A COSTLY MODE OF TRAVELLING.

Hastings Standard, Volume XII, Issue 5846, 9 May 1908, Page 3 (Supplement)

A COSTLY MODE OF TRAVELLING.

When the Dowager Empress of Russian paid a visit to her daughter the Grand Duchess Xenia, at Biarritz last year. Her Majesty travelled in her own special train consisting of four carriages, all the way from St. Petersburgh. and during her stay the train was put up in a shed in the Bayonne station at the trifling cost of £4O a day. As the Empress's sojourn at Biarritz lasted over three weeks, a very resnectable total was reached. It is true that the train was guarded night and day. which necessitated a special staff of railway servants, and the daily cleaning and polishing also took up a good deal of their time. King Edward's iourrieys tn Biarritz are managed with a view to combining the utmost comfort with a wis'j economy. To avoid the necessitv of a molt engine, the royal train follow the southern express at ten minutes' intervals, with the result that less exalted mortals who select the s.-rnie day as his Majesty to travel south occasionally experience some slight inconvenience. Last year the railway employees were so preoccupied with the royal train that they forgot to couple on the restaurant car to the sr.uthern express, with the result that the hapless travellers went dinnerless.