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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 8 (December 1, 1927)

The Smoking Car

The Smoking Car.

Smoking compartments to-day form so large a proportion of the passenger accommodation provided on the Home railways, that it is difficult to realise in the early days of our railways passengers who sought the solace of the fragrant weed met with scant sympathy either from the railway authorities or their fellow-travellers. It was the old Great Eastern Company, now part and parcel of the L. & N. E. group, which first enabled the railway traveller to enjoy a comfortable smoke, by introducing smoking carriages more than seventy years ago. Later, in 1868 to be precise, a clause was introduced into the Railway Regulations Bill, making it imperative on the part of all the Home railways to provide special accommodations for smoker in each class of carriage on every train.