:31:10
Saw you snapping
away on the platform.
:31:13
Interested in trains,
are you?
:31:15
Not really.
:31:16
Just there's not much else
:31:17
to photograph around here.
:31:20
It's very fancy.
:31:24
Got it for my birthday.
:31:27
I retired today.
:31:31
They gave me
a whisky decanter.
:31:38
42 years
in the same company
:31:40
and nobody's noticed
I never drink.
:31:42
This is the last time
I'll ever make this journey.
:31:48
This used to be
a grand line, you know?
:31:51
Used to have ambitions.
:31:54
Do you know
there was a Pullman car
:31:55
right up until
Hitler's war started.
:31:57
It was called the Mayflower.
:32:01
It wasn't just ambition
:32:03
with the Victorians,
you see.
:32:05
There was confidence as well.
:32:07
Confidence in ambition.
:32:09
I mean,
can you imagine?
:32:10
They wanted to join
the Metropolitan Line up
:32:12
with Northampton
and Birmingham.
:32:14
Have a great link through
from Yorkshire and Lancashire
:32:16
through Quainton Road,
through London
:32:18
joining up
with the Old Southeastern
:32:19
and through
a channel tunnel
:32:22
to the Continent.
:32:24
Monumental.
:32:27
Is that when they started
calling it Metroland here?
:32:32
That bloody nonsense.
:32:34
No, that was
just a name made up
:32:35
to please the estate agents
during the war
:32:38
to please the estate agents
during the war
:32:38
before Hitler's.
:32:39
Catchy name
to make it sound cozy.
:32:42
Cozy homes for cozy heroes.
:32:44
25 minutes from Baker Street
:32:46
and a pension
at the end of the line.
:32:48
Turned it into
what it is now...
:32:51
bourgeois dormitory.
:32:57
Aren't you bourgeois, then?
:32:59
[ Chuckles ]