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. . . The Bletchley Station Hotel is a comparatively small one, but situated at the junction of the Oxford and Cambridge line it is a convenient centre for people visiting the University towns, besides which it enjoys a certain measure of popularity as a place for lunching during the hunting season'.
. . . The Coffee Tavern consisted of a large, pleasant room with plenty of facilities for preparing temperance beverages and a room for meetings at the back. There was a recreation room upstairs for meetings and tables for games of dominoes or chess . . . the tavern was decorated with moral and religious mottoes such as 'Lessened drink brings double bread', or 'As Ye sow so shall Ye reap'. One small vice, a smoking room was allowed.
. . . At the small stations the Station Master was generally dressed in his dignified, gold braided, peaked cap, or the full dignity of a bowler hat. A fly collar and a fresh flower in the buttonhole completed the image.
. . . During the war years a passenger train ran daily, including Sunday, between Bletchley and Bedford; it was strictly a wartime train and was appropriately nicknamed 'The Whitehall'. Although it was in the working timetable it was mainly for the staff at Bletchley Park. . . . In the evening 'The Whitehall' would return with its passengers to Bedford.
