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Leaving the Station Winter Naismith devised the game ofA train bound for Edinburgh, Scotland, creeps out of King's Cross station in London in December 1952. Though the locomotive appears to be departing at twilight, it's actually in the early afternoon, but London is shrouded in fog from a devastating stretch of brutal winter weather. "Winter has come early, freakishly and violently, to Britain and Europe this year," The Times Magazine wrote on December 21, 1952. "London's recent four days of stifling