In the quite months before and after Christmas British Rail used to offer very cheap flat fares to Senior Citizen Railcard holders. It was also possible for card holders to take accompanying children for £1. My Grandad who liked seeing different parts of the country by train made great use of these and we went off to new places where we would normally not be able to afford to by train. This offer ran in November 1982 so we were off to a different part of the country each week.

 

A couple of highlights from these trips were 50006 between Oxford and Birmingham New St and being shown around the shed of the Devil's Bridge railway in Aberystwyth and a guided tour of 25044.

 

Saturday 06/11/1982
Blackburn - Preston
Preston - London Euston
London Waterloo - Clapham Jn
Clapham Jn - Reading
Reading - Didcot - Coventry
Birmingham New St - Preston - Lancaster
Saturday 13/11/1982
Lancaster - Carlilse - Carstairs
Carstairs - Edinburgh
Edinburgh - Markinch - Dundee
Dundee - Perth - Glasgow Queen St
Glasgow Central - Lancaster
Saturday 20/11/1982
Lancaster - Leeds	25182
Leeds - Sheffield - Derby - Birmingham N St -
Gloucester - Bristol TM
Bristol TM - Bath Spa - Swindon - Didcot
Didcot - Oxford	DMU
Oxford - Coventry	50006
Birmingham N St - Lancaster
Saturday 27/11/1982
Lancaster - Crewe
Crewe - Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury - Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth - Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury - Crewe
Crewe - Lancaster