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Well all this talk about the engine being a bad luck engine or whatever, with all my years on the railway, an engine or loco was an engine, it was allocated and worked, we certainly never bothered about or even thought about what its history was, I think a lot of this comes from the "outside" and not from working railwaymen.
There was a few engines on BR that were involved in a lot more serious incidents than the great train robbery, but they went into works and came back out and worked until the end, we as drivers and firemen or secondmen never give "what has happened to the engine before" a thought. As I say I think that came from Anoraks and people outside of the working railway.
I still think that Jack Mills Should have been recognised in some way though.
RIP Jack mate.
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