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Daily Record
Daily Record
National
Martin Elvery & Sean Murphy

The forgotten Scottish train that took you and your car all the way to London so you didn't have to do the long drive

Though we are more used to driving holidays featuring ferries and sea journeys, there was once a service in Scotland that actually saw family cars being driven onto trains for trips away.

In the days before the extended Motorway network made the country even more accessible to cars, it wouldn't be strange to see families drive their cars up ramps onto special carriages before they boarded the train themselves and headed off to London for a fun trip.

The convenient service not only saved on petrol, it also meant travellers didn't have to clock up over 400 miles in travel time on the roads to start their holidays off.

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