“Come to Scotland” is the call which is this summer being broadcasted throughout the length and breadth of the Homeland by the two big railway systems that connect England with her northern neighbour. A great deal of time and money is being spent by the Home railways to attract passengers to holiday resorts scattered throughout England, but it is upon travel to Scotland that this season's publicity campaigns are primarily directed.

The London, Midland and Scottish and London and North Eastern Railways both emphatically deny that there is to be witnessed this season anything approaching the historic “Railway Race” to Scotland of years gone by. It is a fact that the journey time of the London-Edinburgh run by both the East and West Coast routes remains unaltered, but the two competing lines are vying one with the other in the provision of new amenities calculated to attract the traveller, to an extent never before contemplated. A through non-stop run of 392 1/2 miles, performed daily by the “Flying Scotsman” in each direction between London and Edinburgh is certainly an accomplishment calculated to draw business. It is also an achievement of which the L. and N.E.R. may well be proud, as being the first occasion in railway history that locomotive crews have been changed en route while travelling at speed. No other railway in the world has ever attempted so lengthy a daily non-stop passenger train schedule as this, and the utilisation of the new corridor tender, which was described in my last letter, is absolutely unique in railway annals.