Cornish rangefinder

An excellent find, such papers will never be found otherwise. Have you seen a copy of the "The West Cornwall Railway" by S C Jenkins and R C Langley?

am I right in thinking that it took a whole day? and no second class either. a very interesting find, thanks for uploading!

Departure at 6.20am from Penzance, arrival at Paddington 6.50 pm, how times have changed ! And no buffet car, no corridors either.

This started me thinking about when toilets on trains were introduced.In early days there were always comfort and refreshment breaks, most notably the scrummages at Swindon tea rooms.I wonder what the equivalent of 26/- is now. Good long journey for your money but not good if your companions were like some of todays .No mobile 'phones or laptops then. Progress ???

A fascinating glimpse of the past. My father came back from India in 1928-9 and thought he knew how to invest money, having been a bank manager over there in Lloyds Foreign Service. From what I am told as the youngest of nine he reared once back in Britain, he invested a considerable sum in several things such as the Great Western Railway, in Gravel Pits (Now Thorpe Park, I'm told) and, as an accountant for the firm in Somerset, in Britain's equivalent of the German 'People's Car' whatever it was, and lost all his money doing so! One of my brothers ran a folk club in the sixties in what is now the Longboat but then the Railway Hotel, I think, and the club was called 'The Great Western Railway Folk Club'!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen, I can see the probem of the time, but best of all was that he had the fortitude to raise you all so obviously well.

http://www.measuringworth.com/ppoweruk/ , as to money and purchasing power, in relative terms, this has been my guide in recent years. Although I used to have a collection of reference data before the internet was available.