Well kids, I can remember getting on a train hauled by steam engine from the middle platform when I was a small child.

I was also very familiar with the quite large goods yards and sidings at FH.
Used to collect bags of coal from there in winter in a pram

I now live alongside the main railway line to Cornwall; recently I bought two books from a bookseller in Penzance, once, the bookseller would have sent them by the train guard and I could collect them from my local station 4hrs later.

Sent express by one of our 2016 services they arrived chez moi 3days later.
such is progress.

BR Red Star service worked quite well until a few years ago, now you can't get a bike sent on ahead; a friend of mine who lived in Scotland would buy a motorcycle from Pride and Clarke in Stockwell, and it would be sent by train to him, and he'd collect from his local station.

Modern life is so convienient, now I can get carrots delivered to my door via my computer, that saves me going into the garden to pull some up.