It is hard, nigh on impossible to recall that scenes like this were possible on an April Saturday in 1966 at a busy main line railway station serving the capital of Scotland. Yet here is the evidence of what happened when the Altrincham Rly. Excursion Socy. 'Waverley Special' railtour was ready to depart behind 'V2' 60836 from Edinburgh Waverley to Berwick-on-Tweed! Lots of fun and no-one died...

© Raymond McCarthy. Eddie Johnson Archive