Famous British Trains.

Passenger carriages employed by the Home railways comprise some exceptionally comfortable stock, and additions are constantly being made to keep this stock up-to-date. By the L. and N.E. line, for example, new train sets recently have been introduced in the important express services between the northern industrial centres of Leeds and the Scottish cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. The most important daily train in this service is the 8.55 a.m. Leeds to Glasgow, which arrives at Glasgow (264 miles distant) at 3.6 p.m., returning from Glasgow at 4.0 p.m., and reaching Leeds at 10.28 p.m., thus completing a daily round trip of 528 miles. Breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner are served en route. For this service an entirely new train set consists of eight cars, each 61ft. 6in. long, with a total weight of 274 tons. The vehicles, built in the railway shops at Doncaster, comprise a brake first, a semi-open first, a restaurant car third, an open car, two corridor thirds, a brake third, and a brake composite (first and page 24 third). Seats are provided in all for 66 first and 250 third-class passengers.

This train, like the “Flying Scotsman” of the same line, is exceedingly popular with business men. The “Flying Scotsman” weighs about 400 tons, and 360 passengers are carried. Both these trains have automatic couplings and Pullman vestibules, and in each case a further safety factor is provided in the complete elimination of gas, all the vehicles being electrically lighted and the whole of the cooking carried out by electricity. The L. and N.E. line, it may be noted, is a world pioneer in the provision of electric cooking for express trains, it actually having set our go-ahead American cousins a lead in this matter.