…and your point is…?

David Davis

….“passengers forced to use older trains”…. (average age 15.5 years…..so what?)

What the f****** f*** are these journos smoking? Could I have some? If I was forced to ride upon a train for tavelling purposes, then I’d want ot be in what was called “rolling stock” that I was used to, and knew how to hack, which was really “corridor cars” dating from about 1950/1960.

These were good and warm in the winter. You just needed a “key”, to ensire that you and those with you in the compartment didn’t freeze to death.

All you had to do was find and get a “key” from the guards van (so we did) for opening the various doors and windows and cubby-holes,  and for turning on the various services and boxes in the out-of-bounds-areas of the “car” when the ASLEF  Union Guys had turned same off as it was winter and it was time to strike, and you’d be OK even in the winter.

There were no cameras then.

Here’s an “older train” for you, now:-

And, some more older trains:-

This is a classic. Engines, made by human beings, don’t really get any better than this:-