GLOSSING OVER THE DAMP: The sun shines during a break between rain showers, resulting in a freshly washed look at the closed Rotherham Masborough station on December 4, as LMS ‘Jubilee’ No. 45690
Leander hauls the ‘The York Yuletide Express’. The Railway Touring Company excursion ran from Liverpool Lime Street to York. West Coast Class 47
No. 47746 was at the rear.
ALAN WEAVER
LIGHT RAILWAY CHARM: For the first time since 2019, steam has returned to Mangapps Railway Museum in Essex, with the visit of Bill Parker’s 1918
Kerr Stuart 0-4-0WT No. 3063 ‘Willy the Well-
Tank’. The locomotive is seen approaching Old Heath station on December 11.
STUART CHAPMAN