We explored the former goods shed adjacent to Whimple station with impunity on this quiet Saturday morning with the doors open and the gates to the yard having been removed! Inside the dark interior, we stumbled across this vintage paper notice stuck to the boarding. Posted by the British Transport Committee it lists the conditions of carriage that today would be referred to as Ts&Cs! The BTC was established as part of Nationalisation in 1948 being abolished in 1962 under the chairmanship of the infamous Dr. Richard Beeching.
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