LIVERPOOL AND NORTH WEST STEAM, 1967/68

Like many other writers in Steam World, my railway travels and adventures in the 1960s were the result of my time in the Armed Forces, as I travelled round the country from base to base and on leave, visiting friends and family across the UK.

I joined the Royal Navy almost straight from school aged 15 in early 1964 and served until early 1972. My childhood was spent in Callander in Perthshire on the Dunblane to Oban line and my upstairs bedroom window at 91 Main Street looked over to the line as it entered Callander from the South. ‘Black Fives’ and BR Standards were the order of the day – still my favourite classes to this day!

I spent many, many hours at the