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A steam-hauled ‘jolly’ – but when and where...?

rom the time that I joined Ian Allan Ltd as a school leaver in 1963, I have worked with railway photographs. Whether it’s a modelling magazine or one about fullsize railways, every article needs to be illustrated. In the 1960s our photographic resource was entirely black and white. The only colour was paid for by advertisers and that was rare. Finding captions for black and white photographs could be a frustration. All too often, photographers would not write on the back of their prints. The caption details would be in a letter which quickly became separated from the picture. Some,