"Yokel" wrote in message
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And - as others have pointed out - severe as this spell of weather has
been, it is not as if winter weather like this has not been seen before.
One thing that has possibly changed is that our more "developed" society
(with its higher expectations and centralisation of vital services so we
have to travel more to shop and go to work and school) is more vulnerable
to the conditions. And in 1963 there were not the vast hordes going on
foreign holidays, etc to expose the performance of the airports - and, of
course, there was no "Eurostar"!

And there was only a very limited motorway netwok and far fewer cars
on the roads. The only comparable transport network was the railways,
how did they cope? I've certainly seen plenty of photos & footage of
trains being dug out of the snow in 62/63, massive snowdrifts across
lines, disruption must have been tremendous.
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Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl