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clive BRretired posted an update
Them Southern Bulleids would come n go! You might get something quite different back, Airstream gone! Fancy new Walschaert gear? A recent show on here of Eddystone was a similar path like Taw Valley, Both Atlantic coast express regulars! 92 then 257 squadrons in that order would follow, Then Manston! So many of them! Life would go on, Sir Frederick pile (58) like Blackmore Vale would languish on shed (72a) with many others? Someone somewhere would say lets do that one? Or was it to be added to a service? But quite apart from all the Merchant Navy being done then i (one of four cleaners in my gang) would be tracked down by Mainline drivers to do the added oiling needed! Ah, my boy can you do my oiling? We had a special wooden push along horse for un-converteds! (No side walk on frames) And i was the new evolutionary animal to the steam era! A sort of ferret come monkey! Climb up out of pits, Under something like Can Line! Hang over inner counter balances with hot oil. Nothing compared to some? That had so many motion rods like a mincing machine some of them. If T9, Adams any Drummond or whatever that had no outside motion then welcome to the scissors factory or mincing works squeeze inside! You could loose an arm on a busy pit if not careful! Money good though! £3-9shilling a week! Ten bob for my mum! Equates Today to (3 n half quid less 50pence)? (Exmth Jct 72A)
