SCOTSMAN'S TRAVEL RECORD

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21640, 4 November 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)

SCOTSMAN'S TRAVEL RECORD

2500 MILES FOR 15s HOLIDAY TICKET SUCCESS The latest story .about a Scotsman is perfectly true, says a correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. He is Mr. Cecil Furst, of Joppa, near Edinburgh, who came across the border with 15s, and covered -2000 miles of railway with his money. .Mr. Furst's travelling companions were a " run-about" holding season ticket and a load of enthusiasm, with the aid of which he has beaten his own record of 1934 miles established last year. Some people's idea of a holiday is a long succession of lazy days spent lounging by the sea. Not so Mr. Furst, whose greatest delight is studying the work of the railways and watching great engines steaming about their business. His holiday was spent careering about the Carlisle countryside in a railway carriage. On two separate days he travelled 370 miles —and all in the same district. This Scotsman has a keen rival, however, in a Halifax boy, who travelled 1504 miles with a holiday contract ticket covering the Lancashire Coast and the Lake District. His only complaint was that the trains did not travel fast enough or far enough. By the end of the week travellers like these must become very attached to their ticket companions, which probably explains the following message scrawled across the face of a holiday season given up at Warrington: "Goodbye, Old Pal; you have given nic the best 15s worth of travel 1 have ever had!" A woman visitor to England has written enthusiastically and at great length to the Great Western Railway, claiming that she has covered Cornwall with a 10s note. This pioneer travelled 400 miles in the week, and contrived at the same time to visit all the beauty spots worth seeing. The London and North Eastern Railway Company recently stated that it issued 83,000 holiday season tickets between May and August, and that the scheme was so successful that it was being continued until October. These tickets gave unlimited travel in one of 26 holiday districts.