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    THE END IS NIGH A MEMORABLE FINAL TOUR

    Jun 25, 2018 4 minutes

    SUNDAY, August 4, 1968 dawned grey and gloomy in the mind as well as in meteorological fact. British Rail, as it proudly proclaimed, was running out of steam. The long-awaited and long-dreaded end was nigh.

    There were six steam railtours that Sunday, to the last refuges in the far north-west. I was booked with a group from SEERS – the South East Essex Railway Society – on to the Railway Correspondence and Travel Society tour, which promised agrand 560 mile safari from Euston, lasting 13hours! With four steam classes, various diesels and electrics and a complex route, a memorable day seemed assured. So it was to prove, although not always in the intended

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