Abstract
Seldom has a railway excited such blazes of sulphurous wrath by reason of its rolling stock as the South Eastern. Frenetic abuse and unstinted bad language have been hurled at everyone connected with the line on account of the 3rd class carriages; but never has the proverb of ‘Give a dog a bad name and hang him’ found a better exemplification. It would be highly interesting to listen to the meditations of the medival relic when the American car train or the ‘Folkestone Vestibuled Limited’ flashes by. The year 1872 was distinguished by the first real concessions being made to the needs of third-class travellers. An entirely new variety of vehicle was designed, of a size more closely approximating to modern requirements, and giving an amount of light and roominess hitherto undreamt of.
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