Episode 13 - Railways. A look into the effect of transport on British food before the second world war, with cheap imports and distinctly urban cuisine like fish and chips eclipsing traditional rural foods. With railways gained access to the countryside as an amenity, and started moving into suburbs and dormatory villages. We also look briefly at railway toys and the decline of the rural rail links from the 1960s.

0:00 Intro
0:11 Cheap imports
1:45 Urban foods
2:33 The country as an amenity
4:12 Rural goods services
6:15 Toys
7:10 Decline

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