On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:25:30 -0700, Tudor Hughes
wrote:

The time with steam trains was only 25 minutes longer
than the present one.

I wonder whether that is true of the run down to Portsmouth Harbour,
which in the days when I lived on the isle of Wight, always seemed
terribly slow.
These days I have to travel up to town from Dorset so I always take
the Yeovil Jct line, arriving early enough to take some tea at the
delightful station buffet
R