Posted by PeterH on November 20, 2006 at 12:11:39 from 86.138.73.78 user Peter_H.
In Reply to: Re: Steaming in N Yorks (was Down the Thames posted by Owen Roberts on November 20, 2006 at 01:05:47:
joining the new outfit forthwith
No need to, Jock – you’re already in TRAINS. So is anyone who wishes to be.
Hurry, hurry, temporary link
I have now worked out how Jock put up a link to this image, rather than to the whole site – fiendish! I should have thought of that. In case Tony Richards has replaced the NYMR images now, a more leisurely look at 30926 can be taken at:
Wrong school? queries Owen. I had better explain that this preserved steam locomotive belongs to a class which were named after English public schools, and the one in Tony’s photo is Repton. I have no views on this – the name of the dump I went to does not grace the side of a railway engine, nor even a Birkenhead dustcart. Apologies for being off-topic, but at least No 30921 Shrewsbury was named after the school which it is generally agreed Dick went to.