The countryside Tube stops that disappeared off the map

• The distinctive blue-and-white livery of a late-period nationalised British Rail train can do funny things to a person. Memories of ripped seats, curled sandwiches and incessant delays are one reaction, of course. But for me, whose visions of that far-off era of entirely state-owned trains in this country have been gleaned from archive television, I prefer to think of John Cleese leaving his written speech on one by accident, setting chaos underway in the underrated 1986 movie Clockwise. Or of T