Kemble memory
John Dagley-Morris sent me this photograph and I could hardly resist a picture of one of my favourite railway locations. Says John, “May I submit this photograph by my late brother Richard? He would have been aged only 16 when he took it on August 26 1959. The locomotives are numerically significant too: ‘Castles’ Nos.5000 and 7000 at the head of the 2.15pm Paddington to Cheltenham. What makes them significant is that they almost share the same number and only the first digit changes. No. 7000 Viscount Portal is the pilot and No. 5000 is the train engine.
