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Article #705Re: Last train KGX->CBG
From: Brian Watson
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:38
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:38
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"tony sayer" <tony@bancom.co.uk> wrote in message news:pwi5inE8fPjMFwFg@bancom.co.uk... > Now I seem to remember when my dad was younger i.e. back in the 30s and > 40's I remember him saying that there were trains back around 1 am at > the weekends or later still you could get a mail train. Now I don't know > if thats fact or fiction so be interesting if anyone does know did > trains run so late?. Being (possibly) as old as your dad, I can confirm that the L/St-Chelmsford/Colchester line had a really useful mail and newspapers service well into the 1960s/70s that left, I think, at around 4am. Sometimes it had passenger accommodation, but I and a few "tired and emotional" mates were sometimes allowed to lounge and snooze on the bundles of newspapers as long as we promised not to either pee or be sick on them. Yes, really. Ah, those lost jumpers-for-goalposts days.... :-) -- Brian "Fight like the Devil, die like a gentleman." www.imagebus.co.uk/shop
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