The Railway Children, Bradford Interchange, Bradford, 09/02/16.

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With the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, the location for Lionel Jeffries’ 1970 film version of “The Railway Children“, being  only a few station stops away, I suppose it is only right that a scene from “The Railway Children” welcomes visitors to Bradford. Interestingly though, it might be quickly to get to Keighley from Bradford’s other railway station, Bradford Forest Square, but there is only 20 minutes in it!

George Stephenson admiring a locomotive, Chesterfield Train Station, Chesterfield, 04/06/16.

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Makeshift Repairs, Lincoln Central Station, St. Mary’s Street, Lincoln, 26/06/15.

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Photo Archive: Sir John Betjemen Admiring The Eurostar, St Pancras International Train Station, Euston Road, London, 2013.

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Photo Archive: Ornamental details, Bury St. Edmunds Railway Station, 2013.

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Designed by Sancton Wood and formally opened in November 1847.

Photo Archive: Cyffordd twnnel Hafren/Severn Tunnel Junction Train Station, Rogiet, 24/08/14.

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The Train Station clock and scaffolding, Cleethorpes, 16/01/15.

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Correct twice a day.

Photo Archive: “Mind The Gap”, Saltaire, 17/05/14.

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Another Train With a Moustache, Paragon Interchange, Hull, 19/11/14.

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What were the chances?

Another commute to Beverley from Hull and another train with a moustache waiting for me on Platform 7. I might have mistaken it for the first train with a moustache [see: A Train With a Moustache, Paragon Interchange, Hull, 08/11/14], but then I remembered that I’d written down the number of the first train in my diary, so I could know for sure. This is moustache train 158792 (or should that be moustache train 57795? I didn’t think to look up what numbers railway enthusiasts actually record!) were as the first moustache train had 158795 written on the front. Perhaps trains with moustaches are quite common place after all?

Rolls of Honour (unveiled), Paragon Interchange, Hull, 10/11/14.

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“Product of HMP Hull”.

On Saturday I posted a photograph of these memorial plaques wrapped in bubble wrap [https://anticsroadshowblogspot.wordpress.com/2014/11/08/plaques-wrapped-in-bubble-wrap-paragon-interchange-hull-081114/] and here is one of them now they have been officially unveiled. One of the interesting things about them is, if you look at the bottom right hand corner of each of them, you’ll see, written in gold, “Product of HMP Hull” and, credit where credit is due, the staff and inmates have done a really good job.

To quote Station Manager David Hatfield, interviewed by BBC News, “We have over 2,000 names and 20 plaques but it started as one simple plaque but as we got the names from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission they just kept growing“.

Interestingly, the Hull Daily Mail, lists the number of names as 4,730. 4,730 Hull servicemen who left the city, mostly via what is now the Paragon Interchange, to the various theatres of World War One, never to return.