Pictures that capture the period MHR preserves

Horace Ward's © photos circa 1950,
and some of his recent photos with a 1950s Speed Graphic

At MHR you can see & hear powerful steam locos working really hard up long steep gradients
The Watercress Line steam railway in Hampshire: friendliest steam railway people in UK make every visit a pleasure
Translate/traduzca/Übersetzen Sie/tradurre/traduire

Three photos circa 1950: Feltham plank crossing;
Sunday excursion from Feltham to Bognor
Standard Five at Victoria, 2003
Three photos of A4 Union of South Africa at King's Cross on a Cathedrals Express, 2003
Bodmin at Waterloo on a Cathedrals Express to Salisbury, 2003
Speed Graphic

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