MOST of the Big Four’s flagship express locomotives were handsome beasts.
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Tag: Merchant Navy
Life in the Booking Office
Adam Carpenter shares his experiences of volunteering as a booking clerk and porter at the Epping Ongar Railway on the increasingly-popular Essex heritage line. My very first real railway memory involves heritage traction. In 1993,
Read moreTwo weeks on and the tills ring at Stoneleigh
Heading the line-up were nameplates from two Southern Railway Pacifics – Cunard White Star from Merchant Navy No. 35004 (£42,000) and Dorchester with the county town’s coat-of-arms from West Country No. 34042 (£38,000). Just two
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