Quotes About British Rail

By 1956, London Transport was recruiting in Barbados, even loaning migrants the costs of their passage to Britain. British Rail placed ads in the Barbados Labour Office and the NHS appealed to West Indian women to come to Britain and train to become nurses.

British Rail is some kind of joke, right? They just pretend to run a railroad? Is that right? Anyway

I can remember when you couldn't buy a British Rail sandwich without wondering if this was your last act before a long period on a life-support machine.

The train was nearly twenty minutes late, an excellent performance by British Rail standards.