Southern Steam - The Westerham Branch [2 of 3]

[AustinSomerset]

I remember that within a few months of it's opening - there was an accident on the M26 branch of the M25. The tailbacks were horrendous - despite the fact that that same traffic had been using the A roads just a little while before. It proved to me as a teenager that roads just bred traffic - Something it took the experts another twenty years to recognise.

[061369317]

@AustinSomerset True enough, however, it's individual car availability which is the main culprit.

Ban individual cars, don't improve roads, and people shall live happily near the collective

farm or state factory they work in.

Also, just think of the charm of life before railways brought thousands in ever more crowded and polluted cities, when horses were the best transport mean...Is it me, or too many rail fans only like progress until it makes their preferred toy (the steam engine) obsolete ?

[AustinSomerset]

@061369317 Oh yes. The rise of the "Never Never"! :) I remember the hushed voices that surrounded the talk of our neighbours trading in their Mk II Ford Consul for a shiny new Datsun Sunny 120Y and paying for it ....... in....... gasp! .....Installments!!!! Now you can practically get cars free with packets of Corn Flakes such is the ease of their affordability!

[mtjharman]

Priceless !