Blinkbonny
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I am immensely confused as to the exact location of Parsley Sidings as featured in the Radio4 Extra documentary series: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dlyyp/episodes/guide
It appears to be a small country station, answerable to St Pancras, with only a few trains per day (most of which habitually run late) and yet it boasts a full complement of staff including Station Master, Ticket Clerk, Signalman, Porter, and Refreshment Room manageress.
And wherever it is it seems to have the power to divert the "Brighton Express" to Glasgow with just one simple points setting error!
On this evidence not only was Beeching entirely justified in his famous "Axe" but the Privatisation of the Railways couldn't come soon enough.
It appears to be a small country station, answerable to St Pancras, with only a few trains per day (most of which habitually run late) and yet it boasts a full complement of staff including Station Master, Ticket Clerk, Signalman, Porter, and Refreshment Room manageress.
And wherever it is it seems to have the power to divert the "Brighton Express" to Glasgow with just one simple points setting error!
On this evidence not only was Beeching entirely justified in his famous "Axe" but the Privatisation of the Railways couldn't come soon enough.