can pay for it, get special train at the
price of from twenty to forty ordinary
| fares to your destination. An ordinary
| special generally consists of four car
riages and a locomotive, but people who
have so much money that they do not
| know what to do with It will often order
| a special to have dining and sleeping
car with a cook, attendants, food and
Wines For this comfort and style" they
must pay anything from $50 above tho
price charged for an ordinary special.
| When Mr.. Pierpont Morgan was over
, here a year or two ago he found 1t nee
| essary to engage special to take him
! from Manchester to London at snort no
| tice. The special. with a dining and par
! lor car, was put on the lines in a little
over half an hour from the time 1t was
| ordered, and Travelled at an average speed
! of sixty miles an hour. Mr.. Morgan's lit
| tie trip cost him altogether Els, e65 of
which was charged by the railway COM
| pany for the train, the remaining 91O
| being a present he handed to the engine
driver at the end of the journey.
OF course, everybody is not in the posi-
| ton to pay e65 for a special, A special
from London to Manchester, or vice versa,
is always expensive, but it can be pro-
| cured for a sum much less than what Mr..
Pierpont Morgan had to pay.
While some railway companies charge
five ShillinQS a mile for SDppfalS In addi-
ton to the frst-class fare, others charge
seven shillings six pence a mile for a sim
gle journey and ten shillngs six pence a
mile return. The minimum charge for a
special on the Midland and Great North
ern is e3, while the minimum charge for
a special train on the London and South
western is Go.
Theatrical companies on tour nearly al
ways travel by special trains, finding
them not only quicker, but cheaper, than
ordinaries that cater for the general pub
lie. Racing men and Jockeys often hire
specials ''Morny" Cannon, after riding
at Manchester on one OCCASION chartered
special train to catch the channel boat
as he had TO ride in the Grand Prlx ar
Paris on the following day. The special,
in order to reach It's destination in time
to catch the boat. had travel at a speed
of seventy miles an hour right through
SpCtidlS are uOl run very often.
The late Queen victoria's funeral train,
which met the royal yacht at Portsmouth,
cost $50, while the one conveying the cof-
fin bearing the remains of Mr.. Gladstone
to their last resting place cost e10 less
1t is interesting to know that when Mr..
Herbert Gladstone NJ. P. was called
suddenly to the deathbed of his famous
father he found it necessary to have a
special. When he arrived at Euston he
discovered that the Chester express had
gone out of the station and could not of
course, be brought back The London
and Northwestern company prepared a
special at his request.
Curiously enough. a not infrequent rea-
son for taking special is that a bride
groom is in danger of arriving late at the
church at which he is to be married,
while on several occasions runaway
couples have chartered specials in order