doreen foster worked at lner in peterborough in the 1940s. worked at lner in peterborough in the 19405n the 1940s. i love trains. of any kind. mostly steam trains, for grandad he was a driver. they used to go down to the loco shed, years ago. there was a job going at the lner savings bank, so i applied for it and got it. did you notice a real difference in the way things had run? pre—nationalisation and post—nationalisation once everything became british rail? it did not seem the same. it wasn't the family atmosphere. even within the standard perspective, would anyone want to turn the clock back to the times when british rail was known for jokes about it damages? no. we can't go back to the 1970s and i don't think we would want to. -- jokes about its sandwiches.” think we would want to. -- jokes about its sandwiches. i think we need to learn the lesson about the past and make something fit for the modern time. british rail was underinvested in. where does the money come from? we don't have to buy back the tracks, we already have national rail. the rolling stock would be pretty expensiv

charles swift spent his working life on the railways, based in peterborough.d at lner when he was 15 years old in 1945, three years before nationalisation. when it went from lner and it was run privately, internationalisation, did it feel differently straightaway? no, it had to work its way. for several years after, when we were first nationalised, we still had the same, then we started getting a different type of management in. people that started to tell you what you should be doing when they did not even know what the hell they were doing themselves. people then eventually wanted to get off the job. to be quite honest, i was quite happy to get away at the end of the day because there were not supervisors that had been railway drivers and things like that. you had someone coming from outside to do the job. people did get a bit peed—off with the red tape and things like that. there is still a romantic view of the glory days of railways, partly because it was a way of life for the 600,000 people who worked on them. doreen foster worked at lner in peterborough

wwe'll talk to ben ando who is by the ai near cambridgeshire near peterborough, and our transport correspondentt waterloo station in london. but first let's speak to phil bodmer who is in thornton—le—dale in north yorkshire. how are people getting their? it might look pretty but behind the picture postcard image there has been disruption on the edge of the north york moors overnight. they had six centimetres of snow on top of four centimetres lafell yesterday. they expect worse weather tonight. this is in an amber warning area. across yorkshire, more than 100 schools are closed with many more are expected to be shut tomorrow as well, as this snow sweeps in from the east and traverses the whole of the east and traverses the whole of the county. the whole of the north east affected, pretty much up to the scottish borders. leeds blackwood airport has been closed to flights because of too much snow on the runway, and as quick as they queried, more -n iii; ; a, . " where , iadhere we , where we are ‘on the ‘ on the. and this is the this is th london, is” ,, -:;;,, f: a" fi . between london, the north

against walsall did go ahead last night despite extraordinary scenes at london road, this video of peterboroughjunior mirallas grabbing some brooms and helping to clear their lines. the snow threatened to abandon a game they were winning and they eventually went on to win that 2-1. no they eventually went on to win that 2—1. no small part to them. and if you think it is just the 2—1. no small part to them. and if you think it isjust the uk... fernando alonso brave the elements to managejust fernando alonso brave the elements to manage just one lap fernando alonso brave the elements to managejust one lap before calling it a day. and the mercedes tea m calling it a day. and the mercedes team will be making use of their free time building their own snowman. free time building their own snowman. it became quite a hit on social media. never miss a chance for branding! a reminder that the big game tonight is at the home of football, wembley, rochdale taking on spurs in the replay. the pictures have deserted us! spurs have named their team, nine changes from the weekend, there we go. there hasn't been

anglia trains will also be affected, with reduced and slower services from ipswich, cambridge and peterborough be deadly for others. rough sleepers are particularly vulnerable. latest estimates in england suggest almost 5,000 people bedding down on the street on any given night. as the temperature drops, charities are urging us all to stay vigilant. we suggest the public do not walk on by, if they are concerned about the welfare of anyone sleeping rough, dial 999 if it is a medical emergency, or contact street link, to get in touch with that person to respond as quickly as possible. how bad could it get? the beast has already hit rome, causing the biggest snowfall in decades. schools are shot, public transport disrupted and flights delayed. the first time i have seen snow like this in years. this was chatham, in kent, today. britain has had the smallest taste of what is to come, but snow are gathering. legislation to cap poor value energy tariffs is being introduced in parliament today. the government says it will protect millions of customers from higher bills. but energy uk, which represents

peterborough got the 2-1 working as hard! peterborough got the 2—1win.han a football pitch! know what chance do rochdale have of knocking their opponents out of the fa cup tonight, tottenham? slim! tottenham are fourth in the premier league unbeaten in 15 games, rochdale are bottom of league 1. 63 places between them. but what a expericnce this will be for rochdale who have nothing to lose tonight, they will dare to dream. rochdale manager keith hill says his team must act "like a premier league side" in tonight's replay at wembley. the league one side scored late on to draw 2—2 with tottenham earlier this month. steve davies with the dramatic injury—time equaliser the winner of tonight's tie will play swansea who are into the quarter finals of the fa cup for the first time since 1964. 2—0 they beat sheffield wednesday in theirfifth round replay last night, that's nathan dyer with the second as swansea boss caros carvallyhal got one over the team who sacked him in december. —— carlos ca rvalhal. i'll be back with the headlines at 9.30 full first this mor

in a moment we'll talk to ben ando who is in peterborough.irst let's speak to alison freeman who is in newcastle. how are things there? been experiencing here in the north—east. north—east. been a huge amount of disruption as snow has fallen onto compacted ice. snow has fallen onto compacted ice. been affected suffering closures at one point or another. one point or another. travel unless you absolutely have too. too. cancelled from both durham and newcastle. newcastle. any more, they've had to be cancelled. cancelled. hundreds of schools have been shot as well. been shot as well. this has two sides to the story. sides to the story. up on their sledgers enjoying a bit of fun coming down the hillside. of fun coming down the hillside. police are saying please don't travel out to far. just come today. pretty grim across the north—east this morning. thank you. 0ur correspondent, ben ando is by the ai near peterborough. it changes almost by the minute, doesn't it? that's right. and sunny and we were starting to think what's all the fuss about. thi

that is a situation in north yorkshire, my colleague is on the a1 near peterborough.wy landscape is very beautiful but can also be very destructive, here on the a1 they have some real problems during the night. the snow was falling quite heavily and round about one o'clock in the morning and feel so deeply particularly here on the northern carriageway that vehicles travelling ground to a halt and there were several dozen vehicles that became stranded, and they were stranded for several hours, many of them having to be rescued overnight and into the early hours of the morning. in fact the roads you only reopened just an hour and the roads you only reopened just an hourand a the roads you only reopened just an hour and a half are so cool but as you can see now things are moving but there's not much traffic around. it may be that people have decided simply to make unnecessaryjourneys and decided to heed the warnings and avoid running the risk of getting bogged down in trouble. drivers were stranded on the m6 northbound as we heard, there were drivers in various areas par