. The ways of our railways . vepower for the haulage of vehicles belonging to theircustomers. In the goods traffic department thispolicy still partially prevails, there being about halfa million traders wagons running on the lines. Inthe passenger department, privately owned carriagesare practically extinct, even the Royal saloons beingthe property of the companies. The new Royaltrain recently built by the London and North-WesternRailway Company at its carriage works at Wolvertonrepresents the highest perfection yet attained in therailway carriage builders art. It consists of theKings car, the
. The ways of our railways . vepower for the haulage of vehicles belonging to theircustomers. In the goods traffic department thispolicy still partially prevails, there being about halfa million traders wagons running on the lines. Inthe passenger department, privately owned carriagesare practically extinct, even the Royal saloons beingthe property of the companies. The new Royaltrain recently built by the London and North-WesternRailway Company at its carriage works at Wolvertonrepresents the highest perfection yet attained in therailway carriage builders art. It consists of theKings car, the Queens car, and six others for theaccommodation of their suites. The two cars firstnamed are, of course, specially reserved for theirMajesties use, and are not infrequently lent to otherrailway companies for Royal journeys; but thecars built for the Royal suites can, at a moderatecharge, be secured by ordinary travellers on givingsufficient notice. It may possibly surprise somereaders to learn that when His Majesty the King. THE PASSENGER DEPARTMENT. 183 and the members of the Royal Family travel by rail,they pay for their journeys like other folk. Shortly after the Midland Railway Companyabolished second-class carriages on its line, it intro-duced into this country the American Pullman car, a number of which are still running on theBrighton, South-Western, and other lines, on hirefrom the Pullman Car Company. The companiesrespectively forming the three main routes betweenLondon and Scotland have a number of jointly ownedpassenger coaches. With a few exceptions such asthese, the passenger rolling-stock of each of ourrailway companies is exclusively its own property,save, of course, when a large company undertakesto work the traffic of a smaller line. The runningof through coaches from one line to another isalso quite common, the earnings of these being dis-tributed through the Railway Clearing House, asalready explained. Most of our larger railway companies build andrepair the
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