The date is 7/7/77 and commuters line up at Colchester for the arrival of the 08.11 Clacton/Walton to Liverpool Street service. Their journey will have been relatively stress free, because none of them has portable music, mobile phones, laptops, tablets, games and incoming messages requiring attention. There will, however, have been a fair amount of newspaper rustling, card playing, unwanted conversations with bored strangers and, of course, smoking.
Location: Colchester
Original line: Eastern Counties Railway
Photographer: Mark Dufton
Contact photographer: Mark Dufton
Date: 07/07/1977
Image number: 48419