LONDON steam-eratrainspotters followed a well-trodden path in an insatiable desire to‘cop’steam, writes Geoff Courtney. It was a path that involved buses and Underground trains transporting us to Liverpool Street, King’s Cross, St Pancras, Euston, Paddington and onward south of the Thames to mainlyWaterloo.
Other termini may have been deemed worthy of the occasional visit, especially Victoria, but Marylebone was unfairly treated almost as an outcast and so rarely checked despite