Tom Anderson wrote in message ...

Sadly, true.

Although:

http://www.garden.force9.co.uk/Lawn.htm

Hmm , I'm not sure how well dry grass in the summer would get on with
sparks off the 3rd and 4th rails!

Lucky nobody's told them about Richmond, Harrow & Wealdstone or
Harrow-on-the-Hill, then.

Those services are historical and we're set up long before the current
generation of bed wetters got into power. They'd never be allowed to be
set up today.

B2003