A RAILWAY GRIEVANCE.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7421, 21 September 1889, Page 6

A RAILWAY GRIEVANCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS. Sir, -1 should like, through your ooloSns, to draw the »tt Mti onctfti» BaUway Commissioners to a Pfonat* from which passengers get ting onj*"»•*; fess-fis -"Sf -gags Si*e),?alißeß, bags, rugs, overcoats^ shawls, and a variety bf articles too numerous to mention, but all clearly indicative of the owners* wishes to appropriate the carriage to themselves to the exclusion of everybody else. I have even seen toe law seats, intended to a ccom *?? p*reons,covered withf erna and flo wer-pots. ft the intruder ventures to disturb any of this lumbering paraphernalia with the view of getting a seat, he or she is promptly told 7 'All the seats are enand is driven to find » resting place in some uncomfortable part of the train. Finally, when the train moves off, it is seen, that the saloon carriages are not half filled with passengers. It appears to mc that the guards of the trains should be instructed to stop this sort of thing, and to see that the country passengers get proper seating accommodation, The half a doaen passengers who enter the express at Christchurch or Punedin ought not to be permitted u> menopause all the bssx, carnages. Portmanteaue and all articles which cannot be pat ander the seats or on the wire brackets at the top of the carriages should be rigidly excluded from the passenger carriages and remitted to their proper place, viz., the guard's van. Moreover, when one person is seen to occupy three or four seats with his rugs and trappings (a not uncommon circumstance) theeuard should make him either remove them Or pay for the whole of the seats thus unTrarraiitibly occupied. t may add that this evil is a growing one, and ladies are the greatest sufferers from it. It can be remedied without any expense to the railway authorities, whae a large number of travellers would be thereby benefited.—l am, Sec., ""«* / Railway Traveller. Ashburton, 20th September.