For the love of steam

Ken Veitch reflects on some happy memories riding the rails

by Ken Veitch 23rd March 2018

‘To be able to enjoy one’s past is to live twice’

Martial, Epigrams, AD 86

A while ago at Moffat in the Scottish Borders I bought a book entitled The Trains Now Departed: Sixteen Excursions into the Lost Delights of Britain’s Railways. In his excellent narrative, author Michael Williams laments ‘the extinction of many things that once made rail travel joyous’.