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2 unusual facts about Second class


British Rail Mark 3

Complaints from train guards about engine noise in the guards' compartments in the power cars led to an additional variant, the Trailer Guard Second (TGS) in 1980, based on the TS but with the end vestibule and one seating bay replaced by a guard's compartment.

The original Mk3 coaches delivered as part of HST sets for Western Region (Class 253) contained Trailer First (TF), Trailer Second (TS), and Trailer Buffet Second (TRSB) variants in formation TF-TF-TRUK-TS-TRSB-TS-TS.



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Action of 16 January 1916

Upon arrival, Captain Dohna-Schlodien received an Iron Cross second class.

Albert Bythesea Weigall

He received second class honours in Literae Humaniores in 1862, and the following year travelled to Australia after a sea voyage was recommended for him to recover from illness.

Anne E. DeChant

Examples include Girls and Airplanes (gender equality), Green Hand (supporting troops post-war), Swastika (Holocaust denial), 25 (imbalance in economic status), and Second Class Citizen (prejudice and intolerance toward the gay community).

Bealings railway station

Bradshaw's stated that the 08:17 departure conveyed first and third class Pullman carriages (there was no second class at this time), arriving in Liverpool Street at 10:30.

Begtabegishvili

They were the grandees of the second class under the Princes Baratashvili.

Bradman Weerakoon

He obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree with second class honors (upper division) in economics and sociology from University of Ceylon and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study in University of Michigan for one year where he did his MA in Sociology.

Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning

He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1833, as first class in classics and second class in mathematics.

Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin-class destroyer

Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin class destroyers were the second class of ships to be produced in the Republic of Korea Navy's destroyer mass-production program named Korean Destroyer eXperimental, which paved the way for the navy to become a blue-water navy.

Composite Corridor

The British Railways Mark 1 CK, built from 1951 onwards, had four First-class and three Third-class (Second-class from 1956) compartments, with a vestibule separating the 1st and 2nd sections, and a sliding door (usually fixed open) to divide the corridor.

E. W. Bastard

Although he continued to play for the side in second-class cricket until 1889, by the time Somerset resumed first-class cricket in 1891, Bastard had lost his place following the emergence of Sammy Woods and the acquisitions of Ted Tyler and George Nichols.

Economy of Kenya

British colonizers instituted segregation based on skin colour: Whites were first-class citizens, Indians (who had been brought to Kenya to work on the East African Railway as slaves, were second-class citizens, and native Kenyans were third-class citizens.

Edith Haisman

Edith was 15 years old when she and her parents boarded the RMS Titanic in Southampton, England as second-class passengers.

Enrico Salvatori

In London he exhibited the following works: Diana the Hunter; Pastor fido; Plato; Narcisus; Homer; and Berenice, and obtained a diploma of second class with a silver medal.

Gavin Pyper

When the British Touring Car Championship started a second class B in 2000 to boost the size of the grid, he entered an Alfa Romeo 156 which was run by former touring car driver Gary Ayles.

Gender segregation and Islam

There is a growing women's movement led by figures such as Asra Nomani who protest against their second-class status and facilities.

George M. Lowry

Five men volunteered: Joseph G. Harner, Coxswain J. F. Schumaker, Boatswain's Mate Second Class George Cregan, and Seamen Harry C. Beasley and Lawrence C. Sinnett.

Hannes Hafstein

He obtained the National Grammar School Leavng Certificate (stúdentspróf) in 1880 and obtained a degree in Law (Lower Second Class) from the University of Copenhagen in 1886.

Harry Bartell

Upon moving to California, he became a favorite of producer/director Norman MacDonnell, performing frequently on Escape (notably as Ronald Dawson in The Second Class Passenger and Peyton Farquar in Ambrose Bierce's An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge), and was a leading member of the Gunsmoke repertory company.

Henry Thompson MRCVS

He obtained many academic distinctions including two silver medals for Anatomy and Physiology, and both first and second class certificates for Chemistry, Histology and Pathology.

Herbert Hugo Menges

Herbert Hugo Menges, born in Louisville, Kentucky 20 January 1917 enlisted in the Naval Reserve as seaman second class at Robertson, Missouri on 3 July 1939.

Isla de Cuba

Isla de Cuba, a Spanish second-class protected cruiser in service from 1887 to 1898 that fought in the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.

Isla de Luzon

Isla de Luzon, a Spanish Navy second-class protected cruiser that fought in the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.

James Banning

He was a passenger in a two-seater Travelaire biplane flown by Navy machinist mate second class Albert Burghardt, who was at the controls because Banning had been refused use of the airplane by an instructor at the Airtech Flying School.

Jan Thomée

He is still one of few people that joined the National team while still playing second class football at DSV Concordia.

Japanese ironclad Fusō

Fusō arrived in Yokohama on 11 June 1878, via the Suez Canal and the Indian Ocean and was classed as a second-class warship due to her small size.

Julie Dash

The film follows her life and her marriage to Raymond Parks (Peter Francis James) as they deal with the issues of segregation, Jim Crow and second-class status in 1950s Alabama.

Julius Ogunro

He graduated best of his faculty with a second class upper degree in Mass Communication from the Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria in 2001.

Lviv railway station

The second class waiting room was modelled after 19th century burgher houses in Galicia, while the third class waiting hall was equipped with simple wooden pieces of furniture, modelled after the Zakopane style of Polish Gorals made by the artist Tadeusz Obmiński.

Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company

Lieutenant-Governor Sir Charles Hotham and Lady Hotham were aboard the train - which consisted of two first class carriages and one second class - and were presented with satin copies of the railway's timetable and bylaws.

Nadir of American race relations

While there were critics in the scientific community such as Franz Boas, eugenics and scientific racism were promoted in academia by scientists Lothrop Stoddard and Madison Grant, who argued "scientific evidence" for the racial superiority of whites and thereby worked to justify racial segregation and second-class citizenship for blacks.

Nava Telangana Praja Party

According to the party the people of Telangana were being treated as second class citizens, due to lack of drinking water for in spite of having two major rivers (Krishna and Godavari) flowing in the region.

RMS Ophir

One appreciative passenger was "the Welsh Swagman" Joseph Jenkins who embarked at Melbourne on 24 November 1894, bound for Tilbury Docks in a second-class cabin at the fare of £26 15s 6d.

Scalawag

Many also joined the Redeemers in their successful attempt to replace the brief period of civil rights promised to African Americans during the Reconstruction era with the Jim Crow era of segregation and second-class citizenship that persisted into the 20th century.

Standard Open

Second class coaches with more conventional 2+2 abreast seating were designated Tourist Standard Open (TSO).

United States Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School

During December 1940, the second class to be commissioned in the midshipmen program graduated from Northwestern University as did the third and fourth classes in 1941.

Winnifred Quick

Eight-year-old Winnifred, along with her mother and sister, boarded the Titanic as second-class passengers at Southampton, England.

WPZE

The frequency already belonged to WGHR in Marietta, the student radio station at what is now Southern Polytechnic State University — however the forced downgrade to second-class status left the class D station vulnerable.