"There was never a Golden Age of the railway. I can remember a 'late-running arrivals board' at Euston before the war. It read up to 99 minutes late. One day in 1939, every slot on the board was full. We southern types called the LMS 'ell of a mess'. The recent privatisation has been a much bigger mess. If there was anything like a Golden Age, it was between 1900 and 1920, before the car got into its stride."
Ian Allen - king of trainspotters - in The Observer magazine
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