Fares meaning

Those who paid the highest fares (22d.

With many this is a practice at all seasons, and the railway companies foster the habit by means of tickets at reduced fares to all parts.

But though by an act of 1844 the railways were obliged to run at least one train a day over their lines, by which the fares did not exceed the " Parliamentary " rate of id.

On the continent of Europe there are occasionally four classes, but though the local fares are often appreciably lower than in Great Britain, only first and second class, sometimes only first class, passengers are admitted to the fastest trains, for which in addition a considerable extra fare is often required.