Pete Briddon

The Railway to Merhead Pete Briddon

Pete Briddon is a railway locomotive specialist by trade, working for a subsidiary of Rolls-Royce Motors and eventually working independently on industrial locomotive repair in the UK. During his railway career, he has seen and been part of many fledgling preservation outfits and their coming into being, and with that, many a story you had to "be there to believe." With that, he decided to pen this story of the fictional Merhead line, a seaside town somewhere on the south coast in around 1963.