Interesting, I don't know much about Railway Uniforms, but the guard's cap looks continental. British passenger coaches then were of the compartment type, 5 a side with usually a corridor on one edge [ we didn't adopt the inferior open compartments until the 1970s/80s ].
So I'm thinking German [ note the camera make ], Swiss [ both with lakes rather than seacoasts ] or France. Maybe Japan, but unsure how many young ladies travelled alone [ possibly ] in western clothes in the 1920s.
Just read Railways are the most important means of passenger transportation in Japan, maintaining this status since the late nineteenth century. Right now ! Wiki
This is sadly not the case where they were invented...*
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Partly due to the semi-insane privatisation, breaking up a fairly incompetent national railway company into a lot of very incompetent private railway companies.
Railways are the most important means of passenger transportation in Japan, maintaining this status since the late nineteenth century. Right now ! Wiki
This is sadly not the case where they were invented...*
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Partly due to the semi-insane privatisation, breaking up a fairly incompetent national railway company into a lot of very incompetent private railway companies.
Quite; it must be observed that the privatisation, so-called, did not involve restoring to the original (competent) ownership what had been first appropriated in "rationalisation" and then confiscated via "nationalisation" (which made the railways irrational and afterwards took them out of the hands of the nation), but instead flogging it off to still-less responsible owners, pimping the railways that had been the envy of the world out in a 'franchise' system, while maintaining ownership of the track, land, etc. - this has now been dubiously 'renationalised', but I fear we can expect only more contradictory muddle, with the only two consistent factors being firstly, that some people will be doing very well out of it all, thank you, and that secondly Japan's railways will continue to be the best in the world, while their mixed system defies both die-hards for 'nationalisation' and 'private ownership' (I will never understand the sort who in one breath decries the Beeching cuts, then in the next cries for the very 'nationalisation' which made them possible).
My suggestion is to put new or existing hereditary peers in charge of the railways (and perhaps more, now that they are to be kicked out of the House of Lords); surely some autistic train-obsessed railway barons of the literal sort could be found - and if needs be, ennobled - to do the best job under the circumstances. No one would want to be known as the Lord with a lousy railway, and the profits could be sensibly put into maintaining stately homes (or replacing the ones that have been sadly demolished already), with the proviso the Great Unhosed get to visit and admire the Chippendales, the furniture, or suchlike things.
