Eight Million Meals Per Annum.

Home railway revenues are considerably swelled through the subsidiary activities of the four groups. Train and page 24 hotel catering forms an especially profitable side-line, and it has been calculated that in the dining-cars and hotels of the group lines there are served, annually, approximately 8,000,000 meals. The Home railways were probably the first in the world to operate their own hotels for the accommodation of travellers. Little by little, the hotels departments have been extended, and today in almost every big city and most of the popular holiday centres tese convenient railway guest-houses are situated. The L. M. & S. Railway is actually the largest hotel owner in the world. Among the more famous guest-houses on this system are those at Stratford-on-Avon; Lime Street, Liver-pool; and Gleneagles, in the Scottish Highlands. The Great Western operates famous hotels in many districts, one of the largest and best-known being the Manor Hotel, at Moretonhampstead, on the fringe of romantic Dartmoor. This house appeals especially to sportsmen, and is run more or less on country club lines.