I assume it was your being told by amatures how to run a loco that caused the problem, or was it they did not like being corrected?
I only wish I lived 'just round the corner' since I can listen all day to people telling me how to do things I cannot do myself. and not knowing more do not criticise although may query (due to not knowing any better) what or why. That being said I often walk aweay from these 'experts' when I hear things that I know from experience are completely untrue.
Never mind I like reading of past expoits on the railways and promise not to disagree with what I know not about.
More tales from those who led a life pursuing a boy' dream.
John *G)
PS Great.......Great Grandfather in about 1860 was a platelayer (or similar) on the Eastern Railway or so the 1861 census informed us.
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