Fenman trio

The terminus station at King's Lynn curves to the left, and until now I have never seen a photograph of a waiting train taken from the concave side -- so I can't tell you how excited I was to find this:

That was, of course, a glorious English Electric Co Class 37, waiting with a rake of Mk2 InterCity coaching stock sometime in the early 1980s (I'm guessing). Here's the much more common side view:

That one was a little earlier (the first carriage is a Mk1 rather than a Mk2), and you can clearly see the solution adopted for short platforms. King's Lynn only took 8 carriages while the InterCity trains always had 9: simple -- you leave the first one hanging over the edge. Health & Safety? Pah! People are smart enough to look before they open doors...

Let's finish a little further down the line:

Downham Market, mid-1980s, with an InterCity waiting to set off for the final stage of its journey from London's Liverpool Street to Lynn. That's a Class 31 at the head, in case you were wondering.

On reflection I'd say that was probably for specialist tastes, that post.