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All white on the night: 10 great British snow events

1991 The wrong kind of snow

hen James Naughtie interviewed British Rail's director of operations, Terry Worrall, for Radio 4 and asked him about the weather-related service disruptions, the latter admitted: ‘We are having particular problems with the type of snow.' Mr Naughtie's inimitable response was: ‘Oh, I see, it was the wrong kind

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