Archive of Martin Ward's web page, recovered April 2025
Bulleid's SEmG Photos 3 - Emergency at HK
with apologies to Brother Lawrence
A surprise at Horsted Keynes was the appearance of this traction engine.
We later managed to talk the driver out of flattening the fine signal.
It is always good to have someone to blame, and this is the man! David Lawrence is guilty of having formed the SEmG and guided it over the past years to become the most popular railway group on the Internet.
The Southern Railway "sunshine" lettering as well as the flexible roof between cab and tender is seen to good effect.
David Lawrence is seen here after fulfilling a lifetime's amibition and cabbed a Q1. But he is looking particularly pleased because - as yet unknown to the crew - he has rewarded them with a "silent but deadly". Mind you, looking at the fireman in the window, it's possible that it has just reached him. What will happen when those explosive gasses reach the Q1's firebox doesn't bear thinking about...
...luckily the firmean was able to get a warning out before collapsing, and Horsted Keynes was quickly evacuated. The extensive layout is seen here from the rapidly-departing GNR Director's Saloon.