Let's Imagine1961

[talking about a dilapidated and vandalised railway carriage that he finds in a siding at Highbridge]

John Betjeman:
Where did it go from, I wonder? Between Dawlish Warren, Starcross and Exeter, between Bourne End and Marlow, or Castle Bar Park Halt and Ealing Broadway, or was it on the Staines branch or the Uxbridge branch? And I wonder what city gents planned their holidays as they strap-hung and looked at these sepia photographs and wondered where to go. I can't tell you, because this car's now been smashed to bits since I was there. People hate anything well made, you know: it gives them a guilty conscience.