Nostalgia Junction

Memories of the Days of Steam

(page 3)

Featuring the Pictorial History of British Railway Companies 

and Steam Locomotive Development (1829-1952)

Pictorial History of British Railway Companies and Steam Locomotive Development (1829-1952)

LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY - 1829

The 'Rocket' built by Robert Stevenson and winner of the Rainhill Trials

NORTH LONDON RAILWAY - 1868

An Adams 4-4-0 tank, as modernised and running in the 20th century

 FESTINIOG RAILWAY - 1869

Robert Fairlie's patent "Double Engine" as still running today

LONDON, CHATHAM AND DOVER RAILWAY - 1873

One of Martley's 'Europa' class 2-4-0 locomotives used on the Dover Mails

CAMBRIAN RAILWAYS COMPANY - 1893

A Passenger 4-4-0 designed by Aston

HIGHLAND RAILWAY COMPANY - 1896

A David Jones' 4-4-0 'Lock' used on the Perth-Inverness run

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY - 1899

An Aspinall 'Atlantic' 4-4-2

GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY - 1900

The "Claud Hamilton" - a 4-4-0 express passenger locomotive

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY - 1903

The "City of Truro" - a record breaking design

GLASGOW AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY - 1903

A Manson 4-6-0 for the Midland Pullman trains

NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY COMPANY - 1906

A Reid 'Atlantic' - a premier class engine 

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY COMPANY  - 1906

'Cardean' One of the most famous Scottish locomotives.

LONDON, TILBURY AND SOUTHEND RAILWAY COMPANY - 1907-9

Thomas Whitelegg's 4-4-2 express tank engine

LONDON, BRIGHTON AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY - 1910

The 'Abergavenny' Earle-Marsh's 4-6-2 tank engine for the Brighton Line

LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY - 1911

A "Prince of Wales" 4-6-0, a very successful design.

LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY - 1912

Dugald Drummond's Handsome 'D15' 4-4-0 Locomotive.

GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY - 1913

 J. G. Robinson's 'Director' Class 4-4-0 Express Passenger Engine.

SOMERSET AND DORSET JOINT RAILWAY - 1914

One of the special  2-8-0 freight engines designed and built at Derby.

NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY - 1916

Hookam's 0-6-4 passenger tank engine.

SOUTH EASTERN AND CHATHAM RAILWAY COMPANY - 1917

Maunsell 'N' Class 2-6-0 mixed traffic locomotive

MIDLAND RAILWAY - 1919

The Lickey Bank Engine 0-10-0 'Big Bertha'

FURNESS RAILWAY COMPANY - 1920

E. Sharples 4-6-4 tank engine for heavy intermediate duty.

GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND RAILWAY COMPANY - 1920

A particularly handsome 4-4-0 by T.E.Heywood

METROPOLITAN RAILWAY - 1920

Charles Jones' 4-4-4 express tank engine

Great Northern Railway - 1922

The first Gresley Pacific, No. 1470 'Great Northern'

North Eastern Railway - 1922

Sir Vincent Raven's Pacific, the climax of North Eastern locomotive design

London and North Eastern Railway - 1935

Gresley's class A4 streamlined Pacific 'Mallard' which attained 126 mph in 1938

Southern Railway -1941

'Merchant Navy' class Pacific designed by O.V.S. Bullied

London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company - 1943

The rebuilt 'Royal Scot' which included many new features and the 'Stanier' taper boiler.

British Railways - 1951

A Britannia Pacific No 70037 'Hereward the Wake'

Railway Postcards from Sheringham Station

Sheringham is the headquarters for the North Norfolk Railway, a five mile stretch of line on the former Midland & Great Northern (M&GN) Joint Railway that takes you from the coastal resort of Sheringham, via Weybourne, to the market town of Holt. The ten mile round trip will take you through fields of poppies and through delightful coastal countryside areas of North Norfolk designated as being of outstanding natural beauty.  At Sheringham there is a Visitor's Centre, Museum of Local Railways, a Museum Signal Box, a Souvenir Shop and a Railway Carriage Buffet. One of the train services offered is the "East Coast Pullman," a prestige dining train that features travel in Pullman carriages built in the 1930s and once forming part of the "Brighton Belle." Diners can relive the atmosphere of Pullman travel and luxury. Locals once dubbed the M&GN as the "Muddle and Get Knowhere," hardly applicable to this delightful little railway as it is today.

As I have indicated in "My Page" (link at bottom of page) Sheringham has a very special place in my memories of England and of the era of steam railways. In fact, as far as I am concerned, nostalgia about England and memories of the days of steam are synonymous experiences.  It is partly for this reason that I have included - in a section on Railway Post Cards - a brief plug for my boyhood "home from home" and my favourite Norfolk town.  I say it's only partly the reason because Sheringham station is where I actually purchased the post cards 23 years ago in 1977 during a visit to the UK from my home in Canada. 

The following sets of suitably aged railway postcards show not only the development of the locomotive over the years, but also show the crests and names of many of the old, mostly forgotten railway companies that were around before the grouping into the "Big Four."  These thirty postcard images will be introduced onto this page a few at a time during the remainder of March.

[Master Cutler] [Golden Arrow] [Iron Duke] [Arrival at York] [Swindon Pride] 

[Great Western Splendour] [LNER 4472] [Cheltenham] [Leicester Shed] [Sunset Duchess]

[B17/6 Leicester City] [Railway Posters] [West Bridge]

[Northgates] [About the Artist] [Railway Postcards]

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