With the coming of Sound Transit Light Rail in mind, I direct this passage from “Victorian Detective Fiction” to the publisher of The Stranger, Tim Keck:

The Strand Magazine was launched in 1891 by George Newnes, an editor who had already experienced considerable commercial success with the periodical ‘Tit-Bits. Newnes’ acute business sense, combined with a kind of public paternalism (perhaps best exemplified in the ‘Tit-Bits Insurance Scheme’, whereby the next-of-kin of anybody killed in a railway accident could claim insurance if the deceased had had a copy of Newnes’ magazine with them), suggested that the new magazine was guaranteed at least a degree of success, as well as providing the reading public with what Newnes described in the first issue as ‘cheap, healthful literature’.