The war against something had its front line at Berwick station last night. Huttonian and the Wife were meeting a house guest off the 4pm from Kings Cross to the furtherest north. The passengers were locked into the train until the two waiting coppers had boarded Coach C to remove a suspect. Apparently he had refused to pay his fare when boarding at Newcastle and had abused the ticket inspector who had to retreat to Coach D until the fuzz arrived at the next station stop. That was GNER. The other house guest arriving on the three day multistop Virgin crawl from Plymout also reported police activity-two of them on the train for most of the journey. Perhaps they were on the wrong 'service' anticipating problems of non-payers at Newcastle but misread Virgin for GNER. Or perhaps they were being rewarded for long and faithfull policery with a free roamer ticket to see something of the known world outside Devon.

If they were not eligible for pensions by the time they left Plymouth they would certainly be entitled to threm (plus the Long Service Police Medal) by the time they got to Edinburgh, never mind Berwick.  ¶ 12:23 PM