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CHAPTER II.
The Norwegian Railway—Continental railway management compared
with English—Treatment of third-class passengers and its effect
upon the dividends—Eidsvold—A Norwegian " Station "—Tlie
Miosen Lake—My friend the cook—The Scandinavian origin
of Englishmen—Knapsacks in general and my own in particular
—A pedestrian’s outfit and laundry—Lillehammer—The
Guldbrandsdal—The Norwegian carriole—Eladbrod—Attendance at
a Norwegian farm-house station—Eccentric Englishmen in
Norway—Traces of ancient glaciers.
In the afternoon I took the railway to Eidsvold, a
distance of about forty miles English; fare by third
class, 2 marks 18 skillings—about 2s. 5d. There are
four classes: the fourth-class carriages are open, the
third class the same as our second, and the second
nearly equal to our first class. The first class, on this,
as on most continental lines, is a sort of fancy article,
maintained chiefly for the purpose of obtaining an extra
price from Englishmen, the natives rarely using it.
Here also, as on other continental lines, the directors
know something of the elementary principles upon
which commercial success depends, and therefore pay
most attention to their best customers, the mass of the
people; while the heads of which our railway boards
are made, treat their third-class customers—who should
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