My earliest memories of steam trains was when I was about 5 or 6 when, on a sunday afternoon, my step great grandfather, who was a driver at Immingham Loco, would take me round to see the engines. We moved to Essex in 1948 but I regularly travelled back to Grimsby in the school holidays using the 4 pm ex Kings Cross and 9am return from Grimsby, boarding the train at Grimsby Docks Station, the train reversed at Town station and on one notable occasion the train was hauled from Docks to Town behind tender first GCR director 62666 Zeebrugge to be taken on to Kings Cross by the usual B1.

We moved on to Watford in Hertfordshire in 1955 so I then had a diet of ex LMS Duchesses, Scots and Jubilees. more notable at this period was Beyer-Garratt no 47994 in the small Watford shed yard one day and also L & Y 0-8-0 49508 passed through one evening, nobody believed me! but it was later reported in Trains Illustrated.

We moved onto Hampshire, near Portsmouth in 1959 but after a short period, interest waned due to other distractions but was reawakened in the 70's when on a business visit to Durham I called in to the North York Moors Railway and was very impressed . I then started visiting our local Mid Hants Railway .

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Photos changed on 12.11.98.

I took some photographs, some Black and White from the late fifties and early sixties, the quality of which is not brilliant and also some Colour photos taken since 1970 of Preserved steam and some diesel click on links below.

Black and White Photos

Colour Photos

For those interested in Railway Simulation programs on the PC (and Amiga) contact Siam especially if you want something mind boggling and thoroughly authentic try their Steam Age simulations - Lincoln 1952- particularly comes to mind! You can download demos from them.

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