While this month’s tour through our pages takes us to such places as Ash Junction and Attleborough, Birchington-on-Sea and Birmingham, Canterbury and Crewe, Diggle and Dublin, and even Waterloo, Whitby and Woodhead, I’d like to take a moment to voice my appreciation for the input of the readership and the joy of Tail Lamp. Following the news that I shared about dad in the last Trains of Thought, there have been countless kind messages recollecting time spent with him, or how through the pages of Steam Days, and phone conversations filled with reminisces and shared memories, so many of you knew him; thank you.
Tail Lamp ebbs and flows with amounts of feedback that can never be anticipated, with some articles inspiring a wealth of correspondence; a lively spell can…