09-29-2012, 07:26 AM
ezdays Wrote:I love those coaches, I'm assuming that the wood seats are for the common folk, plush for those that can afford it.
Absolutely :-)
Another interesting thing - the conductor would walk on the board outside the train to knock on the windows in the doors to collect tickets - an obvious inheritance from British trains. Sometimes a bit of a challenge in poor weather and for late trains on Saturdays, when the people inside might be rather drunk and disorderly - you don't want some fool to give you a shove as you walk past his compartment, sending you careening into the ditch next to the railroad line.
Smile,
Stein