Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London...
...Meeting with History." In London crowds trudged through a cold drizzle to Watch Night services at St. Paul's. Piccadilly Circus was crowded and almost as gay as ever. Britons felt in their bones that somehow 1948 would be better than 1947, but nobody promised them anything. The Manchester Guardian advised its readers to "expect a meeting with history some time this year...
...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...
...Competition. After soaring speculation came the crash; British railways settled down to healthy competition. In World War I competing railways had to cooperate, under national control. Then Britain's 123 lines were amalgamated into four great groups (the London, Midland & Scottish, the London & North Eastern, the Great Western, and the Southern). A mellow, golden age began for travelers on British trains. Unlike their U.S. counterpart, British railways have consistently made money from passengers, consequently gave them attentive service. British first-class compartments were among the most comfortable in the world. Dining cars offered deferential waiters, seats without queuing...
...green bus. They were a strangely assorted crew. India's press representative was a small neat man in a midnight blue Homburg and black canvas overshoes. Mexican Captain Soto Mc-Nerney was resplendent in a green hunting costume, with fur collar, from Manhattan's Abercrombie & Fitch. The London Times man, clad in street clothes and carrying a neatly rolled umbrella, looked as though he had just stepped off a train at Paddington station...