Posted by peter Willis on January 21, 2010 at 22:35:24 user PeterWillis.
In Reply to: Re: Great British Railway Journeys posted by Peter Ceresole on January 19, 2010 at 14:58:53:
As a politician the one good thing he did was as transport minister to persuade Margaret Thatcher to save the Settle-Carlisle line, which must have taken some doing, given her views on railways. The programme in which he revisits it is a delight. Very emotional