The Railways of Scotland: Their Present Position : With a Glance At Their Past And a Forecast of Their Future
The Railways of Scotland: Their Present Position : With a Glance At Their Past And a Forecast of Their Future
William Mitchell Acworth
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This train therefore might easily be at Perth, only 48 miles further, by 5 . 30. Last year, vid Larbert, it was seventy minutes later. The West Coast relief train which comes first was only due in at 6.35. But we are promised that in the future, whatever the East Coast does, that the West Coast will do also. So next summer, at least during the fortnight while these relief trains run, we may take it for granted that their passengers will be hurrying northward by 5.45, and that they will Digitize...d by Google Breakfasting at Inverness. 59 atone for the sin of rushing up the Pass of Killie- crankie in their sleeping-berths — for the sleeping- cars will evidently have to go beyond Perth in future — by appearing in Inverness in good time for a ten-o'clock breakfast. This is simple enough for the " grouse " fortnight ; but what will happen during the rest of the year is by no means so self- evident. The Highland mail for eight months of the year probably takes half as many passengers per diem as in August it takes carriages, and would not be run as an express at all except for the very heavy Post Office subsidy.
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