ALLPORT, SIR JAMES JOSEPH English railway manager, was, for 20 years onwards from 1853, the gen eral manager of the Midland railway. He is remembered as the pioneer of cheap and comfortable railway travelling. He was the first to appreciate the importance of the third-class passenger as a source of revenue, and in 1872 he inaugurAed the policy, subsequently followed by all the important railways of Great Britain, of carrying passengers in well-fitted third-class carriages at the rate of a penny a mile. He was also the first to introduce the Pullman car on British railways. Allport was knighted in 1884. He died in London on April 25, 1892.