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Discussion in 'Steam Traction' started by Reading General, Feb 12, 2015.

  1. Reading General

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    Got a day off college for this
     

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    October 1971.
    Your namesake location I presume?
     
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  3. Reading General

    Reading General Part of the furniture

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    yep....
     
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    Unfortunately I was off school, recovering from an op! :)
    So I managed to see KGV in action at West Ruislip and Hayes & Harlington, and a visit to Kensington Olympia during the stopover.
     
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    Just worked it out, off the end of (old) platform 4 with the shadow of Reading Bridge House in the left background.
    The silver "chimney" was, I think, near the old power signal box.
    I won't mention the people off the platforms!
     
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  6. Reading General

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    off the end of the platform? We were the other side of the overbridge! different times!
     
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    Thinking more of the people on the left by the wooden hut.
     
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    Thats the C&W examiners hut at the end of no8 isn't it? I was much further out than them!
     
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    Trespass wasn't a problem before 1974. People used to look after themselves.
     
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    I was taken to Westerleigh Junction to see the Return To Steam special :).
     
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    I was taken the Newport to see both the superior engine 6000, and the inferior engine 4472 leave the station with the train with a party from school. Somewhere I still have the platform ticket from that day.
     
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    Hope you don't mind bit I've corrected your typing errors. :)
     
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    Sorry you :Saywhat: but:Resistanceisfutile: so :Chillout:
     
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