Sleeve identification
Following the ‘banter’ about post-1960s music in recent issues, I have attached a copy of an album cover by a late 1960s group called Tramline and was wondering whether you or your knowledgable readers can tell the location depicted. They were an English group but I cannot tell if this is a British or overseas location, although to me it looks British. I am sure somebody out there can identify the Location.
John Ledward by e-mail
(The signalbox looks like one of the GWR wartime austerity ‘ARP’ boxes, while the double telegraph poles suggest Midland Railway. So I suspect somewhere in the Bristol/Gloucester area where GWR and MR lines met.-Ed)
Flying Scotsman in Australia
I have been inspired by Peter Willis’ letter in SW443 to write about and in Australia. We were living in Perth at the time, which was the Australian Bicentenary in 1988, and it was amazing to see the crowds these engines drew. We went on a trip from Perth to Northam, about 50 miles inland, with the two engines double heading up the Avon River valley. On the return, the train was divided, with the two halves crossing each other at a number of passing places back to Perth. This gave wonderful opportunities to see and photograph the other train.
