I don't know if it's still there, but in the entrance to Manchester Victoria there was a beautiful map of the L&Y system tiled on the walls. I last saw it in the '80's shortly before my Dad retired. There's been major remodelling since then with the Metrolink trams and all. I hope it survived!
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They would never know we would be staring back 100+ years later on the fist pic
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Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but i don’t think theirs anyone left to be nostalgic for this
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National Railway Museum
Nostalgia time. Busy stations!
1. c1880. Commuters are intrigued by a photographer while waiting for a workman's train. These affordably priced trains ran into large towns in the early morning and returned in the evening. They were implemented by Act of Parliament so that workers displaced by the construction of the railways could still reach their place of work.
2. June 1949. Passengers leave the 09.00 train en masse at Fenchurch Street station, London—the city's smallest terminus. By the 1950s the station handled 175 trains a day, carrying about 38,000 passengers. Commuter traffic increased in the 1960s following electrification of the line.
3. August 1927. Saturday crowds board a train for Blackpool on platform 12 at Manchester Victoria station. Only a few have stayed still long enough to register on the negative. Manchester Victoria was the principal station on the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway system. Train services were particularly busy over the August Bank Holiday weekend when railway companies ran special excursion services. When this photograph was taken in 1927 the LYR lines had become part of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway and the tank locomotive passing through the station on the left carries the LMS livery. Note the sign urging passengers to have their "Tickets and Contracts Ready"—"Contracts" was how the LYR and some other companies referred to what are now known as season tickets.
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