Railways and Third Class passengers.

INDIAN passengers travelling third class have not yet be able to obtain even ordinary conveniences they require. They are treated as undesirables except for the great revenue they pay. The proudest companies in India refuse to carry them in their fast mail trains. Railway Boards and Railway conferences seldom pay heed to the third class travellers. Cattle trucks are what they deserve when they go on a pilgrimage in such large numbers as to swell the company's revenue. The Hindu of Madras quotes from a British paper the following account of the treatment of third class passengers on British Railways:- "Slowly but surely the third class railway passenger is coming into his own. In the beginning open trucks were considered good enough for him. But for many years past enterprising managers, realising that third class is the backbone of their passenger revenue, have gone on improving it until now there is little to choose in point of equipment between third and first class carriages".