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Cry sews."

The centenary of the £rst publie tait- way on which a steam locomotive was employed is to be celebrated next year, A hundred years is not a long time in the life of as industry, bit while, the pioneers of so stupendas a change in the habits of the people, the Stepher sons, Brunel, Fedee, and their coupers have hnd fall justice done to them, little hay been said about the rank and file, the men who stood on the footplates of the carly engines or laid the rails or carrimi the luggage of the passengers. The glas mour of romance had sheď a halo roïnd the heads of the coachraap and ganri of the stage couch, though the details of their lives must have been prosaic in the extreme, for they were not always bowling, along well-made roads through trim serdery in summer weather. Rain, snow, fogs, floods, and mud made up Lost of their partion, varied by an ocea sional spill.

EARLY LIKES AND DISLIKES Charles Dickens revelled in the jolly te of the road and the posting in, and the sayings of Mr. Weller, arnior, are household words to-day. But ports dis liked intensely the early "railways, and even the son of the invelitor of the steam jeuzine permitted himself to speak of the confounded gash one of them made arross the landscape. The driver and sinker of the locomotive were not quite so grimy and ally as they are necessarily to-day, for coke was burot, and not coal, but no one wrote sonnets to the or

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There are signs, however, that-Dickena would have done for the railway what he had done for the road had he been spared. Mugby Junction, published as the Christmas number of All the Year Round in 1868, contains some masterly sketches of railway life. "Th Doy at Mugby," from his own per gives a most amusing account of the complicated horrors of the refreshment room of the sixties-the bad sherry. sawdusty sandwiches, gristly ples, and the supercilious manners of the young. Ladies with their handelingi häir. Bandaline has since followed the crino- lize into oblivion.

THE ORIGINAL TYPES. The first locomotive mieu were mechanics from the constructing shops, but the bulk of the other grades came directly off the land. The pictures" of the typical porter of the period by John Leech make that quite plain. His muscular frame clad in a short jacket and velveteen, cordu. roy trousers, and his whiskered, ruddy face, were not the product" of "town" life" The fondness of village dwellers for Biblical names was proverbial, and the old railway pay rolls were plentifully sprinkled with sach-Lot, Noah, Levi, Elijab, and the like. There was the case of a railway man who asked for his male infant to a baptised as "Venus." To the shocked expostulations of the curate he answered meekly that his father bore that name. Inquiries elicit

d that the patriarch in question was named Silvanus, which had been shorter- ed by attrition among his mates so far back that the original name had been almost forgotten.

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traders bad united to form private ser- vices of their own in the absence of a

It was said that" capable public force. many of these men were confederates of the thieves and aided them so long as their own employers were not robbed. It was feared that the railway police would become as corrupt as these private watchmen. but ey soor justified their appointment.

The railway service from the forties award enjoyed a unique prestige in the rural districts, which accounted for the eager rush to go on the line." There Besides acting as watchmen these men had been a profound peace for "many "were the ancestors of the modern signal- years, and the army and navy were-cut men. Th moved the switchpoints and down to very small dimensiola. Einig-Buthorized the departure of a train' pro- ration had not started on the grand vided the previous train had got a clear scale, and there were no rival indus- start of a prescribed number of minutes! tries to compete with the railway in the The madere signalman is still familiarly adventurous country-bred youth. He saw known to his nasogintes as the "Bobby" the line being built that was to take in view of this descent: The man who his kindred beyond their immediate lays the rails was, and is, called a plate- environment for the first time in their layer: This term dates from the time. lives, and his imagination was kindled of the old colliery tramroads when fat Previously his festivities had been limit plates of iron, turned up at the sides, ed to the Club Feast at Whitsuntide and were laid on the ground for the wagona the Harvest Home supper.

Even in of coal to run along. lows the tradesman seldom left his, shop except for an occasional jaunt with his family and friends in a hired furniture van to a picnic in the country.

GALLANT CAPTAINS.

The original idea of the railway, ad- ministration wax to use retired Pavai and military officers us supervisors and. Ftationinasters to instil a rigid discip line into the staff. The employment of these veterans was not altogether a ccess, though one naval officer left his mark on the rule book of his railway, for he referred in it to the station

astern."

There was another distant connection with naval affairs in the Black Country, Before the opening of the Valley line there was a passenger service of flyboats on the canni be tween Birminghun. and Wolverhampton. As with some of Mr. W. W. Jacob's barges the crow consisted of two men, the captain and the mate. On the flybont service one led the horses and the other steered. When the line was opered ai least two of these redundant captains. were made station masters."

A large portion of the routine and technical terms of the carly service wis taken from the important carrying houses and stage-coach businesses which were suppinated.' Baxendale, the manag- ing director of Pickford & Co., drew up most of the forms and books that were employed The guard was often trans- ed without change of title from the to the rail, and, the booking-office

was another survival from the old days. Until the pace became too fast the clerk booked the names and destinations of the passengers "on a waybill which he handed to the guard before the train started.

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It was clear that a force would be necessary to keep, orden and to prevent trespass and theft, and policemen were sworn in. There was some objection at first to the establishment of a separata body. of police for the railways Police forces were being set up throughout the country to supersede the isefficient "Charles," or watchmen. In large towns (Continued on next Column).

Such were the beginning of a servico which now finda employment for 700,000 people divided into "dozens of grades. .

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