The LNER Encyclopedia

Hi!
New to this Forum, I am known elsewhere in cyberspace as "Papa Lima". As an introduction I would like to share with you our local live steam line which I photographed last summer. I just hope this link works!

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showth ... ight=Anten

My "pen name" here is Archibald Sturrock in honour of the fact that when I lived in Grantham briefly in about 1952 this was the first locomotive I encountered when some local lads encouraged me to become a trainspotter at the early age of 9. At that time our main amusement was placing pennies on the track to see them squashed into saucer size, and running away from the Grantham shed area when chased by the shed staff. The innocence of extreme youth!

I have now lived in Sweden for 30 years or so, but still visit Loughborough and the Nene Valley when I can, as my son and family live in Newark.

All the best to everyone on the Forums!

Archibald Sturrock

Archibald,

Thank you for posting the photographs. I rather like the photo of the station building with the three people standing to attention outside. This photograph proves that there is a prototype for everything. They look just like Airfix 1:100 HO figures standing in front of a 4mm scale 1:76 building.

Joking apart, welcome to the forum,

Colombo

I'm not sure if I'm 'allowed' to reveal Archibald's real name, but he has helped with some photographs recently - including the one of "Dwight Eisenhower".


Richard

Archibald,

On closer inspection of the station photo, I see that the benches are similar to our own LNER pattern.

I like the narrow gauge tender loco. It looks a real antique.

The only real tender engines on the narrow gauge over here were in Ireland on the Londonderry and Lough Swilly. (I am not allowing those that were built as models of main line locos for 15" railways and the like). These were 4-8-0s and so they were also the only examples of that wheel arrangement over here as well. However there are soon to be some South African narrow gauge tender locos running on the Welsh Highland alongside the Beyer Garratts, and I can't wait to see them

Colombo