I had to travel back home during this morning and as the train came in I was rather disappointed to see how old it looked, tatty at the edges, and definitely not as nice as the much newer trains that I usual travel on at the end of the afternoon.

But as I was about to get on, I noticed this towards the end of the carriage that had stopped in front of me, so I took a quick snap.

It confirms that the carriage was over 20 years old, hence the appearance, but it also showed that I was about to get inside a piece of history! The first British passengers were carried through the Channel Tunnel in this, back in December 1993. I suppose it would have been a state of the art unit back then, worthy of being shown off on such a prestigious occasion. Sadly now it’s just rather worn out. But it worked, and kept to time, so I mustn’t complain!