Title: Photo enquiry: Abingdon Branch: pannier tank engine + canvas kayak. Post by: Mark A on March 17, 2025, 09:37:12 It's not particularly famous 'cos few people will care and any narrative is lost to time: does anyone else recall this photo? I think in the station at Abingdon, a tank engine with a canvas canoe sort-of strapped alongside the boiler. The reason why being lost in history...
Mark Title: Re: Photo enquiry: Abingdon Branch: pannier tank engine + canvas kayak. Post by: Oxonhutch on March 17, 2025, 17:54:37 I do, and have a reproduction of it somewhere in a book I own.
Title: Re: Photo enquiry: Abingdon Branch: pannier tank engine + canvas kayak. Post by: Mark A on March 17, 2025, 17:57:52 Thanks - don't worry about hunting it out, it's just good to have it confirmed that I didn't imagine it.
Mark Title: Re: Photo enquiry: Abingdon Branch: pannier tank engine + canvas kayak. Post by: Clan Line on March 17, 2025, 19:10:26 I think you must have misidentified the loco................if it had a kayak it was almost certainly a paddle tank.
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