|
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.
This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |