Quarter-century

That was more than a quarter-century ago.

In the present writer's opinion there was no greater and more successful locomotive engineer in the country, during the first quarter-century, than George Jackson Churchward of the Great Western Railway. This statement is made without prejudice, for I was brought up on the other line extending from Waterloo to Padstow, and between Swindon and Eastleigh there was a great gulf fixed.

I spent my second quarter-century Losing what I had learnt at university And refusing to take in what had happened since […]