ACME OF TRAVEL COMFORT

Shannon News, 2 October 1928, Page 2

ACME OF TRAVEL COMFORT

. MOTOR v. RAILWAY TRAIN. "The train ran. so smoothly one might almost have been in a motor qar."*This is an extract from a tribute %'a lady (tho .wife of an ex-Colonial Governor) to the ™ Flying Scotsman," the London and.l.Northeastern Railway ; s new Lonrlon-JJdinburgh In its unconscious,' compliment to the mo'dcrn car it is superb. Consider.the train's advantages. Its motive power is steam, and no internal combustion engine ever invented can deliver its power through pistons and cylinders ,so sweetly and smoothly as steam. It runs on rails laid with mathematical precision on the flattest possible bed—a "road" with which the newest arterial highway cannot compare; an'd it is subject to no sudden checks and swervings due to the presence of other vehicles or obstacles in its "right-of-way. -'■--..- And yet, : in spite" of all, the finest British railway train (which is as good as saying the.finest train in the world) is-not as ;coinfqr table to travel in as a good motor car.