The story of the Pullman car . n railways were put in weekly service be-tween Brindisi and Bologna, in connection with thesteamers of the Peninsula and Oriental Bologna the service was taken up by the BelgianSociete Anonyme des Wagons Lits — an inter-esting recognition by a foreign government of thesuperiority of the American railway carriages. In 1888 The Pullman Limited Express beganregular service on the London, Brighton, & SouthCoast Line, between Victoria Station and cars of the American pattern had been run-ning on this line for five or six years, but in thistr
The story of the Pullman car . n railways were put in weekly service be-tween Brindisi and Bologna, in connection with thesteamers of the Peninsula and Oriental Bologna the service was taken up by the BelgianSociete Anonyme des Wagons Lits — an inter-esting recognition by a foreign government of thesuperiority of the American railway carriages. In 1888 The Pullman Limited Express beganregular service on the London, Brighton, & SouthCoast Line, between Victoria Station and cars of the American pattern had been run-ning on this line for five or six years, but in thistrain for the first time the English public was offereda solid Pullman equipment. Four cars comprisedthe train—a parlor car, a drawing room car withladies boudoir and dining room, a restaurant car,and a smoking car, while a compartment at each endof the train next to the luggage compartment wasprovided for servants. On this train electric lightingwas first employed by the Pullman Company for f68] Digitized by Microsoft®. Ul H Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® THE PULLMAN CAR IN EUROPE illuminating railroad cars — a particular feature thatreceived wide advertisement. The London, Brighton, & South Coast Railwayopened the New Year of 1889 with the first vesti-bule train that had ever greeted the eyes of for-eign travelers. Three Pullman cars, Princess,Prince, and Albert Victor, were regularly at-tached to a train of three first-class cars. The Pull-man cars were built at the Pullman plant at Detroit,Michigan, and were shipped in sections to this innovation Yankee genius again demon-strated its leadership, and the travelers of a distantnation profited by the genius and energy of an Amer-ican inventor. The Pullman Company, Limited, of England, ex-isted as a property of the American company untilthe year 1906, when, due to the enormous develop-ment of the system in the United States, it wasdeemed wise for economic reasons to separate thetwo companies.
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