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We've got a driver who's a bit lazy called HMS Tiredness.

 

I know a bloke who was a loco fitter for the NCB at Nantgarw, called Tommy Horizontal.   He was famous there for doing a job on one of the Austerities which was raising steam at the time, leaving it in full reverse gear, and getting his head down in a warm cabin, to be woken by the unmistakable sound of an Austerity demolishing the back wall of a brick build loco shed.

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I upgraded my camera, well when I say upgraded the missus had a new one and I had her old one, so with this I've set too trying to capture as many people as I can at work on the railway in the Brighton area.

32282686372_c9fa52c09c_h.jpgSimon Hurford 210117 by Simon Barnes, on Flickr

32315985731_31547b90c9_h.jpgAlan Jones 210117 by Simon Barnes, on Flickr

31625234983_b8d26430a6_h.jpgBarry Carline 210117 by Simon Barnes, on Flickr

32454687115_ca5edeaaf0_h.jpgBen Evans by Simon Barnes, on Flickr

32303869752_f186491833_h.jpgGareth Williams 220117 by Simon Barnes, on Flickr

32417112096_8eb90aee72_h.jpgBrighton Dvr Colin by Simon Barnes, on Flickr

32325332192_f62848f466_h.jpgAndy Priest 230117 by Simon Barnes, on Flickr

32325326082_8a6fe9c99b_h.jpgMatt punt 230117 by Simon Barnes, on Flickr

32325324552_507fc0521e_h.jpgMic Browning 230117 by Simon Barnes, on Flickr

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Waiting for the road at Hamworthy with empties for Whately Quarry.

 

If anyone can identify the driver (who I assume is a Westbury man), please send me a PM. Just for my own interest.

 

Peter, it's worked by Eastleigh men.

 

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A few more current images I've captured.

32391968461_b44695e1b3_b.jpgAntony "Fluff" Burfield by Simon Barnes, on Flickr

32473371686_cda457288d_b.jpgC Downes by Simon Barnes, on Flickr

31763945284_eea89565ee_b.jpgBridgette by Simon Barnes, on Flickr

32022791934_8be7d1270b_b.jpgPaul Hill by Simon Barnes, on Flickr

32756360091_c4d765686b_b.jpgNeal Edmunds by Simon Barnes, on Flickr

32896652802_69e60a699c_b.jpgAlan Paul by Simon Barnes, on Flickr

32237241893_0248d74123_b.jpgPaul Bailey by Simon Barnes, on Flickr

33010834476_6b8ecdc7a1_b.jpgMartin Foster by Simon Barnes, on Flickr

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Just to show that not all railway workers work with trains, here is Doncaster's 76t breakdown crane holding a footbridge  on the York station avoiding line while it is burnt through. I can't remember the exact date, but it was before the crane went onto TOPS because it still has its old number.

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In fact, I'll edit this post just to show you the number. I spoil you, I really do.

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Posing.....

 

I rarely fired one of our 2-6-4T's because they were for specific jobs (Oldham Clegg Street parcels jobs to Yorkshire and the 'Delph Goods', both of which were regular manned), but I was 'captured on camera' while assisting the firelighter and acting shed turner...

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This was early one very windy Saturday morning. The Black 5 wasn't ours but we had been told to use it on the Ashton Oldham Road pilot instead of an Austerity 2-8-0, the instruction being to 'hide it'. The shed foreman must have had a use for it the following Monday! My driver spent most of the morning playing cards while I went walkies investigating the web of lines around OA&GB Junction.....

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