Hot on the announcement of Britannia visiting, there was the announcement of Flying Scotsman arriving at the end of February. This is an excellent start to the year for the railway, and I am sure both visits will be a great success. But I am also in a way sad. for fourteen years I was …
Wednesday saw the dedicating of Rosemary’s bench on Platform 2 at Orton Mere Station. I am personally most upset that my health prevented me from attending. Here are a few pictures of the event, and my thanks to Paddy Knight for taking them. Rosemary’s step daughter and nephew sitting on the bench. Without doubt Rosemary …
This weekend sees the return of the travelling post office. In the past this has always been very popular with visitors. On both Saturday and Sunday it’s doing two runs to the equipment at Sutton Cross to give demonstrations of mail exchanges. Let’s hope it will be a regular occurrence. At one stage it did …
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