Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 8, Number 44, DeMotte, Jasper County, 22 September 1938 — Paul Bunyan’s Ry. Station Discovered by Small Boy on His Visit to London [ARTICLE]

Paul Bunyan’s Ry. Station Discovered by Small Boy on His Visit to London

The sort of . railway station that only Paul Bunyan could have built was described recently by a Bridgnorth small boy w’ho visited London and wrote about it to his envious smaller brother at home, according to a Bridgnorth, England, correspondent in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Written in all seriousness, the letter, which came into the possession of C. N. Turner, of the Associated British and Irish railways, follows: “The sight of Paddington station is really beyond description. The roof is practically invisible, being 2,500 feet above the platforms, airplanes circling beneath it all day. The roof is made of glass and requires 5,000 men to clean it once w’eekly in an airship. “There are so many platforms that it is totally impossible to count them—the length of them is quite five miles. There are motor buses to take passengers from one end of a platform to the other; each bus holds 3,000 people. “The trains are colossal; each train consists of 4.000 coaches and requires 20 engines to pull it. The trains are of the corridor type and

are equipped with motorcycles to convey passengers to lavatories and dining saloons. “Each engine is 50,000-horsepower and requires 50 men to stoke it. It is necessary to have motor lorries in each cabin to convey the coal from tender to firebox. “There is a refreshment room at Paddington station which is seven times the length of Bridgnorth High street and four times as wide. “The station master is as big as St. Leonard’s church, Bridgnorth, the biggest man in the world, One cannot fail to hear him coming, as his boots are as big as the North Gate. He walks over the trains without any difficulty whatsoever.”