Stories from steam railways and other heritage locations.
Howard's Railway Ramblings.
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Stories from steam railways and other heritage locations.
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10/16/2025
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October 31, 2025
Alex Scott. Wartime Footplate Man. Part 5.
<p>One of Alex's duties at Watford was working push and pull trains where the driver made the return journey using controls in a compartment in the rear carriage. They ran between Watford Junction and St. Albans and also on the short branch from Harrow and Wealdstone to Stanmore via Belmont. The trains were used by men from the RAF base nearby and, according to Alex, used the trains for a little "pulling" of their own with willing participants from the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Similar liaisons took palce on the late night all stations service from Euston to Bletchley, so life had its lighter side for a wartime footplate man!</p>
October 31, 2025
Alex Scott. Wartime Footplate Man. Part 4.
<p>After working as a passed cleaner for about two years Alex transferred to Watford loco shed where he was promoted to fireman. He then took examinations to become a passed fireman qualifying him to be a driver. Much of the work at Watford was on freight and coal trains but they also had turns on the local stopping passenger trains between Euston and Bletchley. As he still lived with his parents near to Camden shed Alex was called out by the foreman there to work on expresses to the north and one unique loco he fired was the Turbomotive which had steam turbines instead of cylinders. His eyes were also opened by what one Bushey mother would do to keep her trackside house warm!</p>
October 31, 2025
Alex Scott. Wartime Footplate Man. Part 3.
<p>As a railwayman Alex was exempt from military service but that didn't mean working on the footplate was any less dangerous than serving overseas. On the home front the trains had to keep running day and night and often that meant braving the bombs of the London blitz. In November 1941 Alex vividly remembers a parachute mine that exploded near Queen's Park station. Whole streets were flattened and many people were killed leaving a local cinema. Alex was on a train returning from Blackpool which was caught up in the blast but he didn't realise the extent of the casualties until the train arrived at Euston. On a lighter note he remembers the drunk American soldier who found his way into an engine tender and how he courted the daughter of a pompous railway guard.</p>
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