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Troy Steadman wrote:
(Charles Ellson) wrote in message
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Don't some old pictures show passengers on top of the stage-coaches-on-rails
as used on early railways, not so much "on top" as at the ends.

Yup, the old stagecoaches had a driver on top at the front and a
postillion (at least I've remembered that name even if I've no idea
how to spell it) at the back.

The early pictures of the L&SW show people perched on a seat outside
on the top front of each carriage in the direct line of the smoke.

"People" or "person" ? I'm not familar with the pictures you mention,
but ISTR some early railways had a brakeman in a "dicky seat" on the
outside of each vehicle - obviously borrowed from coaching practice !

Nick
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