A Shepherd on the Railway!
53 years ago today I was travelling on the now defunct Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (or the Slow and Damn Jolty as it was affectionately known). I was going to join the army at Blandford Camp.
In the same compartment was another young man. In the course of conversation he revealed that he was an English Cricketer, and that he had just resolved to offer himself for ordination in the church.
He was David Shepherd, later to become champion of the urban poor, and eventually Bishop of Liverpool.
He is now dead. May he rest in peace and rise in glory!
