We took a ride behind Class A4 Pacific No. 60009 Union of
South Africa. I seem to remember that she caused a lineside fire near Northwood
Halt, while we were there.
I also photographed ex-LNER Class K4 2-6-0 No. 3442 The
Great Marquess leaving Bridgnorth, shortly before she was repainted in BR black,
as No. 61994. I could not have imagined for a second then that she would become
the first active steam locomotive that I would introduce to my first two
grandchildren - on the North York Moors Railway, nearly twenty years later.
What a lovely engine to start them off with. A combined
volume abc of British locomotives should fit just nicely into a two-year-old’s
Christmas stocking.
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