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Old 16th September 2010, 20:26
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Originally Posted by rod2102 View Post
many thanks for your info which does clarify,however ,next to the loco can in no way be described as close to rear of train as possible and as a preserved railway surely the demonstration should have been showing the norm rather than the exception, or am I just being pedantic ? after all, many visitors to preserved railways never ever saw an unfitted goods train.
I lived in loose coupled trains for 10 years everyday, on all types of trains and on a mirade of routes.
I went to Doncaster that many times, I could sit in the BV and know where I was from the outside smells, by the noise of the wheels on the track, and the flicks of the BV when it hit a wet patch on the track.
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