Danby with thistledown

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Danby: unit No 156480 pauses at the pretty North Eastern Railway station on 27 October 2014. Paul Bigland

With meetings fixed up in the East Midlands one day and York the next, I have lodged in Nottingham for the night and begged a lift to Grantham for my run north. Rats, no Azuma, but the excellence of the refreshments served in the Mk 4 makes worthwhile the £6 premium I have paid for First Class on this trip of a tad over an hour. Set up by LNER’s smashing avocado with poached egg on muffin, I am off to interview Northern managers about progress on the Whitby line (p76).

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