A New Year’s story of goodwill and a kind Samaritan

Since New Year is supposed to be all about goodwill and being nice to others, it seemed appropriate to include this story which also proves that despite all our misgivings, British Rail were sometimes very nice.

The full story can be found on the BBC good samaritan page here but in essence it involves a student back in 1982 who later became a writer trying to get from London to to his mother in Leeds before she died, trains that simply shouldn’t be able to connect and how one kind hearted ticket inspector on a British Rail train made the seemingly impossible, possible.