David Meara – A lifetime on the sleeper train

David Meara has been travelling on the sleeper trains from London to Scotland for over half a century.

In this Great Rail Tale, David recalls the joy, excitement and romance of pulling down your blind in a grubby, dirty terminus one evening and reopening it the following morning to the sight of heather clad Highland mountains, deer walking beside the line and peaty rivers racing the train along the track.

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