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  • Backtrack

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    Jul 15, 2021 3 minutes

    Summer Saturdays to the coast

    Articles appearing in Backtrack have the wonderful effect of reviving long-lost memories of past rail travel – the article on ‘Summer Holidays to the Coast’ being a case in point.

    My grandchildren could not believe me when I told them the following tale. Our family lived about a mile way from Welling station in South East London, whence my father commuted daily to London. We regularly took our holidays either in Swanage or on the Isle of Wight. Money being tight after World War I, we stayed on a quite basic

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