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Glowing with holiday anticipation, Britain's Prince Charles, 6, and his sister, Princess Anne, 4, with their pet Corgis waddling glumly beside them, entered Euston station to board a train that took them to Balmoral Castle in Scotland for Whitsuntide. At week's end, the royal children were caught at Balmoral by Britain's railway strike (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Back from Canada and the U.S., Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip docked in Liverpool, swung through an 80-minute tour of the city before taking the royal train to Euston station where Charles, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret were waiting to greet them. At the palace, patient crowds standing in a pelting rain demanded a sight of the travelers. After the traditional balcony appearance, the household settled down: Charles to inspect some more presents (among them an Indian suit and some fresh red apples from Canada), Elizabeth and Philip to enjoy one welcome day of rest and family life before...
...reason why they don't go to church is that they don't and can't believe what is taught there. Once people believed that they were going to heaven or hell in the same sense that they would get to Manchester if they started from Euston and to Brighton if they went from Victoria. Nothing can revive that belief. Once they believed that Christian principles had something to do with public conduct. But why should . . . anybody . .. expect people to go to church and listen with respect to a priest reading the Sermon on the Mount, when...
...echoing train shed behind the grimy Greek façade of London's Euston Station, Driver Ambrose Grant climbed into the cab of locomotive Number 5508. The bells of London joined the shrilling of train whistles to welcome a new year. Guard Arthur Smith switched his lamp from red to green, waved the "go ahead" to Driver Grant, and swung into the guard's van. At two minutes past midnight, Number 5508 chuffed out of the station for the run to Crewe. It pulled the first nationalized train to leave London...
...London's Euston and King's Cross Stations, clocks which have long been set a few minutes fast, to give suburbanite season-ticket-holders (commuters) a margin of safety, were suddenly set right. Commented the approving Manchester Guardian: ". . .A time addict . . . must either go on increasing the dose by putting his watch still farther forward or admit that his existing ration no longer produces the desired effect...