No b****y FootprintsAs he walked along the platform towards the gathering of officers already in attendance, Norris found himself struck by an alien sensation, as though in walking from the daylight into the rather subterranean atmosphere of the station, he'd entered a new world, one with which he'd rapidly need to become familiar. His nose twitched as the smell he'd heard so much about rose to meet his nostrils. Without doubt, the combined odours of steam, soot, coal smoke and sulphur produced an all-pervading and unpleasant miasma that, Norris thought, could hardly be worth anyone taking the time and trouble to travel on the new-fangled transportation system. He'd never been tempted to try the underground railway, never having had need of it, and now, he felt even less inclined to sample
