Railway travel is made so much more interesting nowadays in a hundred and one ways. Look at the development of locomotive naming, for example, a practice which has grown steadily through the years, and one which has a great deal to commend it. Last year no fewer than 160 Home railway locomotives were given distinctive names, and during the past few weeks fresh christening ceremonies have been going on throughout the country. Ten new L. M. & S. engines of the “Princess Coronation” class, being built at Crewe, are to be named after the Duchesses of Gloucester, Norfolk, Devonshire, Rutland, Hamilton, Buccleuch, Atholl, Montrose, Sutherland and Abercorn. Five of these locomotives are of orthodox appearance, and the other five are streamlined like the “Coronation” and “Queen Elizabeth” engines. Four locomotives of the “Patriot” class have very appropriately been named after famous Army regiments. The L. & N.E.R. have carried forward the naming of their streamlined “Pacifics” after wild birds. “Golden Plover,” “Wild Swan” and “Sparrow Hawk” are examples. On the Great Western, we have the new group of “Manor” locomotives. Twenty engines of this class have so far been turned out of the Swindon Shops. Twenty-one additions have been made to the list of “Earls,” and nineteen to the “Castles.” No new names have lately been given to Southern locomotives, owing to this line's concentration upon electrification developments. Like the other group systems, however, the Southern favours locomotive-naming for its powerful steam passenger engines plying to and from the West Country.