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Favourite Locomotive??? Have
you ever thought about your
favourite locomotive. For a long
time, I think it was Jubilees
which thundered through Huyton
Station at 3.45pm, a few minutes
after Rupert Road Junior school
disgorged some 300 children into
the world again.
For my
friends and I, it meant the
charge up Poplar Bank to the
station. We would try to get onto
the Island platform without being
intercepted by "Eggy
Joe", a miserable porter!
Then the home signal and distance
signal would announce the
thunderous passing of the Lime
Street to Newcastle Express.
Mission completed!
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so I thought! Every summer, we
left Liverpool for a week in
Ipswich seeing my Mum's half of
the family. We would leave
Liverpool Central on the 1.15pm
Harwich Boat Train ready for some
seven hours plus travelling.As
most of my trainspotting was LMR
around Liverpool and Wigan, we
were all of sudden entering
Sheffield Victoria staion behind
a Woodhead Electric. A few
minutes to see locos changed into
either a B17 or a Britannia. The
B17s were the first Eastern
Region locos, I had ever seen.
Trainspotting in the park near
Ipswich Station brought regular
B17s into view. |
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Around
this time, my Dad took me to my
first Everton match in September
1961, which just happened to be
against Ipswich Town and I
realsied that B17 61663 was named
after 'EVERTON'., which was sadly
withdrawn in February, 1960. I do
not remember if I saw this loco
but when I returned to railway
modelling in 2004, my first loco
was from E-Bay called 'EVERTON'. A
few years later I treated myself
to a full size replica nameplate
from a craftsman at the Dean
Forest Railway for just £60
only.
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