GWR 2-4-0T No. 1384 was at Hemyock
Regarding the photograph of Lambourn Valley 2-4-OT No. 1384 at ‘an unknown location’ (page 49 Steam World April) surely it is at Henryock?
Howard Mason, Sale, Cheshire
Memories of the WCML at Blisworth around 1960
From time to time I like to browse through past copies of Steam World and during one such bout of nostalgia I came across the tremendously evocative article ‘Fate, Steam and The Copy Pit Line’ (issue September 2018) by Nigel Harris. I must admit that this set the old memory brain cells working with a vengeance!
In the 1950s and early 1960s I used to travel the 5½ miles from Northampton Castle station to the main line venue of Blisworth on the Euston-Glasgow-route. There were usually two Ivatt ‘2MT’ 2-6-2Ts running a push-and-pull service to that modest, but important junction, Nos. 41218 and 41219. They took it
