BRITISH RAIL DRIVER'S CAP
I'd love to be able to say this had been mine or my dad's drivers hat from our days working top link turns from Doncaster in the 1980s but unfortunately it's not, my dad was a teacher and I've never driven a train 😔.
As a boy growing up in the 1970s/80s I was always fascinated with how smart the majority of railway staff were, Obviously drivers were the most highly regarded by us spotters back then, and I always wanted a drivers hat. This example was picked up, very cheaply, from a stall at a Barrow Hill Roundhouse open day in the early 2000s and now belongs to my son. I do still put it on from time to time though! Well you can dream can't you? 👍
BRITISH RAIL DRIVER'S CAP
I'd love to be able to say this had been mine or my dad's drivers hat from our days working top link turns from Doncaster in the 1980s but unfortunately it's not, my dad was a teacher and I've never driven a train 😔.
As a boy growing up in the 1970s/80s I was always fascinated with how smart the majority of railway staff were, Obviously drivers were the most highly regarded by us spotters back then, and I always wanted a drivers hat. This example was picked up, very cheaply, from a stall at a Barrow Hill Roundhouse open day in the early 2000s and now belongs to my son. I do still put it on from time to time though! Well you can dream can't you? 👍