Tuesday, 21 March 2017

April 1970 at the Severn Valley Railway


The embryonic heritage railways were very different then. It’s amazing to think that we have been going there at fairly regular intervals for getting on for fifty years now. The relaxed attitude to visitors wandering over the tracks while steam locomotives were operating has disappeared into the past, with the spread of health and safety legislation. Who would have thought that this young man with his hands in his pockets would end up being entrusted with the lining out of these same carriages today?

Scenes at Bridgnorth in April 1970 of Ivatt Class 2 2-6-0 No. 43106 and 2251 Class No. 3205.

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