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    A TASTE OF THE VALLEY ON THE FOOTPLATE!

    Jun 04, 2019 6 minutes
    ANN EVANS

    It’s 8.15am on Saturday, February 23 and I’ve arrived at the Severn Valley Railway’s Bewdley station with my better half Sarah. My parents are waiting in their car, having arrived moments before from their Montgomeryshire home. The mist appears to be eating the overnight frost for breakfast – there’s certainly a nip in the air.

    I’m dressed in old blue jeans, a black cotton T-shirt and an old blue hoody. They’re clothes I normally wear to do the garden or work on a railway. With the car boot open, I sit on the edge and I hastily pull up my boilersuit, swap my trainers for toe capped boots and pick up my gloves and grease top cap, complete with its Cambrian Railway company badge.

    The seeds for the day were sown earlier in the year during a routine catch-up with Lesley Carr, who manages communications and PR for the Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust Ltd. Discussing ideas for potential features, she asked whether I would be

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