It was back in the 1990s when I was Iprivileged to borrow some negatives from the widow of photographer Carl Stratmann. I had this sequence of prints showing the preparation of a GWR.
PREPARING A 'CASTLE'
An East Ender's View of Steam
It is one of my regrets that I didn’t experience rural branch lines in steam days. I grew up in 1950s East London and by the time that I was old enough – and had enough money to travel further afield – Beeching’s axe had fallen and steam was almost g
