The Final Departure

The children wave goodbye to Mallard as it leaves Little Woodend for the final time.

Greater Woodend.

I asked the children what they thought of this and little Timmy, smart as a button piped up, "That Dr Beeching is a proper twit."

At least I think that is what he said, it was hard to hear over the roar of the engine.

Busy day today with no opportunity to get my camera out of its bag, so I settled for this historic shot from 1963.

(...ish!)