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    Reading General Part of the furniture

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    ........that would document the last steam in service on the WR, particularly at Reading General, after steam finished on the WR in 1965. ?

    I know anecdotally that 34037 Clovelly caused a sensation at RG appearing there light engine in probably 1967. Was this the last one?
    I never heard of one later, but I would assume inter-regionals to Oxford or Banbury could have had steam haulage late in the day
     
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    Why I'm asking is I'm trying to get my head around dates. My first contact with railways (other than a visit to Clapham ) was a Taplow open day. These were 1965/6/7 and as I only went once, I assume it was 1967, in which case I missed steam by a whisker! It's only just dawned on me that in the following 10 years there was a steam ban, a Return to Steam in 1971 and the Hydraulics were all gone by 77. What a decade of change!
     
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