L to R: John, Phil, Keith, Ian, Mike, Natalie
I have made a number of friends through people getting in touch after reading posts about my recollections of the steam railway era. Recently, my friend Phil arranged for Keith to give a slideshow on 12th February 2010 to a small group of interested people. Keith presented a collection of 35mm slides he has recently acquired depicting steam/diesel/electric traction dating mainly from the 1960s onwards taken in the West Midlands. Present were Natalie, Keith, Phil, Mike, Ian, John and Jan.
All the slides were of great interest but I can't resist showing below a personal favourite (re-photographed from the screen). The original was taken from Tipton Owen Street signal box on a murky day and shows a 'Jubilee' on a down express passing the goods shed.
Later in the evening, Ian used his laptop computer to show some of his photographs of Norton Junction and the South Stafford Line. Jan had provided a computer projector which worked perfectly earlier in the evening but (of course) decided to fail when re-connected to Ian's computer, so everybody congregated around the laptop.
Ian showing some of his collection
The evening was a good opportunity to discuss arcane matters of mutual interest including signalling, working timetables and our lost railway infrastructure.
There's a small collection of pictures here.
