Roy Etherington, as always dressed in black clothing and in this instance supplemented by a miner’s helmet, demonstrates the compressed air mines locomotive Hissing Sid which he constructed at Statfold several years ago.
CLIFF THOMAS
ROY Etherington, well known and highly respected in the industrial railway world, died at the beginning of November at the age of 81.
Apast chairman and president of the Industrial Railway Society, Roy was probably best known in the wider narrow gauge scene for having constructed a recreation of a Lishman & Young compressed air mines locomotive which became known as (Hissing) Sid, which is now part of the Statfold collection, and serving as volunteer archivist at Statfold, a role from which he stood down just a week before his death.
The Statfold archivist role is now being undertaken by David HSmith.