Rugby to Charwelton, 1940s

In the summer of 2019 dad made the journey once again from Rugby Central to the little rural station of Charwelton on the Great Central Line. The only snag was that neither station now exists, and trains haven't run there for over half a century, since the line was closed and the tracks removed in the 1960s. As a boy, dad often made the journey to Charwelton, which was the nearest station to Great Everdon, the Northamptonshire village where his mother Margaret Kate had grown up. The young Kenneth spent many happy times in G. Everdon with his uncle Charlie, wife Nancy and family, including Charlie's daughter Grace, and Uncle Harry, who was the station master at Charwelton.