Note 28 — Chapter XIII

The following anecdote I find recorded by Sir R. Hill, “The Clayton tunnel, the longest one upon the London and Brighton Railway, bore for some time, though quite undeservedly, the reputation of being unsafe. One day when I was travelling through it, a man, addressing me said; ’sir this tunnel does a power of good.’‘How so?’I asked. ‘Why,’he replied, ‘there are more prayers said in this tunnel than in all the churches in Brighton put together.’”—Ed.