7 SEPTEMBER 1956, Page 11

RAILWAY SANDWICH-DE-LUX 1 E A friend and I ordered two tongue sandwiches

each and coffee for two in the King's Cross Hotel, London, which is run by British Railways. The bill was 15s. Is this one of the ways by which the unlucky Sir Brian Robertson is trying to make his railways pay, or are we paying for the `contempo-, rary' papers and paint with which that once noble hotel has been redecorated?