- And on Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:39:33 +0000, it was spake thus in said in message John Hall :

I believe you are thinking of 1987 rather than 1982.

I know it was 82 as it was thankfully the winter before I joined the
railways !

I seem to recall most of the country grinding to a standstill and people
on a cross country HST complaining because it'd taken 18 hours to get
from Newcastle to Bristol.
The fact that it was the only transport to do anywhere near that sort of
distance didn't seem to matter, it'd taken much longer than the
timetable had said

Seem to recall something like -20 being reported in Oxford ?
I know, I bet I'm wrong !
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