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    TRIVIA - Things you saw travelling on BR that you don't see today

    Strip lights with station names. Square chocolate bars from a bygone era, somehow surviving on station platforms. Passing through endless dereliction.
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    TRIVIA - Things you saw travelling on BR that you don't see today

    Those physics-defying hot drinks cups that kept liquid superheated the entire length of the east coast (didn't they have a coffee filter built built in). Incredibly bouncy trains and seats on branch lines. ISTR that being of particular interest as a teenager (we did mention pure filth earlier)...
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    Your very first rail journey with parents

    Most likely on the Trans-Clyde routes to/from Blantyre ca 1975. Or possibly something around Paisley, but I suspect the former. The first I remember? Oh, Chelmsford to Liverpool Street, probably around 1980. Hunting for a "rover ticket" in Broad Street. Non-corridor loco-hauled stock.

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