Q01B - Foreign Railway Heritage

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Personal recollections of railways

Sep 15, 20221 min read

MSF Ambulance Train

Medicine Sans Frontiers ( MSF) Doctors Without Borders have been operating in Ukraine since the war began. A big problem was that the...

Apr 3, 20224 min read

A Foreign Country

Thinking of collecting railway oral histories?. . . . . . . Regular readers of this section will know that some of my stories are based...

Mar 6, 20224 min read

Kenyan Railway Childhoods

Reminiscences from the East African Railways. . . . . . . They were two elderly gentlemen, retired medics from Leicester’s Sikh...

Nov 21, 20214 min read

Polishing the Past

Summary: Questions of restoration policy for locomotives, includes a reference to Berlin Technical Museum. . . . . . No doubt readers...

Oct 31, 20214 min read

Jumbo

Summary: Heritage branding of locomotives citing SR Q1 class in the National Collection. . . . . . . Recently, I was reading something...

Jul 11, 20214 min read

‘La Trochita’ – The Old Patagonian Express

The Old Patagonian Express in Argentina. . . . . . I remember it was a cool summer’s day in Hammersmith. Wandering down a side street I...

May 24, 20213 min read

Mark and the Dragon

Beyer Garrett locomotives in Southern Africa. . . . . . . . A large Beyer Garrett steam locomotive moved slowly over the girder bridge...

Mar 22, 20213 min read

Melancholy or Nostalgia?

The work of the American railroad photographer O Winston Link. . . . . . Perhaps you might indulge me a little this week, as I move away,...

May 23, 20201 min read

From China with love

During a visit to the National Railway Museum in November 1979, the Chinese Minister of Railways Guo Weicheng presented Dr Coiley with a...