The situation looks chaotic in this mid-Eighties dash for the Channel – but there are plenty of vehicles to keep classic car-spotters occupied

DUNSTABLE DOWNS, BEDFORDSHIRE

In the first of three helpings of nostalgia this week, we head to a Birmingham site that helped all these vehicles go. Or sometimes not go…

1M86, the 09.35 Glasgow Central-St Pancras, was the famous Up Thames Clyde Express and ran via the Glasgow Sou’ Western route, then the Settle and Carlisle line to Leeds, and then took the Midland Mai

The Midland Hotel’s fading splendour is the perfect backdrop for a trip down seaside memory lane

PART ONE