Johnfromstaffs
Johnfromstaffs
"Miserable looking dirty black freight locos"
Oh yes, we had our fair share of them, dragging coal away from the Cannock Chase collieries, and I think Bescot had one piece of rag that was shared around the engine cleaners when HMQ or the divisional manager were about. There were also some rather weedy 2-6-2 tanks that struggled pulling 4 across the Chase to Walsall. There was an upside though, climb on your Triumph Palm Beach and buy a Mars bar and a bottle of pop and spend the day watching the West Coast Main Line at Elmhurst or Colwich Bridge and you got to see some sights, even the Deltic prototype in its blue and yellow days, and of course the chance of a City or a Duchess with 14 behind it. I have a picture somewhere of one of these with a train so long that it has had to pull forward at Stafford to allow access to the coaches at the back.
We went to Carlisle on a day trip behind the Duchess of Sutherland, most impressive and a proper railway breakfast and dinner, expensive, but what the heck. I'm a bit concerned to book at the moment, until the boffins come up with a vaccination for this awful pandemic, but at least I can potter about recalling the past.
Oh yes, we had our fair share of them, dragging coal away from the Cannock Chase collieries, and I think Bescot had one piece of rag that was shared around the engine cleaners when HMQ or the divisional manager were about. There were also some rather weedy 2-6-2 tanks that struggled pulling 4 across the Chase to Walsall. There was an upside though, climb on your Triumph Palm Beach and buy a Mars bar and a bottle of pop and spend the day watching the West Coast Main Line at Elmhurst or Colwich Bridge and you got to see some sights, even the Deltic prototype in its blue and yellow days, and of course the chance of a City or a Duchess with 14 behind it. I have a picture somewhere of one of these with a train so long that it has had to pull forward at Stafford to allow access to the coaches at the back.
We went to Carlisle on a day trip behind the Duchess of Sutherland, most impressive and a proper railway breakfast and dinner, expensive, but what the heck. I'm a bit concerned to book at the moment, until the boffins come up with a vaccination for this awful pandemic, but at least I can potter about recalling the past.