More about Carnforth
A whole section of the station has been reconstructed just as it was before British Railways took over. I remember Sunderland and Newcastle stations in my childhood. They were a bit grimyier than this and I suspect Carnforth was too in its steamy past.Norman
posted by The Draughtsman @ 5:02 AM
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I think you are right Norman, they weren't as pittoresque as many conservationists fondly imagine.
My memory of the 'up' main platform at Darlington in the 1950's is that there were never less than about a million dirty white tea cups and saucers around.
In those days before plastic cups if you wanted a cuppa you got it from a lady with an urn on the platform and took it on the train with you. The cups (and saucers!) were white squat pot things with BR(E) on the side and millions of them were in circulation. When you'd had your cuppa you dumped the china out at the next station onto the platform.
It must have been a major logistics exercise to wash it all up and return it to the stations where people actually wanted to buy tea. But even if you scour old photos of 1950's stations you'll be lucky to spot any evidence of this once universal practice
Vanished history eh?
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