Every time we travel along the M6 I notice the turn for Carnforth and say,’ We should go and have a look at the station.’ Finally we did! The main reason for going is of course the central role that the station buffet played in the film, ‘Brief Encounter,’ but also because the film’s themes of love and loss chime with those in my latest historical novel, ‘Had we never loved so blindly,’.The volunteers who organise the displays have used fittings from the old station which capture a convincing 1940s ambience.
