Reading on Trains Number 6: The Colonel

A railway eccentric on the right side of history.

Colonel Stephens Railway Museum

A few years ago, I wrote and presented a BBC 4 TV documentary called The Trains That Time Forgot – an odd sort of title, as I pointed out to the executive who’d come up with it, since the film was devoted to the very trains time had not forgotten, and indeed two of them – The Flying Scotsman and The Cornish Riviera Express…