MY LIFE IN TRAINS
My Story - Part Twenty Two
Ravenglass, Leicester and Kibworth
When my exam results arrived, much to the surprise of the school, and me, I had not only passed my four ‘A’ levels, but got the best results ever in the school! I was off to university.
Towards the end of the Summer of 1962 I went with a school friend on a two week walking holiday in the Lake District, staying in Youth Hostels, before starting my geology course at Leicester University. We went by train from Euston to Windermere, and set off on a gruelling fortnight of mountain walking, with plenty of rain.
The only railway photos I took were at Ravenglass, of both the Ratty and BR lines.
University kept me busy so I didn’t take any more railway photos until the next February and March, when I explored in and around Leicester for good locations. By now my preferred mode of transport was hitch hiking, which is how I ended up at Kibworth.
All Photographs by Alan Lewis Chambers ©
‘Silent, upon a peak in Darien’ – well, in reality, I was gazing out from the summit of Great Gable in late August, 1962.
'River Irt' at Ravenglass on 27 August 1962.
LMSR Black Five 4-6-0 No 45398 drifts through Ravenglass with a local passenger train on 27 August 1962.
LMSR unrebuilt Patriot 4-6-0 No 45550 crosses the Esk Viaduct at Ravenglass heading an eastbound freight
of engineer's wagons and chemical hoppers on 27 August 1962. This was probably one of the last, or the last, working of 45550.
'River Esk' at Ravenglass on 27 August 1962.
LMSR Jubilee 4-6-0 No 45649 'Hawkins' heads a westbound freight over Knighton Viaduct in Leicester 0n 13 February 1963.
LNER B1 4-6-0 No 61336 shunts vans at Leicester Belgrave Road station on 13 February 1963.
LMSR 8F 2-8-0 No 48033 trundles north with a class J freight near Kibworth on 13 March 1963.
BR 9F 2-10-0 No 92110 speeds south with a class F freight near Kibworth on 13 March 1963
