British Mainline Steam 1978

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	Supplies for the journey overnight to Edinburgh at New St 26 August 1978
	Edinburgh Waverley at 08.00 on a Sunday morning with the overnight sleeper from Bristol and Birmingham in the platform 27 August 1978
	60009 "Union of South Africa" at Edinburgh Waverley with an excursion for Aberdeen 27 August 1978
	60009 "Union of South Africa" at Edinburgh Waverley with an excursion for Aberdeen 27 August 1978
	Ken Quarnborough, Paul Hudson & "Rambling" Ken westcott at Waverley 27 August 1978
	Passing Inverkeithing shipbreakers 27 August 1978
	Near Inverkeithing 27 August 1978
	Near Inverkeithing 27 August 1978
	Running along the Fife coast 27 August 1978
	Running along the Fife coast 27 August 1978
	Leuchars 27 August 1978
	Leuchars, the 2nd carriage is 14901, the experimental LFK which was later on the SVR for a few years before moving to the Telford Steam Railway 27 August 1978
	The north end of Aberdeen station 27 August 1978
	Looking back from the north end of Aberdeen station. Once there were a series of bay platforms on the left 27 August 1978
	A southbound ballast train comes through Aberdeen 27 August 1978
	40144 at Aberdeen 27 August 1978
	60009 ready to return to Edinburgh from Aberdeen 27 August 1978
	60009 at Dundee 27 August 1978
	60009 at Dundee 27 August 1978
	60009 at Dundee 27 August 1978

I was born in 1953 and educated at Tonbridge and Bristol University. Since then I have been employed on the Railways, most of the time in the West Midlands. From 1980 I lived in Wolverhampton, and for the last 20 years in Bridgnorth