Comments on: Tony Bock on the Railway

By: Pete Boor

Pete Boor — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 19:32:28 +0000

Great photos I was at Stratford from 1972 to 1987 and transferred to Penzance the photos brought back many happy memories.

By: TED

TED — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 02:11:27 +0000

wow I started work at 16 in 1976 at stratford deport .. As a drivers assistant . Worked with all older guys from the old days of steam locos and ww2 , the deport and Liverpool street station was full of history . I heard it all first hand , these few photos took me back to them days .
I was one of the crew that sat on that class 47 loco at the stops by the great Easton hotel .
I was taken back just for a moment to a conversation I was haveing with a old driver called Charlie finchham sitting at those stop under the banner for the hotel .
As he rolled a cig , nut brown tobacco , was telling me tails of ww2 and running down to south end .. Or maybe till berry ,, I forget , but the Germans were shooting up the train as it ran down the line Charlie and his mate were on the floor as the loco ripped down the line …
They were great stories from great guys that really saw a lot , all gone now .
Wish there was video then 🙂 but I’m thank full for the few pics .

By: Allanah Morrison Scott

Allanah Morrison Scott — Tue, 14 May 2013 00:44:09 +0000

Tony, your images and story are very wonderful, thank you! I’ve always loved train life; travel, stations, the comings and goings indeed anywhere/anytime all these years. Lovely! Cheerio.

By: Rena

Rena — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:05:29 +0000

Such great photos.I was born in the East End Of London in the 50s and grew up with these images.A trip back through Memory Lane.

By: Peter Twist

Peter Twist — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:00:39 +0000

Thank you for publishing these for the first time. I do hope Tony will share these remarkable photographs with the London Metropolitan Archives in due course, for future generations.

By: sprite

sprite — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:08:45 +0000

derelict station –
another train, another rail
going nowhere

sprite

By: sprite

sprite — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:06:42 +0000

unattended suitcase –
innocence regained lasted
between this war and that…
parallel lines of goodbyes
in bygone stations

sprite

By: Bob Davenport

Bob Davenport — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 18:27:39 +0000

David Brief: I think that was Blackfriars – see http://mural.uv.es/jahesa/granta_extract.htm. Or did Broad Street have similar carvings?

By: Margaret

Margaret — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:26:52 +0000

As a child, my nearest station was Victoria. I have fond memories of the News Cinema, intended to while the time away for travellers waiting for connections. It had A and B movies of course, and newsreels which held rather less attraction for a small child. Actually, as far as I was concerned, the B movies weren’t up to much either: travelogues of Patagonia, that sort of thing.

By: Toni Ellwand

Toni Ellwand — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 15:56:24 +0000

Loved the rather bored Railway attendant as the crowds said goodbyes to their loved ones!