A recent contribution to the letters page of Heritage
Railway magazine attracted my attention. It was written by John Dyer and
accompanied by two of his photographs of 0-4-0 saddle tanks with freight trains
at Birkenhead docks.
John was a few years older than us and was a leading light
in our school’s railway society, and therefore partly responsible for encouraging
our interest in railways. In more recent times he has kindly granted me access
to his photograph collection.
Though I remember the MD&HB system and saw it operating,
I did not have the foresight to take any pictures of it. That would have been
partly because they had their own numbering system, rather than BR numbers, so they
would not have been included in our abc of British Locomotives that we referred
to as the Combined Volume. It was so-called because it covered the same ground as
a series of smaller pocket books published by Ian Allan for the individual regions
of BR, but all within one binder.
[Photo with thanks to John Dyer]
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