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(The scrap gang)
Gang, Lol! Me n regular driver on extra’s! Always on nights! Cold, Dark, Maybe wet walk from Bristol Bath road depot to Bristol Barrow road steam shed! Put a string of 3/4 together and pull by steam to 1st stop Severn tunnel jct! Some entire, Some with con rods removed and in tenders! Centralise, Cocks open but no movement of piston with no drive rods! But they still made a row in that very long Severn tunnel! It was 4 or 5 mile of sound bouncing back from a brick tunnel! And very pitch dark of course? I just concentrated on my living steed, Some sort of 5 or maybe 90 Austerity! Anything we put together on Barrow road Bristol shed really! Maybe Witherslack Hall one of the last? Dunno! But I saw 3802 on here just now! Some did come back! A few I fired, Took to scrap and they bounced back! 80064 I had on Devon lines! Some were in really good nick! There was a Owsdon Hall? or Downham Hall! But only to Dec’ 1965! Early 1966 maybe but then we were Western and Warship sorts! A new world (Diesel) I was issued a green suit! And my own locker on Bath road! And I got Billy Fury’s autograph!!