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(Time waits no one)
It’s late 1950s? And I’m boiler first! (Sat on Red cow crossing spur)! GW express trains pull away! Driver sacrifices speed for adhesion! Cab layout dictates he is my side, He is so close! Waiting a mad wheelspin but still lifts a hand to me that I return! GW meets Southern crews, But so briefly! His Mayflower, Riviera Express whatever is off from St David’s from a standing start for Paddington! On a 6ft 81/2 inch wheel for speed! Whereas my 8 drive wheel Z class I am sitting on is pure grunt for shoving heavy trains up the 1/37 bank to Exeter Central and the Southern region! I would glide in on my Maunsell for North Devon, But have no chance away of the Castle on the next road! And so it goes on to this day? I’ve no chance of matching a Castle on those long legs when in my boat on full throttle on the river? Especially when named the English Riviera? Mind you our Merchant Navy or Westcountry could give it a test? But I shall be shoving countless heavy Meldon stone wagons up the steep bank to Central at 8 MPH? So still no aged challenge from this quarter? Unless a Rail Advent member agreed to film from water ski’s behind my boat? I could give that a go maybe!
