Think your commute is a nightmare?
Posted: 24 Oct 2015, 07:24Hell on wheels: Think your commute is a nightmare? It's luxury compared to Britain's first train journeys - when passengers froze to death and got set alight by cinders.... And as for the loos, don't even ask!
Hazards of Victorian trains revealed in new book, 'The Railways: Nation, Network And People'
Simon Bradley tells of how commuters clothes were set on fire in open-top carriages
There were strict class divides and some companies would dump soot in third class carriages
But the well-off could buy an 'Aristocrat' basket which came with choice of a pint of claret or half a pint of sherry
By Simon Bradley For The Daily Mail
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z3pT4Vwa67
Hazards of Victorian trains revealed in new book, 'The Railways: Nation, Network And People'
Simon Bradley tells of how commuters clothes were set on fire in open-top carriages
There were strict class divides and some companies would dump soot in third class carriages
But the well-off could buy an 'Aristocrat' basket which came with choice of a pint of claret or half a pint of sherry
By Simon Bradley For The Daily Mail
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z3pT4Vwa67