For British Rail, the 1970s was a time of contrasts, when bad jokes
about sandwiches and pork pies often belied real achievements, like
increasing computerisation and the arrival of the high-speed
Inter-City 125s. But while television advertisements told of an
'Age of the Train', Monday morning misery continued for many, the
commuter experience steadily worsening as rolling stock aged and
grew ever more uncomfortable. Even when BR launched new
electrification schemes and new suburban trains in the 1980s, focus
still fell on the problems that beset the Advanced Passenger Train,
whose ignominious end came under full media glare. In British
Railways in the 1970s and '80s, Greg Morse guides us through a
world of Traveller's Fare, concrete concourses and peak-capped
porters, a difficult period that began with the aftershock of
Beeching but ended with BR becoming the first nationalised
passenger network in the world to make a profit.
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