ROY Millerhasgone, inhisownwords,“to that great engine shed in the sky”.
He was a man of many parts but all were connected to and by railway preservation, going back to the London Railway Preservation Society (LRPS), formed in 1962. They remitted Roy and his lifelong friend and fellow preservationist Peter Clarke to look for a railway site to set up a preservation centre with a decent length of running line.
These two, who also formed The Ivatt Trust, looked at sites including Buntingford and associated branch lines which closed in 1965. They