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(Steam gives way to diesel)! If i chose a date, It would be 1965! Come this date i feel the change over might be serialised! It was slow! Gradual! And based on Bristol Bath road in my case? You sign on, Then a fair walk over lines to the steam shed of Barrow road! Your engine is GW! Awkward firing! Left arm leading, ‘Back to front’ and cache handed? If i shovel something into a wheelbarrow then you take a certain stance! Or in the pub, You may offer your right shoulder to stroke your arrow to double tops! But swing a certain way to pair your injectors on a very jumpy footplate at speed you must think! But not think glad that that’s over, Ive got it cracked! Because your return journey after relief is opposite side again on a Standard or Maunsell or Bulleid in my case? So a natural stance and next you get a nice green suit! You have many Diesel warships and a dozen 1000 Western type hydraulic engines and the many faithful Hymec’s to shake a stick at! But to alternate from day to day means lots of writing that puts people to sleep and loose interest? So serialisation might be the best? Next you are fitted a green suit and learn the many train heating boilers! Ok, You can wake up now! I’m gone! Next time you gun out of Templemead’s on Western Duke or Prince? The sleeper gobblers! No more peering along a long boiler on an unfavourable curve?
