Nearholmer
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Come in from the Waterloo Bridge road and walk right down, passed the big green doors into the W&C line depot, along from that was the BRS repair shop, next to that was the ODM workshop being on the left, over in the corner was the BR stores ( Drivers bags, cleaning gear etc )
Then round the corner under the telephone exchange was our other workshop that repaired battery platform sweepers and the BRUTE tugs.
The 'other bit' by the Armstrong was the lighting department, next to that was the 'Plans arch' and the 'Lamp arch' which repaired the tail lamps.
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Got it now, thanks.
IIRC, in the ODM arch there was a store on a built-up mezzanine, and a sort of tunnel, up in the ceiling where conduit and tray-work was kept.
I've been racking my brain trying to remember who the guy in charge was, but its probably a good job I can't, because I recall that he was a bit of a drinker (half bottle in his jacket pocket), and he was rumoured to have "a fancy woman" who lived at Feltham(?).
The depot was was famous for fiddles then, petrol on the company charge card, booking jobs that didn't exist, some heavy sessions in the Alex and another pub near Durnsford Road etc etc.
Most of what I learned there was "the school of hard knocks", rather than engineering, although some of the guys really knew their stuff and took the trouble to explain it.
Mixed memories!
You never know, we might even have met at some stage,
All the best, Kevin
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If you havent the slightest interest in cars it becomes very difficult to buy one. I end up wandering around dealers forecourts, taking photographs of anything that takes my fancy then Googling it to read the test reports. Do that for long enough and you come to the conclusion that there isnt a car on the market worth buying!
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I went through the "dazed and confused" phase when my old car (fifteen years use, bought at c24 months old) was clearly entering "huge bills to keep it going" territory, so I can identify very closely with what you say.
My solution was to set a budget, and attempt to get the best VFM medium-sized car c12-24 months old that I could for that. By default, I ended-up buying a brand new car, because dealers had pre-registered so many in June 2018, which they hadn't shifted over the summer that they were flogging them off in September 2018 at "secondhand prices". I got three dealerships under-cutting one another in a phone-bidding contest!
Moral? Do look at pre-registered cars just before the registration is due to change - dealers are sometimes near-desparate to shift stock to meet quarterly targets.
Oh, and I don't much like the car! Its a 4x4 shaped one, although actually 2WD, whereas I had an estate before, and it seems very space-inefficient by comparison. So, I got that wrong.
Kevin
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