It looked quite good on one side of the loco as PE 1225. The left hand side was still as 44871 with the smoke box plate blacked out and the large headlight fitted. I was hoping it would note break down as this loco is doing so much at present.
But you were there at the original transition from steam Traction: but low & behold, as they say in another ritualistic retelling, later (+50) you saw an apparition that saw the reincarnate as the present!? As someone (more recently) wrote “stranger times” But, that is history for you…
Yes I was there to witness the transition although it happened early in Bath and I only took a casual interest as all steam disappeared by March 1966 (apart from SR scrap trains in 67/68). I was fortunate that my parents took me on holiday a couple of times up north so I did witness some steam close to the end in the north west. But as you gave pointed out, it does seem most strange and remarkable that there has been a second coming of mainline steam and it is wonderful to see locomotives back in their old appropriate London haunts.
Look at that 44871 is trying to act out as the polar express loco
It looked quite good on one side of the loco as PE 1225. The left hand side was still as 44871 with the smoke box plate blacked out and the large headlight fitted. I was hoping it would note break down as this loco is doing so much at present.
But you were there at the original transition from steam Traction: but low & behold, as they say in another ritualistic retelling, later (+50) you saw an apparition that saw the reincarnate as the present!?
As someone (more recently) wrote “stranger times”
But, that is history for you…
Yes I was there to witness the transition although it happened early in Bath and I only took a casual interest as all steam disappeared by March 1966 (apart from SR scrap trains in 67/68). I was fortunate that my parents took me on holiday a couple of times up north so I did witness some steam close to the end in the north west. But as you gave pointed out, it does seem most strange and remarkable that there has been a second coming of mainline steam and it is wonderful to see locomotives back in their old appropriate London haunts.