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Morning all

Can anyone recall the colour of the coaches used on the two coach push and pull train around 1956/57 which operated between Selby and Goole.It was pulled by a Selby G5 usually 67250 with 67286 as spare .The loco always faced goole and the stock was held at Selby over night. The line was dieselised around September 1957.I travelled on the train daily to the intermediate station at Drax where I attended Read grammer school.

Any old Draxonians out there in railway land?


Thanks

50C

Hello!

Light teak as I remember from 1951/2.

Cheers, thc

Thanks thc,

That sounds about right as far as I can remember.

I only had the one year on the train under steam haulage and I recall that most of the leather straps on the dropdown windows had been removed by generations of school boys.We often tried to see how many kids we could get into one compartment-24 seems to ring a bell.Occasionally,when we all disgorged from the train at Selby,someone would be left tied up on a luggage rack for the porters to find.

Sometimes on returning to Selby the train would be held under the road bridge just to the south of the station while an earlier stopper cleared the down platform.This was the signal to start rocking the two coaches from side to side in an attempt to touch the bridge wall-how close we came to clipping an express on the up main I'll never know.Silly when you look back.

Oh the innocense of youth in the 50's!!!

50c