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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris
I remember my dad taking me down to stand at the little gate by the side of the"underground" at the bottom of Crossland Street to watch the first diesel train to come through Accy. Must've been the late 50's. It was actually announced in the Observer and a crowd of people had gathered to witness this momentous event (eeh, we knew how to live in them days!).
Can't say I was impressed...
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As a child I lived opposite that gate, on Grant Street. I remember sitting on the wall as the steam trains came lumbering through to Accy Station; the whole wall shook as they passed! Funnily enough the drivers never bothered telling us to clear off, even though we shouldn't have been sitting a mere two feet away from certain death.
I also remember carriages of the Royal Train being parked there one afternoon.