Missing the station
Feb 3rd, 2012 | By Ian Poulton | Category: Personal ColumnsThere was a time when the train ran non-stop from Paddington to Taunton; hard now to imagine that there was once an express service from London to Somerset; hard to imagine Taunton station requiring a multiplicity of platforms. The train must have been long after that era, for it stopped at Castle Cary in east Somerset on its journey from the capital. It must have been winter time, for beyond the carriage windows there was darkness. Pulling out from the lights of Castle Cary, the British Rail diesel locomotive gathered …