| Re: Photo enquiry: Abingdon Branch: pannier tank engine + canvas kayak. Posted by Clan Line at 19:10, 17th March 2025 |     |
I think you must have misidentified the loco................if it had a kayak it was almost certainly a paddle tank.
| Re: Photo enquiry: Abingdon Branch: pannier tank engine + canvas kayak. Posted by Mark A at 17:57, 17th March 2025 | |
Thanks - don't worry about hunting it out, it's just good to have it confirmed that I didn't imagine it.
Mark
| Re: Photo enquiry: Abingdon Branch: pannier tank engine + canvas kayak. Posted by Oxonhutch at 17:54, 17th March 2025 | |
I do, and have a reproduction of it somewhere in a book I own.
| Photo enquiry: Abingdon Branch: pannier tank engine + canvas kayak. Posted by Mark A at 09:37, 17th March 2025 | |
It's not particularly famous 'cos few people will care and any narrative is lost to time: does anyone else recall this photo? I think in the station at Abingdon, a tank engine with a canvas canoe sort-of strapped alongside the boiler. The reason why being lost in history...
Mark
