Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on January 05, 2008 at 08:22:22 from 82.27.24.87 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Re: Better to travel hopefully posted by Owen Roberts on January 05, 2008 at 23:10:19:
The jouney via Warrington will involve the almost universal change at Oxenholme
Travelling either way today would involve changing at Oxenholme, giving advantage to the through carriages of the 30s.
However the cross country journey today involves no changing except Warrington and across the platform at Norwich - the train is the through Liverpool - Norwich.
The amount of luggage they had been instructed to bring - "They're dumping stuff into the boat...There goes another bag...And what's in that long bundle..." (SW) - would have surely required a taxi, either at Warrington or across London, and again the 1930s have the advantage of availability of porters. Going as they did through London it would have been a struggle, too, to get all that gear from the down platform at Ipswich over the footbridge to the station exit without porter help.