Dinner -Speaker Jim Dorward – Waterloo – Britain’s busiest railway station – guest of Alistair Fernie
Wed, May 10th 2017 at 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Alistair Fernie introduced Jim Dorward who had regaled us previously on more than one occasion with his intimate knowledge of Britain's railways. Jim’s topic this year was “Waterloo – Britain’s busiest railway station” - 100 million passenger movements a year. The major part of a very complex £800 million project to increase the capacity of the services using Waterloo by 30% is ongoing and will be completed in August with final testing over the Bank holiday weekend. As an aside, Jim mentioned that funeral trains ran daily from Waterloo to Brookwood, near Woking until 1941. This led to Woking having the country's first crematorium. After many questions, Peter gave his Vote of Thanks and invited Jim to come back next year!
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