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Hello all, Thanks for having me, I am one of the last footplate men, I was at Aston sheds in Birmingham starting off cleaning and labouring, I just made it to fireman when steam ended and the shed was closed. one of the reasons for joining is I bought a job lot of reel to reel tapes, and on one of them is a BBC recording made in 1960 of the unveiling of Evening star, which I have tried to upload, there is also a recording of the driver of Mallard telling his story of the speed attempt, now I don't know if this is widely available or not,but i thought I would share it just in case it's not

Hello chazchas and welcome to the forum from all the staff, enjoy and all the best and looking forward to some of your stories of your time on the footplate.

Hello chazchas and welcome to the Railway Forum. I was a fireman on the Rhodesian Railways.