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 12 s. ix. SEPT. io, mi.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 213 appears in ' Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway,' Birmingham (no date), 1837 or a little later. The fares from Liverpool or Manchester to j Birmingham were : First Class Coach, six inside, whether s. d. in First Class or in Mixed Trains. . 110 Mail Coach, four inside. . . . ..150 Bed-carriage, in Mail Coach. . . . 200 Second Class Coach. . . . . . 14 Children under Ten Years of Age, half-price. (Freeling, p. 15.) The time occupied in the journey from Liver- pool or Manchester to Birmingham was, by First ! Class, 4h. 35m., and by Mixed, 5h. 30ni. (ibid., p. 16). On Sundays there were the four First Class Trains only, with the addition of Second Class j Coaches, starting at the same hours as on week- ! days, but taking up and setting down passengers j at the six principal stopping places only (ibid., j p. 15). In Bradshaw's Railway Time Tables, the first dated 10th Mo. 19th, 1839 reprinted 1901 in the table of Preston to Liverpool and Manchester the trains are variously, Mixed, First class, Second class and Mail. In the margin it is announced that : A Mixed Train will start from Wigan every Morning (Sunday excepted) at ten minutes before 8 a.m., running to Parkside to meet the Liverpool and Manchester half -past 7 o'clock Train. In ' Drake's Road Book ' is a folding sheet containing, as well as a map, a picture of a train consisting of engine, named " Wild Fire," tender, marked " GJ.RW " ; coach, of three compartments, middle one named I " Reformer" ; coach of three compartments, middle one bearing the words " Royal Mail " and the Royal arms, the front compartment being a coupe ; on the top are two long cases, the nearer one with the Royal arms ; on a high rumble at the back is a guard or post- man ; then comes a truck on which is a large private carriage with two occupants ; this is followed by a coach similar to the first except that the name on the middle com- partment is " Conservative " ; at the end is a truck on which is luggage. Each of the outside compartments of the three coaches has either " Manchester " or "Liverpool" on it. The various names run from side to side in large letters on the com- partments. There are no seats shown on the roofs ; therefore it would appear that the announcement about " seats on the roof " refers to mixed trains, and that the pictured train is a mail train. ROBERT PIERPOINT. The quotation from Wilkie Collins' s ' No Name ' probably refers to a train carrying both goods and passengers, though origin- ally it meant a train consisting of different classes of carriages. Wilkie Collins uses the same expression in ' Armadale ' (1866). The first edition of Bradshaw's Railway Time Table, published in October, 1839, gives " the mixed trains consist of first class carriages carrying six inside, and of second class carriages open at the side," and the time table for trains from Bolton to Liverpool and Manchester given in the Bradshaw is, " Quarter-past-seven, second- class train ; twenty minutes before nine, first-class train," &c., showing that it was then usual to run trains of one class only. By 1850, according to Lardner's ' Railway Economy,' the meaning had altered to " mixed trains, by which goods and passen- gers are indifferently carried," and since then that has been the generally accepted meaning. ARCHIBALD SPARKE. This was undoubtedly a mixed passenger and goods train. I have often travelled by such a train in Austria, where it was known as a " Bummelzug/' from zug = train, and bummel = to ramble along. The latter word has become familiar to English readers through Jerome K. Jerome's ' Three Men on the Bummel.' L. L. K. See Regulations of the Grand Junction Railroad Company, Freeling' s ' Railway Companion ' (1838) : The First-class trains will consist of coaches carrying six inside, and of mails carrying four out- side. The Mixed trains will consist of both first and second class coaches. A. H. W. FYNMORE. Arundel. SABINE (12 S. ix. 91). Gen. Joseph Sabine's children were two sons John, m. Susannah Osbourn and had a son Joseph ; Joseph, killed at Fontenoy 1745, aged about 23 and throo daughters Margaretta Diana, m. 1741 Sir Charles Sheffield, Bart ; Frances ; Carolina Ann. There are refer- ences to the family scattered throughout Clutterbuck's * Herts.' J. B. WHITMORE. GREENHOUSE (12 S. ix. 149). I have always supposed that a " greenhouse " was so called as being designed for the accommo- dation of " green things upon the earth." as distinct from houses for men or beasts. J. T. F. Winter! on, Lines.