Re: Bristol & the Royal Scots.

Peter Masson wrote:
"Kesterj" <Kesterj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

I don't know what it was like for adults, but I remember in those days
(we lived near the SECR main line till I was 6) that the GA was a sort
of Concorde to a kid then. Actually going to France !! That was SO
exotic to us ordinary folk at the time. It never occurred to me that
one day I ight actually travel on it - as I did 12 years later, albeit
then as an EMU.

The Arrow was never an emu. .....

Oooer. Sorry! Maybe I was on the relief. Or maybe just in the path of
the GA. Or maybe I was just plain wrong, and my memory was playing
tricks.

I don't remember any loco hauled trains when I started going to France
in summer 70, except for the Night Ferry, which we used to catch on the
Friday evening for a weekend of steam bashing around Boulogne.

I think the GA as a pullman had stopped by then.

Certainly we went to France around Easter 71 and I remember abandonning
the trip (only one 141R due to work that evening) and getting back to
Blighty at around 14.00 or so. I think that day we came into
Folkestone. I might have just told myself this was about the time the
GA would work, and got confused in my memory ever since.

When did the loco working stop? Presumably it was E50xx or did they put
on 2 x E60xx?

Kester

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