[Leica] Fwd: IMG: First Class on British Rail

[Marty Deveney]

The effects of rationing are clearly visible too.  Everyone looks
borderline malnourished by modern standards.

Marty

On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 11:34 AM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Just post war and everyone still dresses up for travel.  Just a bit
> different today.
>
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 5:46 AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
>
> > This didn't seem to hit the Lug. Another try. Douglas
> >
> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > Subject:        IMG: First Class on British Rail
> > Date:   Thu, 26 Nov 2020 01:21:43 +0000
> > From:   Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie>
> > To:     lug at leica-users.org <lug at leica-users.org>
> >
> >
> >
> > My mother on her honeymoon in July 1948 about to board a Great Western
> > train at Paddington Station en-route to Cornwall, England. She was 24 at
> > the time.
> >
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Mother+Paddington+Station+July+1948.jpg.html
> >
> > Taken with a Voigtlander Bessa by my father Louis Barry. Can be seen
> > larger.
> >
> > I still have the camera. On a railway nerd issue, at this stage British
> > Rail were just over six months old being the state vehicle that all of
> > the old railway companies in Britain were merged into. However, the
> > rolling stock had not been repainted, so it was still in the old colours
> > of the particular constituent company relevant to the particular region.
> >
> >
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