Machine for selling platform tickets, so that well-wishers could get onto the platform to welcome arriving passengers or see off departing ones. In the platform tickets always cost a penny (in old money).
The Engine Driver - Sir Lamiel Ready To Roll! King Arthur Class Sir Lamiel No. 777 was built in June Photographed at Ropley Station on the Watercress Line.
Can't resist a visit to Didcot Railway Museum, Great Western Society's unique collection of steam engines, coaches and wagons, all just fifteen minutes' drive from The Old Post Office, Wallingford