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Hallo.
Hi DSY011- all. Are you also a Syd?. Ref your comments on the Garrats. I never saw one apart from in photos and videos. A very powerful engine and were also used in other Countries as well as UK I believe. How did you fire one,what was the firebox layout?.
Our main standard shunting engines were the J68 and J69's as at Temple Mills though others were also used. For example we had an 0-4-0 (was it a Y20) which was always know as The Coffee Pot, small but powerful, which worked regularly.
Along the line a ways from Stratford was Goodmayes which also had a largish yard either side of the main tracks. There the shunting was done via a Hump and a J51 was used, I got this job several times when spare. The yard is now gone.
The J68/9's were also used for carriage shunting/sorting, goods trains and also some short branchline passenger trains, good little engines.
Regards.
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