Having ploughed my way through the entire text of the article now, I found it somewhat amusing to see that at a public meeting held in February 1879, the main complaints made by the attendees to the railway company were

• "the oft delayed trains involve long waiting at the station"
• "there is not enough standing or seating room in the waiting areas, and the waiting areas are filthily kept" and "the down platform is worse still, providing nothing that can be called a shelter"
• "often we find there is no room for us in the carriages and are often foul and offensive to be in"
• of our wonderful subway "it would be better termed a mudway - i have seen pigstyes much cleaner"