Goodness - we are honoured. Walked past your old school the other day -
that is some government school mate!
AndrewF
On 18/08/2004, at 7:33 PM, Roger D. Key wrote:
>
> When I was at school at Dulwich College in London I used to watch a
> double-headed wagon-lits Night Ferry from Paris to London pass by the
> school grounds every morning, and later each day the Golden Arrow
> Pullman
> Express from London to Paris. All drawn by fine steam locomotives! I
> would
> have loved to have had an OM camera then, but most train photos were
> made
> with Speed Graphics and the like (way beyond my puny financial means).
> On
> the way home by electric train I liked to rush on to the footbridge
> crossing the tracks if a steam train came by, so that I could breath
> in the
> lovely sulphurous fumes....
>
> Roger Key
>
>
>
> Chris wrote:
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>
> Oh all right, you're right ;-)
>
> I used to travel to school (boarding school) in a steam train, from
> Paddington (London) to Bath (Somerset); I used to watch with delight as
> we entered tunnels and all the smoke and steam billowed back down the
> train!
>
> When I lived in India, most of the trains were still steam.
>
> But the diesels in some of the locomotives, Napier Deltics, were
> wonderful workhorses ...
>
> Chris
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