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...grand Irish Mail chugging from Holyhead on the shores of the choppy Irish Sea. At 3 a.m. it was the glamorous, slightly mysterious Night Scot, running up past the misty green Lake District to salty Glasgow on the Clyde. In the evening it was the Comet from Manchester, pulling through the yards and spitting scornful clouds of steam. As the years and the big trains rolled by, Harley's dream that he would run one some day went up in the sooty smoke of Crewe. His passion for the glorious trains rotted away into consuming hatred...
What happened to general transportation was far worse. The "Irish Mail" from Holyhead was announced as "still on its way" 24 hours after the train was due at Waterloo Station. LONDON TRAINS MISSING, SCOTTISH TRAINS LOST screamed newspaper headlines. At Euston Station three trains from the north failed to turn up for more than a day. Two main lines to Scotland did not function for days. Viscount Home, chairman of Great Westtern Railway, and 300 other passengers spent two days and a night in cold, bedless coaches. Up in Scotland 400 travelers were stranded at isolated Crawford, on Beattock Moor...