Wednesday, August 28, 2024

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Two-storied third-class carriage on the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway, 1864. [This type of carriage] '...was first tried in the early part of the year 1862, and has been found to be most popular with the natives as well as economical for the company. These carriages, indeed, are usually better filled than the ordinary ones, for the passengers like them better. They are constructed each to carry 120 passengers - viz., 70 in the lower story and 50 in the upper; whilst the ordinary carriages only carry 70 persons each. It may be observed, therefore, that seven of the two-storied carr