No thanks for the memory
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A Daily Telegraph reader has discovered that "funerals" is an anagram of ASLEF and NUR. The railway cemetery is where the Buckton will stop.
Pallbearers at the interment will include the construction aggregate industry, which has shelved plans to invest more than £1m in a scheme to transfer some 500,000 tonnes of traffic annually from road to rail. Quarry companies are, I suspect, already regretting heavy investment in rail sidings and wagons.
No flowers can be expected from Vauxhall Motors, which is to cease to deliver 40,000 vehicles a year by rail. Any expression of regret from the Post Office to British Railways Board is likely to be formal.
Mourners will be mainly railwaymen's wives, whose menfolk will expect them to continue to provide food and comfort.
The National Railway Museum, which is to be extended by taking over Fashionflow's York branch from National Carriers, may soon be able to spread its exhibits over 11,000 miles. Fashionflow, untroubled by industrial strife, has moved into new upmarket premises of about 15,500sqft on Millfield Trading Estate at Nether Poppleton.