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• Bagging the Baggies. John Hind explains...
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"I had grown up in Taunton and been associated with the GWS and was one of those who went on the trips to Barry led by Harry Lee to rescue no 5572 - John Pearce, Ray Lee and John Wood and many others whose names I cannot remember were also involved. I left Taunton in 1971 to go to Aston University in Birmingham, but still kept in touch with Harry and Raymond Lee. In Birmingham there was industrial steam at a couple of power stations but the holy grail was British Leyland at Longbridge with the two Baggies [massive 0-6-0 industrial saddle-tanks no 2994 "Vulcan" and no 2996 "Victor" built by Bagnall originally for British Steel]. One Wednesday afternoon in April 1972 or 73, I went along with a fellow student who worked for British Railways, who took his BR ID with him."
"Thus armed we went to the exchange sidings and found "Victor" at work. The driver soon spotted us and perhaps for our own safety as much as anything invited us onto the footplate for an afternoons shunting, which is when these pictures were taken. In passing he mentioned that the two engines were going to be put up for sale. Later that night I phoned Harry Lee and the rest as they say is history....."
John Hind also took the pictures...
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The Baggies
