Brian Robert Andrews was born in the midst of coal and steam near his father’s workplace at West Wallsend Extended Colliery at Killingworth in 1948. His father was in charge of maintaining Caledonian Collieries’ fleet of coal wagons, and the family of eight lived in a company-owned house. At 17 months Brian contracted polio. He … Continue reading Brian’s childhood polio helped feed his love of coalmines and railways