The train would have been pleasanter, though Huddersfield station is vastly more impressive from the outside. In those days, it was still possible, I imagine, to reach Reddish with a change at Stalybridge. Meanwhile at about the same time I was heading from Manchester Victoria to Brighouse, with a change at Sowerby Bridge or latterly from Manchester Exchange to Huddersfield,direct.
Two things puzzle me about this account. The first is that I would never have thought that Sowerby Bridge, for all its undoubted virtues, was the sort of place where it was possible to change trains. The second is the notion of a direct train from Sowerby Bridge to Brighouse. Where did the train begin and end its journey, or was it, as I strongly suspect, a special laid on for the sole convenience of JCFC?