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As a very small boy some 55 years ago I lived in a small place in Nottinghamshire called Awsworth. The Great Northern line from Derby Friargate to Nottingham Victoria went through the village. I would lie in bed at night listening to the loose coupled freights picking the couplings up as they started up the incline. That noise started my life long love of railways, I spent every hour I could by that trackside. In 1957 my mother let me go to Grantham for the day with some boys older than myself. I defy anyone to have gone there in the height of summer and being surrounded by A4s, A3s, A1s, V2s and come away without a love of steam engines. It has been with me ever since.
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