Re: We all traipse into the office for that critical meeting that HAS to be face-to-face..
"Icon: can remember corridor trains like on A Hard Day's Night"
Corridor trains! You posh so-and-so.
I had to put up with the non-corridor slam door class 312 for many years when working in banking IT in central Londinium.
http://www.geocities.ws/jamesstearn/trainstoday/312gallery_A_.html
I swear the seats were stuffed with horse hair and coiled steel springs.
One trip took over 3.5 hours to get home from Liverpool St (normally takes 35 minutes) after the one I was on brought down the overhead wires with a BANG!