Even First Class passengers on the narrow-gauge Southwold-to-Halesworth steam railway (1879-1929) had to travel in unheated carriages but at least they had a piece of carpet on their wooden benches and, in winter, a carpet-covered hot water bottle for their feet. Ordinary Third Class passengers had to make do with a sprinkling of straw on the floor to keep their feet from freezing as the train raced through the Suffolk marshes at speeds sometimes touching 16 mph.
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