It is a practice run and the cart is carrying two large water-tanks, instead of live passengers.
A goth rock star celebrates being one of the plane's few living passengers with a groupie foursome — although, in a nice satirical touch, he needs Viagra to participate.
As I wrote when the original pilot went live, passengers must select cash payments before ordering their ride in order to use the option.
As with the carriages for living passengers, the hearse vans were designed to prevent bodies mixing with those from different backgrounds.
As the railway was intended only to be used by Londoners visiting the cemetery or attending funerals, the only tickets ever issued to living passengers were returns from London.
In 1918 the LSWR (which provided the LNC's passenger carriages) abandoned second class services and the LNC as a consequence discontinued the sale of second class fares to living passengers, but continued to separate coffin tickets into first, second and third class dependent on the type of funeral booked.
Live passengers were charged 6s in first class, 3s 6d in second class and 2s in third class (in 1854 worth about £, £ and £ respectively in consumer terms) for a return ticket, while dead passengers were charged £1 in first class, 5s in second class and 2s 6d in third class (in 1854 worth about £, £ and £ respectively in consumer terms) for a one-way ticket.
The Independent touched on the issue last week, prompting a contribution from a reader who recalled his flight arriving minus one live passenger.
The launch of Sputnik 2 was timed to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the October Revolution, and the craft itself was an appropriately showy statement of Communist know-how — six times heavier than Sputnik 1, designed to fly nearly twice as high, and, most impressive of all, containing a live passenger.
The live passenger rates rose to 7s 5d in first class and 2s 6d in third class, with equivalent changes to the fares for coffins.
