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clive BRretired posted an update
(Un dos trays) – dee’eth brass door handles each side of an old coach! So different to todays coach layout three pictures down? In the fifties i would put my canoe in those waters on the right, And later follow the curve through the distant houses in my Ivatt 2 Mt to the coastal docks! Not my 82 3Mt though? Rails not suitable? Through two main roads! But so few cars about back then? This train is in the shunting yard! I would carry out the shunting and dock runs on my own! With just the shunter, Who could of won Gold at past Olympics for his sprinting to control my runaway coal and timber wagons! (Yarns) It was he that could run and jump like Russian Ballet legionary Nijinkski! Or catch some scantily clad bird in Swan Lake! For he would sprint and insert his long pine pole to leap up and to lift the link to part another load of wagons! Such majesty! Further up the coast this might be low loaders of VW Vans for converting into camping vans? And it would be another few years in 1963/4 when i took Un = ocho brass carriage door handles off a diesel unit with Maunsell 874 ‘N’class being done up on Swanage! Proving a DMU is wider than a Maunsell? (Think my French might suit in Spain)1 Doh!
