>> Always went to Margate by train,
My father was a train driver. He had things called "privies", a privilege ticket system for the family, wasn't free but it was cheap. The only time trains were used was to go and visit family left in the East End, Trains were never used for holidays.
Except for one notable exception. A holiday in Guernsey. 1964 I think.
Much "privies" were saved up for a trip to Weymouth on the boat train, which then proceeded through the streets of Weymouth on the dock tramway and stopped alongside Sealink Ferry SS Sarnia. Two weeks then spent in a holiday chalet where the union - ASLEF - had a cheap deal going. The weather was great, the beaches were superb, and the remains of the German defences had not been sanitised or removed, a 10 year old boys exploring heaven.
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