randyrippley
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One of the most remarkable train jouneys I've had was behind an 87.........BR had laid on a northbound special to cater for returnees from a Buck House garden party, first stop Preston and the ticket guys at Euston were packing as many Lancashire-bound people on it as they could. It was timetabled to depart two minutes before the scheduled service (around 17:05) and went like a bat out of hell - the driver was obviously told to get out of the way and not hold anything else up. I've forgotten the exact details but we got to Preston something like 20 minutes early, and then Preston-Lancaster in around 13 minutes start to stop. As far as I can remember we didn't get a single signal check on the whole journey - the impression was that BR were trying to squeeze two trains into the path of one