Couple Recreates 65-Year-Old Wedding Photo, Waving at Passing Train

Published on October 3, 2024

A couple have recreated their 65-year-old wedding photo in which they waved at a passing train—something the bride did every day as a girl. George and Margaret Stone celebrated their anniversary on Sept. 5 and marked it by continuing a tradition that goes back decades. Margaret and her sister Janet spent their childhood waving at trains that passed their garden, with the drivers often tooting back. Margaret spent hours waving at the London to Penzance steam trains, which used to thunder past her home in Wiltshire, in South West England. So much so that even on her wedding day, on Sept. 5, 1959, Margaret and her then-new husband, George, didn’t miss waving at the train from the family farm in Easterton, near Devizes. Margaret and her sister even made a wedding cake, which was shared by 300 employees of the Western Region of British Railways....

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