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Old 12-07-2005, 19:47   #22
West Ender
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Re: get rid of your steam??????????

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Originally Posted by jpest1
I remember my mum taking me to church&ossy station to see this train as it sped through. ( it could have been around the same time?1960? It frightened me to bl**dy death. I was only 5 and this great lump of iron beltching steam and whistling as it passed through the old church & ossy station put me off steam trains for life.

My mum grew up in the Station House at that station. She lived there from the age of 3 until she was 16 (in 1926). She used to say they never really noticed the trains even though they were, literally, right under the windows.
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