The following scene occurred at the high-level Crystal Palace line:—“A
newspaper correspondent was amused at the indignation of a lady against
the porters who interfered to prevent her taking her dog into the
carriage. The lady argued that Parliament had compelled the companies to
find separate carriages for smokers, and they ought to be further
compelled to have a separate carriage for ladies with lap-dogs, and it
was perfectly scandalous that they should be separated, and a valuable
dog, worth perhaps thirty or forty guineas, should be put into a dog
compartment. I have some of the B stock of the railway, upon which not a
penny has ever been paid, and I could not help comparing my experience of
this particular line of railway with that of my fellow-traveller, and
wondering what sort of a train that would be which would provide
accommodation for all the wants and wishes of railway travellers.”