Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you from Cambridge.
My name is Dan Schreiber, and please welcome to the stage is the regular elves,
Andy Murray, Anna Chazinski, and James Harkin.
And once again, we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order, here we go.
Starting with you, Andy Murray.
My fact this week is that before trains had corridors,
guards had to climb along the outside of the carriage to check your ticket.
That is so amazing.
And they did it while the train was moving, and this was a thing, this happened.
Carriages used to not be, you couldn't go through a carriage,
you would get in at one end, they'd close the door, they'd lock it,
you were locked in for the whole journey, and at the other end, they'd unlock it,
now you'd get, and it was just across the train instead of front to back through the train.
Were you locked in for health and safety reasons, required?
I think partly you were locked in, so you wouldn't try and sneak into first class.
Wow.
Yeah.
I don't think they were that bothered about health and safety, if you had a guy climbing on the outside of the carriage.