Re: Scotland on Sunday: Secret talks on London bullet train

"Graeme Wall" <Rail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>
> 1968, it's the only time I've done London-Glasgow by train.  At that
time
I
> was earning £12/10/0 a week.  IIRC the return journey was 5 and a half
hours.
>
1968 the wires only went as far as Crewe (actually Weaver Junction).
Euston
to Glasgow took 6.5 hours, or a bit more.
1970 trains were booked for a pair of 50s between Crewe and Glasgow, and
journey time from Euston was reduced to 6 hours, or a few minutes less.
1974 the wires were up through to Glasgow, and the Royal Scot was booked
in
5 hours, with only one intermediate stop at Preston. On one occasion when
I
travelled on it during the 1970s it got to Glasgow 22 hours late, having
been dragged from Crewe to Preston via Denton, because of a freight
collision at Weaver Junction.

Peter