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Spilling deplore the interruption to the Queen's sleep. It said that the monarch and her family needed long periods of rest, and they had been accustomed to a regular eight hours' sleep a night since 1919.
Mr Sid Weighell later attacked the drivers' union, saying that he had been planning to meet the Queen himself later this year. "It is an outrage that members of an insignificant railway union should put my knighthood at risk.
Mrs Thatcher was attacked in the Commons by Mr Roy Hattersley, opposition spokesman, who said that no train driver had ever sat on the Queen's bed while a Labour government was in power, and that Labour governments had a much better record than the Tories of protecting and preserving such institutions as the Royal Family.
Mrs Thatcher rejected the allegations and told MPs that the Canberra would be requisitioned to take busi nessmen up the Thames to the City every morning, and that a special re-fit was being ordered to make sure that there were enough bars on board.
Meanwhile today British Rail said that 100% more train drivers had returned to work after an intensive campaign to persuade them of the management's case. This brought the numbers working up from one to two.
One train travelled today on its regular route around a funfair. It was fully loaded with TV crews and reporters who had waited all day for a ride. The train left the station two hours late as the driver posed for photographs and discussed contracts for his memoirs with the Sun. He said later that he had to return to work, because where else could he make £30.000 a week for a one hour day. His train was met by Mrs Thatcher who had hurried from the Commons. and the driver was later made an honorary member of the Parachute Regiment.