Now like many of my generation I have always had a fascination for railways and really for the time when they were given over to steam locomotives.*
Even now that heady smell of steam, warm oil and smoke take me back to standing on platforms waiting for a train.
It was a love for all things steam that I shared with my father who could never quite accept that the old L.M.S and L.N.E.R had become a division of British Railways.
That said mother had a less romantic take on steam trains pointing out that if you lived close to a railway line the washing dried with smudges of soot from passing locomotives.
Despite that jaundiced view I shall be going to the talk with Chorlton History Group on "The Lost Railways of South Manchester" by Roy Chapman which will at 1.30pm today in the St Ninian's Church, Egerton Road South,
“A lifelong railway enthusiast, Roy has contributed to transport
training material, is a co-author of three railway books, has contributed to a number of reports on transport issues, and is an occasional writer of journal articles on transport and business management.
Roy is currently Rail Services Planning Officer at Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM).
In the talk he will focus on the growth and decline of the railway network around South Manchester.”
Bernard Leach
Picture; Chorlton Railway Station looking east, date unknown, from the collection of Tony Walker
*Chorlton Trains, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Chorlton%20Trains
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| Chorlton Railway Station, early 20th century |
It was a love for all things steam that I shared with my father who could never quite accept that the old L.M.S and L.N.E.R had become a division of British Railways.
That said mother had a less romantic take on steam trains pointing out that if you lived close to a railway line the washing dried with smudges of soot from passing locomotives.
Despite that jaundiced view I shall be going to the talk with Chorlton History Group on "The Lost Railways of South Manchester" by Roy Chapman which will at 1.30pm today in the St Ninian's Church, Egerton Road South,
“A lifelong railway enthusiast, Roy has contributed to transport
training material, is a co-author of three railway books, has contributed to a number of reports on transport issues, and is an occasional writer of journal articles on transport and business management.
Roy is currently Rail Services Planning Officer at Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM).
In the talk he will focus on the growth and decline of the railway network around South Manchester.”
Bernard Leach
Picture; Chorlton Railway Station looking east, date unknown, from the collection of Tony Walker
*Chorlton Trains, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Chorlton%20Trains
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