FOR those of us who were southernbased trainspotters as the postwar 1950s gave way to the Swinging Sixties and steam conceded the upper hand to diesels, BR’s six regions tended to have associations in our adolescent minds, writes Geoff Courtney.
The Scottish Region, for example, was associated with never-to-be ‘copped’ locomotives, the North Eastern Region with – well, to be honest, not a lot, the Eastern Region with the glamour of the ECML namers, the London Midland Region with its West Coast Main Line counterparts, and the Southern Region with rather too
