Pullman

We had the corner of a Pullman car to ourselves that evening as we whirled back to London.

Philip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, was born in 1946 in the medieval city of Norwich.

It is realised that the old Pullman standard sleeper, with its convertible "sections", each containing upper and lower berths, and with no greater privacy at night than the curtains drawn along both sides of a middle aisle, has had its day.