Inside the grand train shed at King's Cross, now a

totally different place to when I first visited in the mid-1970s. Then, the glazing was filthy allowing in very little natural light, the paintwork was peeling and the brickwork stained from years of steam-age pollution and Deltic exhaust! Today it's a smashing place and quite transformed from this earlier era. 180108 'William Shakespeare' waits to leave with the Grand Central 15.50 service to Bradford Interchange. The 13.05 from Leeds has arrived in the adjacent platform a few minutes earlier. However, an on-board fault caused the doors to shut too early on arrival trapping passengers who were a little slow disembarking and stopping the cleaning crew getting on the train. The train had to be moved forward a short distance and, as can be seen in this image, the doors reopened.