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The Railway Spine
The Victorian railway bylaws actually said that you had to put insane people in their own compartment. There was also a lot of debate over something called railway spine, which referred to the long-term physical distress reported by survivors of first passenger train crashes. The belief that there was something special about trains that made them particularly dangerous may have led to that general sense of panic around them.