Once again stations were busy places, before the car.
The blog of a retired marine engineer who is old enough to remember the steam era and the joys of holiday trips in trains hauled by steam engines. Please feel free to comment or contact me on teachertalk1234@yahoo.co.uk. The blog is updated daily so please look back or follow regularly so as not to miss information and pictures
Sunday, 22 January 2012
Monday, 16 January 2012
Bradford Exchange the old station from within
The concourse housed the buffet and booking hall and a few other now forgotten treasures
Those old roller signs which told us of which trains departed from this or that platform
That magnificent roof worthy of the capital of wool 'Worsteadopolis'
Bradford Exchange old and new
Back in the early seventies the old station was demolished and a new one situated to the south west of the old one. It was modern and comfortable and shared land with the bus station which of course made life a lot easier but it never had the character of the old station
Bradford Exchange during demolition
The new Bradford Exchnge
Sunday, 8 January 2012
At just over 120 years old the LNWR Coal Tank is back. After a complete heavy rebuild by the custodians, the Bahamas society, it is back in steam. It is the oldest working locomotive in the national collection. Much work on the boiler including new side sheets and a complete new cylinder block replacing the cracked one. Should be in stem at the Feb steam festival at Keighley Worth Valley, then out to tour the country on various preserved lines.
My thanks to Geoff Cryer for this picture of the coal tank in time past
Friday, 6 January 2012
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