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Of course children still travel to school by train. Children from Dalmally and intermediate stations between Dalmally and Oban travel to school on the 5.20 Glasgow Queen Street to Oban and return on the 16.11 Oban to Dalmally.

When I was an impoverished schoolboy I saved up to buy a particular item. When I had just enough money I went to my local model shop. The member of staff took the box down off the shelf, looked at the price on the box, scored the price out, and wrote on a new higher price. I didn't have enough money to pay the new higher price. Even as a schoolboy, I could not understand why the price of an item already in stock, and for which the retailer had presumably already paid the wholesale price to his supplier, could suddenly be increased. To my mind it simply meant additional profit for the retailer. I later became a more affluent professional and have spent thousands of pounds on model railway items - not one penny of which was spent in that particular model shop. It subsequently went out of business. There's a lesson there.