28 MAY 1954, Page 40

Enticing the Tourist

By WILFRED TAYLOR ABOUT a year ago, while lolling in an armchair as 0a guest in a private railway coach on a track inspect journey between Edinburgh and Berwick, I suggestel to my companions, a group of hospitable British Railvi`!Y,0 engineers, that they were not progressive and imaginatnA enough. Why let the Santa Fe railroad put the old Highlail'„,” Railway to shame? They ought, I said, my mood expanding the comfortable surroundings, to exploit the opportunities till had for enticing the well-to-do tourist from abroad, arl, especially Americans, by providing, during the season, rail" facilities of an original kind.