Steam in miniature

I first set eyes on Kerr’s Miniature Railway in September 1974, writes Hugh Dougherty, when as a member of a Glasgow University Railway Society party we’d caught The Red Lichtie steam special, behind A4 Union of South Africa, for a trip to the Angus town from Edinburgh and back.

We were young and up for a laugh, so it was into the coaches of Kerr’s Miniature Railway, the ‘wee train’ as it was known locally, that seven of us crammed, along with our mascot, a giant stuffed panda which answered for some reason to the name of Anthony, into one of the KMR coaches, to be hurled briskly up the line and back in the teeth