ABSTRACT
Every veteran traveller knows – and, more than that, feels – that properly to “take one’s ease at one’s inn,” it should not be far from the point of arrival and departure. As the train gradually pauses at country town after country town, the words “Railway Hotel,” or “Railway Inn,” are among the first to catch the eye; and, for the sake of proximity to the station, and saving trouble and expense in the transport and retransport of cumbersome luggage, the traveller will often cheerfully prefer inferior accommodation close at hand to superior accommodation at the same price farther off. In the Victoria-road, Pimlico, and communicating directly with the platform of the Victoria terminus of the Brighton Railway, another monstre hotel is now in course of erection by the Grosvenor and West End Railway Terminus and Hotel Company.
