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Hello
My first encounter with a steam engine was at Snow Hill Station Birmingham in 1957 and I was nine years old, My dads brother was doing his national service and was returning to Shrewsbury. My mother took me to look at the engine and while looking we was invited onto the footplate by the driver, she wrote down the name of the engine and this was Hindlip Hall cant remember the number. This lit my fire for the love of steam and I became a Fireman in 1963. On March 4th 1967 I passed through Snow Hill this time I was firing my last ever steam engine 7029 Clun Castle on a special train to commemorate the end of steam hauled trains on the Paddington Birkenhead line.
Carl.
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