Reading on Trains Number 21: The Weirdness of Luggage, Part 2

In the 1940s there were about fifty thousand porters on British railways. Today there are, I think, none, although it’s risky to make any such clean and quick statement about our fragmented modern railway, which has created a nitpicker’s charter. (See the various railway forums.)

When Great North Eastern Railway operated the East Coast Main Line, they br…