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When cancelling a train, particularly a long-distance train, was a fairly unusual occurrence other than in connection with planned engineering or industrial action.

Occasionally characterisations of that era could be said to have been anachronistic even then. One that comes to mind was Jack Warner continuing to portray the television character of police sergeant George Dixon of Dock Green police station up until the actor was 81 years old and long after the...

These things tend to come and go. 40+ years ago National Express introduced an animated frog-character called Beeper to front its marketing notably the "Beeper's Cheaper" campaign when deregulation of long-distance coach services enabled companies like National Express to seriously undercut BR...

Anyone remember a pianist called "Mrs Mills"? Apart from the anachronism of the masses nowadays being entertained by a piano player, even in her day it seemed unusual for a household name to feature a Mr or Mrs and no first name. Mrs Mills was a contemporary of the cooking expert Fanny Craddock...

Excellent observations.

Something which has greatly declined in popularity and which some would regard as anachronistic is self sufficiency in producing "home made" food products. Perhaps with the assistance of well-thumbed pre-WW2 recipe books. An example would be growing copious amounts of rhubarb and using it to...

And the (albeit very safe) Euston station was closed to additional users for a time due to being full and standing.

Getting your tonsils plus adenoids whipped out at the same time as a youngster at the first sign of tonsil trouble is less common these days.

Perhaps the expression "housewife". Female house occupant scrubbing the front step every week possibly with "Vim" or similar scouring powder. Really house-proud folk used to put a kind of coloured wax on their step. Blue or red. Then buff it up. Not us. Same one's whose daughters went to violin...

And lapdancers/poledancers at relatively inauspicious establishments.

A very worthwhile stash especially if someone is keen to determine their family history/compile a family tree at some point.

Hoarding of every mortal piece of paperwork that passes through a person's hands for decades. Includes obsolete receipts, instructions and guarantees for long discarded household items. Sometimes filed/stored meticulously - sometimes not. Some who have had the sad duty of having to go through a...

BR Area Managers wearing their bowler hats on special occasions. Station Masters at most stations. Visible Station Managers at large stations with a carnation or similar in their buttonhole.

Watching it. Can't say I was too bothered about transport authenticity, (though they did floor me when the runaway train opened a free bar). Quite gripping though which is what 'real-time drama' is supposed to provide.

"Demanda Milanda".

Coal delivery lorries. Chimney sweeps.

Hopefully in the wake of the Edwards case the BBC will at last recognise the need not to venerate specific employees to the degree which it has done over past years.

Surely this rare example of possible erring on the side of passengers is something to applaud?

Not disappeared but less common - milestones and finger-post signposts?