TBirdFrank
On Moderation
- Joined
- 30 Dec 2009
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Times are better - on what railway please?? Pacers - I know they were BR built - but they are still here thirty years later, all but no overnight trains, slavish routing to comply with franchising - God forbid you want to do a true cross country journey - and if you do it will likely be in a two car set! No restaurant cars. Blockades for maintenance and Sod the passenger. Faster trains means its necessary to cut out stops - now have you ever heard of Gun - foot - bang?? Franchise costing too much - hand it back to the taxpayer, quick!
And yes - I was there for the end of steam - thank goodness! Camaraderie, a time when the railway was the province of most lads - not a playground for blinkered obsessives who can't look outside themselves.
And of course the railway had a second coming in the fifties and sixties - changeover years - modernisation, electrification, acceleration, and was still an industry that connected freight, ferries, hotels and passengers, unlike today's poor broken backed activity.
And yes - I was there for the end of steam - thank goodness! Camaraderie, a time when the railway was the province of most lads - not a playground for blinkered obsessives who can't look outside themselves.
And of course the railway had a second coming in the fifties and sixties - changeover years - modernisation, electrification, acceleration, and was still an industry that connected freight, ferries, hotels and passengers, unlike today's poor broken backed activity.