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Editorial

Who goes where?

When drafting this editorial around the beginning of July, it came to the forefront of my mind that it was nigh on eighteen months since I’d made a journey on a main line train, a span of time not equalled since my age was reckoned in low single figures and my public transport experiences amounted to no more than being bundled on to a Bury Corporation bus. I couldn’t say when my first train journey was, nor conjure up any recollection of it, but it would undoubtedly have been on the electric train to Manchester.

The last occasion wasn’t anything particularly worth writing

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