VETERAN OF FOOTPLATE
LORD MAYOR DRIVES FRENCH EXPRESS FROM STATION BATTLEFIELD SERVICE LONDON, Saturday. Mr. C. W. Beardley, an enginedriver, now Lord Mayor of Sheffield, is visiting the French battlefields with a number of other English Mayors. In Paris be returned to the footplate at the Gare du Nord, and started from the station the Paris - Liege express. Mr. Beardley drove the train a short distance till he encountered a signal against him. Quite a large number of officials and friends had assembled at the station to see the Yorkshire Lord Mayor manipulate one of the largest locomotives in France. In the Great War Mr. Beardley drove locomotives in the battle areas.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 987, 2 June 1930, Page 11
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112VETERAN OF FOOTPLATE Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 987, 2 June 1930, Page 11
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