Amazing shot showing the horse. Excellent shot of something I never knew of.
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You wonder how the horse kept its composure with that thundering past!
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Wonderful shot,never seen a horse at Welwyn before.
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| Posted by larrym on February 22, 2012 | |
I wonder if this how Norfolk Southern got the inspiration for their logo.
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Is it just me or is that a clock in the nose of the Locomotive. This is a really neat and unique shot 80 years before I was born. PCA from me
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What an interesting shot! Thanks for sharing these great old photos.
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No it's not a clock, just an arrangement of keys for opening the smokebox door. (I was under the impression that such things were clocks for many years, having been told that they were by my mother!). Most British steam engines have a similar feature. A truly incredible shot; presumably the horse - a 'Clydesdale' by the look of it - was used to such interruptions.
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| Posted by JerryE on February 24, 2012 | |
As others have said, on so many levels this is an incredible image of how things were, to think this is the main line out of Kings Cross, London, the very same tracks that the top link expresses were using. The 'Claud' could so easily have been either a A3 (Flying Scotsman) or A4 (Mallard etc.) class on a crack named "Top Link" London Edinburgh express/Pullman services. Never mind the fact that not much more than 12 months later Germany would invade Poland and the world and life would never, could never, be like this ever again...
Welwyn North station, due to location and track layout must have been a real problem to 'shunt' (switch) local freight wagons (cars) with a locomotive, using a horse would have actually made a lot of sense, even if sometimes the then cutting-edge technology did have share the track with what harked back to the origin of the railways!
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An incredible picture !
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