5 MAY 1928, Page 3

On Tuesday the London and North-Eastern Railway opened a non-stop

service from King's Cross to Edin- burgh, a distance of 392k miles. This is said to be the longest non-stop service in the world. A change is made in the staff of the engine half-way through the journey, and a corridor connexion is provided so that the relief driver and fireman can pass from the train to the foot- plate. Other innovations are a hairdressing saloon and an electric kitchen. What about a shorthand writer and a manicurist as in American trains ? Perhaps they will come in time. Last week the Midland and Scottish Railway suddenly anticipated the London and North- Eastern scheme by running a non-stop train from Euston to Edinburgh, a distance of 899 miles.

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