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Railways Blog
6 th Sep
I’d planned to take my two-year-old daughter out for a spin on the train on Saturday. The plan was 40145 from Peterborough to Cambridge where we’d meet my wife, have a family day and drive back, stopping to photo the 40 on the way back if the weather was ok. It didn’t happen. No sooner had [...]Author Focus: Colin Boocock
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Colin Bocock is a life-long railway enthusiast and an experienced railway engineer. His love for steam traction has extended from steam to modern forms as the railways developed and modernised. His very first railway photograph, of “Scotch Arthur” No 792 with a Lemaître exhaust taken in 1947, is the only one he has seen of that unique modifica ...
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