The guard's van....

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Why the title? My interest in railways comes from my father's family. He was a goods guard, His brothers worked on the railway and his father worked for the LNWR. My father came home each day and told me what he had seen from the guard's van and it has stayed with me over the years. The railway is very different now. I want to share a variety of images of todays railways (which my father would hardly recognise) and a few of the railway he knew.
The loco would certainly have been familiar to him. It was one of the workhorses of the LMS when he joined it. The station is, of course, York but he knew that too from holiday trip.

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