Nigel Dant remembers Allan Garraway
Submitted by Dennis on Sun, 04/01/2015 - 20:19Having grown up in Cambridge alongside one-time Gresley Society members Leslie Peters and Derrick Dant, Allan Garraway joined the railways for what one would have assumed to be a long and promising career. In September 1953 he became Technical Assistant to the Motive Power Superintendent responsible for AWS. This provided him with the opportunity for numerous footplate trips testing the newly installed equipment and it was during this time that he got to know Bill Hoole particularly well, though the two had first met in March 1953 during trials to improve the steaming of the single chimney A4s.