My BIL spent yesterday up at the National Railway Museum York, UK, visiting with the six A4s on show there commemorating ‘Mallard’s’ WSR set back in 1938.
This is from him and shows just how much the UK public think about old locomotives…
‘Hello Tac…Had a good day at york yesterday. Sending you some pictures, but it was very difficult to get good ones. The engines were all front on to a turntable, which you can see from one of the pics. This made it very difficult to get pictures of the whole engine. But the main problem was, as you can see, the VAST crowds. Yesterday they had 7000 thru the entrance by 12pm !!! On Saturday last they had 14,000 before midday…Just not enough space between engines, and too many punters. Anyway, it was worth the visit, and had a good look round the rest of the site. The two engines from over the water, were, looking at pictures of them arriving at the docks, in a terrible state. The museum workshops did a brilliant external paint job on them, but goodness knows what the internal workings are like.’
I’ll try and find some way of posting images, but don’t hold your breath. Anyhow, you all know what an A4 looks like, eh?
tac
