Playing With Trains

A Memory of Daventry.

This was my local rec and I played here every day without fail. I remember the engine being installed and playing on it long before the health and safety guys realised its potential. We found everything worked - the boiler door opened you could crawl inside to hide. All the levers worked and it was probably after some poor kid lost a finger or got stuck inside the boiler that they made it 'safe'!
It really was a fantastic addition to the rec and we played in it, on it and around it constantly. Thanks for this great photo.