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The Summer of '66

wombatofludham

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The prolonged nice spell has enabled me to progress some bits and bobs on the layout, but the main works have been an extra heavy clean, stock sorting and a rethink on the backscene, to make it easier to remove for access to the fiddle yard behind.  However, I've also been doing some work on the stock.

Today, I repaired and converted a DC Kits AL1 in 1966-7 livery, which I had bought many moons ago and which was fitted with a Black Beetle, to which I fitted a DCC converted Hornby 86 chassis.  It's actually a pretty good fit once you shorten it slightly at each end and cut back the chassis side walls slightly, and although it struggles to pull any lengthy trains, it has given me a possible way forward for a couple more DC kits bodies which still have their Black Beetle bogies, especially as I do still have quite a few Hornby 86s which have become redundant.

So today's photos are a trip back to the Summer of 1966.  I'm three years old, my late mother is three months pregnant, and despite New Street north tunnels not being energised, some electric trains are running via Wednesford.  Being 3, I have zero interest in some football thing going on in the country, to be honest 55 years later, I still have no interest in the game.

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E3017 stands at Wednesford with a Manchester-Stoke-Birmingham semi fast.

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E3017 hauls a rake comprising mainly ex-LMS or LNER coaches on this semi-fast.  An ex LMS TK is behind an ex-LMS BG

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Porthole CK and Mk1 SO

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Ex-LNER Buffet, no doubt robbed from the Harwich boat train.  Another ex-LMS Stanier design, a BTK brings up the rear.

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Ex LMS TK coupled to a Mk1 CK in the new blue-grey livery.

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A shocking admission regarding football which could be very controversial with some - but certainly not me!

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I think my dislike of footy caused my late father to question my true parentage as he was an avid football fan despite being a Walsall supporter.  I'm most definitely the odd one out in the family, my brother is also a mad keen football fan and my uncle and cousins are season ticket holders for the Saddlers.  It was always amusing when, in a past job, I got to visit The Hawthorns executive box (nice food, I gather some team called West Bromwich Academicals play there) and the board room of a football team in Witton in the course of my job, much to the envy of the avid fans of said teams in my office, all of which of course had zero interest for me.  In fact I found the AVFC boardroom a ghastly design mess, glazed terracotta orange bare brickwork, a claret and blue carpet with prancing pussies woven into it and claret and blue leather boardroom chairs, with glass cabinets full of silverware the club apparently won from time to time.  It was hideous, it just lacked a Swarovsky crystal chandelier and gold plated bathroom fittings to be a complete taste disaster.  I said as much to an AVFC supporter when I got back to the office after the meeting.  They didn't talk to me for a week.

It seems footy fans are almost as obsessive and prickly as Great Western fans.

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