Thomas Alfred Coward

“ THERE was nothing in Bradshaw, nor anything on the railway ticket to Port Carlisle, to suggest peculiar means of locomotion; we noted that we had to change at Drumburgh, that was all. But when we alighted at that busy junction, there was the dandy, with its locomotive skewed across the metals, gazing with equine contemplation at its rival on the Silloth line. The dandy is a survival—a railway carriage drawn by a horse, but distinctly a railway carriage and not a tram. In general shape, colour, and wheels. ”

“ When we reached Glasson there was a crowd of perhaps half a dozen waiting on the platform, and whilst the driver attended to the receipt of fares the engine left the metals and browsed contentedly on the bank. Perhaps there were a couple of dozen passengers in all, inside and out, but in summer there are at times so many as fifty; the overflow sits with the heavy luggage on the top. ”