vaughan45

The past is always a better place, but you do forget the bad as time passes.

Yup.

Tinned tomato soup and curly sarnies. Dirt outside and in, blocked loos, distracted staff, chronic underfunding.

What people miss is a railway that was a whole (behave!) and if you had a valid ticket, it was possible to get to your destination by any route possible, unlike the demarcation lines drawn by competing franchises.