Ivor Goes To Rochdale

Janet and Dave (Hopwood Hall College) read from a children's classic. Not very long ago, in the top left-hand corner of Wales, there was a railway. It wasn’t a very long railway or a very important railway, but it was called The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited, and it was all there was. And in a shed, in a siding at the end of the railway, lived the Locomotive of the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited, which was a long name for a little engine so his friends just called him Ivor. Now, in the morning Jones the Steam, the engine driver, would come down over the hill. “Morning, Ivor! Jumping cold this morning!” Then Jones would light Ivor’s fire, fill up his coal box and then, when Ivor’s boiler was boiling, he would make a pot of tea. Then, when he had finished his tea, Jones the Steam would climb on to the footplate, open Ivor’s regulator and … CHUFF … CHUFF … CHUFF … out they would trundle, out of the shed and out into the bright morning air.