Luton Outlaws - Independent Message Board for Luton Town FC

We use to walk from Skimpot bridge to Oak Road along the line, if i remember correctly, Blue Circle were still using the line, i remember a group of us walking along to a game on a really hot day, you couldn't see no further than a few yards with the heat haze. One of us thought they heard a train horn in the distance, we stopped and poo-hoo'd it and we carried on, until we felt the tracks rumbling under foot. Suddenly from behind the sound of a slow moving train, but only a stones throw from us, we all dived to the side of the track, One of us, dived into the stinging nettles, me and the few with brain cells dived the otherside of the tracks onto the gravel. PR (if i remember correctly) spent the whole game being avoided, his face, arms and legs had blistered so much, they had turned to a yellow puss. And i think the old blue saddle tank engine from Laportes is at Quainton railway station.