A TRUE STORY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 701, 29 November 1933, Page 7

A TRUE STORY

TOOK 2500-MILE RAILWAY JOURNEY ON FIFTEEN SHILLINGS. | The latest story ahout a Scotsman is perfectly true, says a correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph. He is Mr. Cecil Furst, of Joppa, near Edinburgh, who came acrioss th'e bor- . der with 15s and covered 2500 miles ! of railway with his money. Mr. Furst's traveliing companions were a "run-about" holding season 1 tickets and a load of enthusiasm, with the aid of which he has beaten his •own record of 1934 miles establish'ed last year. Some people's ideas of a holiday is a long succession of lazy days spent lounging hy the- sea. Not so Mr. Furst, whose greatest delight is studying the work of the railways I 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, (h'owever, in ,a Halifax boy, who travelled 1504 miles with a holiday contract ticlcet covering' the Lancas'hire Coast and the Lake District. His (only complaint was that the trains did not travel fast enoug-h or far enough. By the end of the week travellers like these must become very attaebed to their ticket companions, which prob,ahly explains the following message scrawied across the face of a holiday season ticket given up at Wfarring(ton; "Good-bye, Old Pal; you have given me the best 15s wlorth of travel I have ever had!" A woman visitor to England has written enthusiastically and ,at great length to the Great Western Railway, claiming that sh'e has covered Comwall 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 sucessful th'at it was being continued until Oetober. These' tickets gave unlimited travel in •one of th'e 26 holiday distriots.