The bend widens out, and before me lies a toy train platform, built lifesized. I crunch up, moving from a path of gravel ballast onto sloping wooden planking. Before and behind me, the rails curve lazily away through the narrow valley, high escarpments on either side pressing inwards and making a sweaty day even closer. [...]
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British National Rail: 5 Ways To Make It Work For You
If you’re using the British rail system for the first time, or if you’re unaccustomed to doing so – you’re the rail network’s number one favourite customer. Why? Because you’re overpaying wildly. Train travel in this country is expensive enough to start with – the priciest in Europe. So it’s a tooth-loosening slap in the [...]
