‘THE MASTER CUTLER’ MYSTERY... RE-IMAGINED
Around 1953, I had become a young trainspotting enthusiast. We lived in Chesterfield in the village of Old Whittington, in north Derbyshire: over to the west was the Midland Railway (MR) ‘New Road’ to Sheffield, Leeds and Manchester. Gowholes (mainly freight), to the east, was the ‘Old Road’ (now called the ‘freight line’), which diverged from the New Road at Tapton Junction, just north of Chesterfield station.
The New Road was mainly used for passenger services, with such titled trains as the ‘Thames
