Royal Jubilee Jollies that are sadly no more
here are towns which I liked to call ‘frontier towns’ where the Great Western and the London & South Western met, and competed. There were quite a number of them as one travelled south and west from London – Brentford, Staines, Windsor and Reading, for starters. Windsor was my home town from 1973 until I moved to Northamptonshire when I joined in 1992, and as befits the ‘Royal Borough’ its WR and SR stations were both particularly fine. William Tite’s splendid stone and red brick station for the South Western Railway was opened in December 1849 on the meadows between the Thames and the
