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Old 25-06-2012, 09:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Coquet View Post
I used to travel down the Whittle line with and Electrician called Norman Marshall to do the planned maintenance on the track switches. On the diesel locos though - steam was before my time. Ken Middlemist was head honcho No1 driver on the locos I recall.
It was talking to Ken this am that prompted me to put the films on the forum!
He is on page 3 of todays Journal, reunited with one of the Whittle diesels he used to drive. There is a link, if you havn't seen it, on the Aln Valley Railway's facebook page.
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