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World Service,28 Oct 1999,4 mins

Rail Travel by Steam Engine

My Century

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George Behrende made his first trip on the railways of Europe in the 1920s. He remembers the glorious days of steam with some nostalgia. "Ladies always wore hats in the dining car... You always wiped the silver with your table napkin before you started to get the smuts off."

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