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Chingford - Liverpool Street in steam days, N7 tank hauling 2 sets of quint-arts. A nostalgic if uncomfortable journey!

Talk of services on the LTSR puts me in mind of my schooldays in the fifties and seeing the Swedish Lloyd/P&O Boat Trains going through Walthamstow bound for Tilbury. Usually pulled by a "flying pig" or a 4F, normally in grotty condition and certainly not travelling at express speeds! Wonder...

Sunday School excursion in the mid-fifties, Walthamstow (Hoe Street) to Clacton in scruffy Gresley bow-ended blood and custard coaches. Engine was B17 "Gayton Hall". Did not get there until after lunch so time on the beach was limited - but of course the train journey was the real treat. The...

I was a post-war baby boomer and grew up in north-east London. Loved the atmosphere of Liverpool Street in the late fifties; the rhythmic sound of Westinghouse pumps, the slamming of carriage doors and the constant noise from steam locos arriving and leaving. The smell of steam, smoke and hot...