INSTRUCTIONS TO
RAILWAY TRAVELLERS
APPLICABLE
APPLICABLE
To nearly all the Railways
in Great Britain.
Proceed at once to the booking-office and procure a
ticket for the class carriage you intend to travel by, and if near the time of
starting, enter the departure shed.
Have your name legibly written
on your luggage, and see it stowed away, and then take your seat in a carriage,
carrying with you carpet bags or other light luggage, and wait till the
starting bell rings.
Take care of your ticket to
deliver at your journey's end, or to the attendant at starting, as the case may
be.
The weight generally allowed
to each passenger for luggage is about 100 lbs. and a charge is made for
excess.
No smoking is allowed at the
stations, nor in any of the carriages.
No dogs allowed to be taken
inside the carriages, but they are conveyed in a proper vehicle at a small
charge for each.
Do not leave your seat at any
station, except the one at which refreshment is allowed, nor attempt to open
the carriage doors yourself.
Females are in attendance at
each terminus, and at the central refreshment station, to wait upon ladies and
children.
Carriages and horses should be
at the stations at least a quarter of an hour before the time of starting.
Post horses can always be obtained
at each terminus and most of the stations.
Omnibuses, flys, coaches and
cabs are always waiting the arrival of the trains at each terminus.
Children under ten years of
age half-price, infants in arms, unable to walk, free of charge.
Every train is provided with
guards and a conductor, who is responsible for the order and regularity of the
journey.
Every guard, porter or
policeman employed by the company has a distinguishing number on the collar of
his coat.
The companies' servants are
strictly enjoined, on pain of dismissal, to observe the utmost civility and
attention towards all the passengers, nor are they to receive any fee or
gratuity.
From: Henry Tuck, Every Traveller's Guide to the Railways of
England, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium, France, and Germany, 1843
