How the system worked on the Great Western Railway was summarised in its Time Book (timetable) for 1863, with a fine sense of upholding class differences: Passengers in Private Carriages (not being servants) are required to take first-class tickets, and such passengers may remove during the journey to the Company’s First-class carriages if there be sufficient room in them. Servants travelling on private carriages are required to take Second-class tickets and they may remove to Second-class carriages provided there be room. A groom travelling in a horse-box in charge of a horse is allowed to
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