24-03-2022, 09:32 AM
Those of us old enough to remember the Eagle comic may well recall the marvellous "cut-away" drawings of technological wonders... one that sticks in my mind from 1958/9 or so was of a "containerised" port and transport system which incorporated containers unloaded from ships straight onto rail bogies eventually ending up (having been centrally opened and distributed) on British Road Services for rural and Scammel Scarabs for urban deliveries from the nearby railway station...a brilliant projection for transport planning which was working but went for naught following the massive drive towards road building and the deliberate destruction of the rail network.
Eeh, nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Eeh, nostalgia isn't what it used to be.