VALE JOHN REGINALD EASSIE
On New Year’s Eve 2020, a year that most of us would rather forget, we received the terribly sad news of the passing of John Eassie. He would have been 73 in January 2021.
I knew John for almost 60 years — since I was 14 years old — from his involvement as president of Meadowbank Boys High School Railway Club and I was president of Asquith Boys High School Railway Club about 1963.
We both started railway apprenticeships at Eveleigh in 1964 and had many great times and trips on tours and regular trains during what modellers often call the ‘transition’ era, chasing or travelling on the last steam-hauled trains to everywhere.
