There are quite a few things on the railways which seem to have quietly disappeared over the years… comfortable seats, seats with leg-room for anbody over about 5ft 9in, luggage racks you can actually get luggage on, windows to look out of, carriages where you get peace free of automated announcements, trains that connect with each other, trains long enough to accommodate all the passengers in comfort without them having to be prised on board with crowbars, porters to carry your cases for a shilling... Whilst we might hope, wistfully rather than in expectation, that comfy seats aligned wth windows might return after a moment of light-bulb reinvention, one thing which almost certainly
