Steam World

A SPOTTERS TALE - PART 4

knew where Neasden shed was because I had grand parents that lived at Finchley and we used to visit them around half a dozen times a year in the 1950s. To get there from West Ealing was a bus ride from Ealing Broadway along the North Circular Road. Ealing Broadway station was the terminus of the Route 112 bus that took us along the North Circular past Hanger Lane (just before the underpass was built) under the many bridges carrying the LMS main line from Euston at Stonebridge Park and on to the girder bridge at Neasden that crossed the GC main line from Marylebone alongside the Bakerloo and Metropoliton LT lines. As we

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