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I'm getting on a bit these days, but reflect fondly upon the footplate rides with my father, a driver, at Eastleigh, when I was a young lad. As his father was a locomotive driver pre 1900, I suppose it was hardly surprising that I became interested. Even more so when I was apprenticed at the same sheds as a locomotive fitter working on Lord Nelsons,King Arthurs, T9s, Drummond Tanks and various standards. I still have an interest from afar, even though not having had any connection since going to sea at the completion of the apprenticeship.
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