Simply first class accommodation |
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| I've always had a
sneaking desire to live in a railway carriage. There are a few people
who do live in carriages, but there is a village close to Bognor Regis
where a whole community of railway people live in carriages blended in
with other buildings.
After the first world war much of the local railway stock was regarded as out-of-date and was pensioned off in the siding at Bognor. Some people started living in the carriages, and then some were moved down the road to Pagham. They were transported by horse and waggon, and had their wheels and bogie sets removed first. |
By the middle of the
1930s there were almost 250 properties at the beach in Pagham, and most
of them had begun life as railway carriages.
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During the second
world war the place was taken over by the army, who did a certain
amount of damage, and, indeed, some of the carriages were broken up and
used for firewood to keep the troops warm......
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