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the great
train adventure
Staffordshire branch ‘track’ down one of the mail
coaches that was involved in the Great Train Robbery.
Alan Everall tells the story.
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In the mail sorting room coach
At Highley Station
Full steam ahead
I
n May, 32 members of Staffordshire
branch enjoyed a day out on the
Severn Valley Steam Railway. The
journey we embarked on took us from
Kidderminster to Bridgenorth and included a
stop at Highley for lunch. The engine house
at Highley contains a very interesting
collection of steam locomotives but of
particular interest to our group was the
actual coach involved in the Great Train
Robbery that took place in 1963. Bryan
Tunney, our Social Secretary, and I were in
the CID at Stafford at that time.
The tour around Highley brought back many
memories for Alan Hancox, another one of
our members, who was later involved in the
escort of one of the robbers from Stafford
prison to the Old Bailey in London for his
appeal hearing.
He recalls that the arrangements were quite
tight as information had been received that
an attempt was to be made involving a bogus
police car to spring him free en-route.
Fortunately, the trip was almost incident free
despite an event in Northamptonshire when
a local police car overtook the convoy in
respose to an unrelated 999 call. A stone
was thrown up by this vehicle as it passed
and shattered the windscreen. The driver, PC
Tony Bowers, had his truncheon handy which
he used to knock out the glass so that he
could see. Alan laments that we thought this
was it until the patrol car carried on unaware
of the anxiety he had caused. Happy days!
Alan Everall
, Chair Staffordshire
The results of the 2012 Photography Competition
were announced by Vice President Ronnie Dukes
at the National Council Meeting in Torquay
- and
are as follows:
OVERALL FIRST:
1st:
Michael Chambers ‘Young
kestrel due to fledge’.
Runner-up:
Tom McInally
'Forth rail bridge.
Category winners:
IPA:
1st:
Tom McInally ‘The team fez throwing’.
Runner-up:
Chris Eccles ‘Police Christmas party in
Swaziland’.
POLICE:
1st:
Harvey Whittam ‘Policing gets
younger at 10 Downing street’.
Runner-up:
Daniel
Barker ‘Bobbies in New York’.
PORTRAITS:
1st:
Ronnie Dukes ‘Sisters in Paris’.
Runner-up:
Michael Murfin ‘Fruit seller’.
LANDSCAPES:
1st:
Tom McInally ‘Forth rail bridge’.
Runner-up:
Alex Wheatley ‘Colorado river’.
OPEN:
1st:
Michael Chambers ‘Young kestrel due
to fledge’.
Runner-up:
Michael Chambers ‘Padstow
lifeboat launching’.
UNDER 16:
1st:
Jamie Brown ‘Protecting light’.
Runner-up:
Jamie Brown ‘Storm bound’.
After selecting the winners the judging panel then
selected 12 images for publication in the Section
UK 2014 calendar. Details of the Calendar and the
published images can be seen below.
For more details on next year’s competition
contact:
