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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 6, Issue 6 (December 1, 1931)

Modern Luggage-handling Systems

Modern Luggage-handling Systems.

During the past few years many improvements have been made in the methods employed by the Home railways for handling passengers' luggage. One of the most elaborate luggage-handling systems now in operation is that of the Southern Railway, in connection with the movement of passengers' luggage to and from the Continent.

Modern Handling Of Passengers' Luggage Reduces Worry. The new luggage registration hall at Victoria Station, London.

Modern Handling Of Passengers' Luggage Reduces Worry.
The new luggage registration hall at Victoria Station, London.

Registered luggage to and from the Continent is handled in a special luggage office at Victoria Station, London. Here some 350,000 pieces of luggage are dealt with annually. A passenger for the Continent arriving at Victoria hands his luggage to an outside porter, who loads the trunks on to a barrow and transports them to the luggage hall. On a patent weighing machine in the centre of the hall the luggage is weighed, and a weight ticket handed to the owner. On one side of the hall is a row of ten windows, at any of which the passenger may register his luggage. Here all the excess and similar charges are paid through to destination, be it Paris or Constantinople, and the passenger is handed the top copy of the luggage ticket which is made out in triplicate, with which to claim the luggage at the journey's end. The trunks are labelled and numbered to correspond with the number shown on the ticket, and the passenger sees no more of his trunks until arrival at destination. The second copy of the ticket accompanies the luggage on the journey, in care of the guard, and the third copy is retained at Victoria for audit purposes. The arrangement is absolutely fool-proof, no mistakes can be made, and the passenger is relieved of all worry concerning his belongings from beginning to end of the journey.