Q01B - Foreign Railway Heritage

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Personal recollections of railways

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...

A Foreign Country

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

Kenyan Railway Childhoods

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

Polishing the Past

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

Jumbo

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

‘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...

Mark and the Dragon

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

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,...

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...