Two donkeys and a dog – but little else on site of Bassett-Lowke founder’s much-loved garden railway
NICK Booker has had many memorable moments during his long association with a variety of Britain’s railways, but none can have been as quirky and surreal as his recent visit into the rural depths of north Bedfordshire.
There, with Midland main line trains thundering past just yards away, he found himself on a wet and cold November day in a field in the hamlet of Radwell, watched by a curious dog and two donkeys while trying to trace surviving reminders of a long-lost railway associated with a founder and director of the world-famous Bassett-Lowke model company.
Nick, a 74-year-old visitor attraction consultant, is
