Oops, Missed It!

Luckily, Chris did much better with a panning shot on her phone. This is Salfords, in Surrey, and the Black Five was on its way to the south coast with a dining train from London Victoria on Tuesday 26 November. It sounded - and looked - as though she was going very well. I thought that I had already taken two pictures before this one, but it seems that I had not pressed the shutter right down on either occasion. Call yerself a photographer? Not really. And anyway, its a fairly new camera....and it was raining - quite heavily, actually.... 

Takes yer back

The one advantage of the “Multies” [DMUs] was that you could see the numbers on approaching steam locomotives from the comfort of your seat, instead of having to stick your head out of the window. So, it was in the sixties between Birkenhead Woodside and Chester General, as well as New Brighton to Chester Northgate and Wrexham. This reminder was at the Great Central Railway’s “Last Hurrah” of the season on Sunday.

Seacombe station

These shots of Ivatt Class 2 2-6-2 tank No. 41231 were taken by John Dyer in October 1958. The train is destined for Wrexham Exchange. I can’t remember going to Seacombe station, but in 1957/8 I attended Poulton Junior School, where the line ran through a cutting [now occupied by the tunnel approach road] at the foot of the playground. Mum also allowed me a brief occasional detour on our way home to visit Poulton station in Mill Lane.