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being still very small had now gone to Lincolnshire with mother
and father.
At school holiday time I would be despatched on a train in
the care of the guard and eventually ended up at Boston Station.
I enjoyed these trips immensely. Every schoolboy’s dream at
that time was train spotting, recording sightings of real
locomotives, with steam and smoke and that unforgettable smell
of something alive. The Ian Allen train spotting books were more
important than a bible to a young boy in the early 1950’s.
That train always had an extended stop in Doncaster,
probably the largest goods yard in the country. Everywhere you
looked there were engines of every size from the humble tank
engine to the biggest main line locomotives.
In my usual place in the guards van, I had a privileged view!
Picture here shows me in
1950 with typically mucky knees.......they haven’t changed!
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