Honeymoon Special
"NOBODY could accuse the nationalised British Railways of being soulless and heartless-at least not after what happened the other day. They’ve got a new express running from Newcastle to King’s Cross, here in London. The headplate of the locomotive was unveiled by Esther MacCracken, the Tyneside playwright who wrote the famous box-office success Quiet Wedding -a title now borne by the engine-the train’s now known as Honeymoon Special. Just to round off the job and show that even nationalised ‘railwaymen can be just as romantic and sentimental as anybody else, the train conductor was told on the trial trip to look out for honeymoon couples and give them the privacy of a coupe-one of those small, separate compartments you find on some British trains.’-Robert Reid in the BBC programme "In Britain To-day."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 500, 21 January 1949, Page 16
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134Honeymoon Special New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 500, 21 January 1949, Page 16
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