QUOTE (JeffG @ Jan 11 2012, 09:50 PM)
I thought it was called standard class these days, so people wouldn't get the impression there was anything second-rate about it?
Correct.
QUOTE (JeffG @ Jan 11 2012, 09:50 PM)
(I remember when there wasn't a second class at all - only first and third
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Goodness! - you must be getting on a bit?
(Perhaps not, apparently on further investigation the last 3rd class carriages ran in June 1956)