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Old 31-08-2006, 10:04 AM
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Re: Cycling, public transport and a family of 7!!

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Originally Posted by Tormentil
'Tis indeed a fault of modern trains. There was a time, many many moons ago, when all trains had a parcel van attached, which would accomodate a bicycle. I think you paid a few pennies more for taking yer bike on.
Latterly (until the late 1980s) it was free. Of course in those days most mail and a large amount of parcels traffic went by passenger train and justified the "parcels" van.
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