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Sp Branch 67
Sp Branch 67
Photo: B McDonough
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Item #: 14943
Can anyone name this nice gent and litte lad!
I fogot his name!

Comment by: Roland Middleton on 30th May 2010 at 10:55

I don't know the lad, the gent is Arthur Gilligian, I remember him well.

Comment by: peterfrost on 2nd June 2010 at 23:01

train was called Hotspur

Comment by: aitch on 3rd June 2010 at 10:06

you are right there Roland, definitly Arthur, and Peter, smacked legs time, the engine was called Hotspur, the train was what it pulled

Comment by: peter frost on 15th June 2010 at 11:44

train/engine was called hotspur
aitch your getting cantakerous in your old age
i have this train/engine ticked off ion my 1959 observer book of trains

Comment by: BrianMc on 20th June 2010 at 15:10

thanks for name of gent re the engine it is as said 70011 " Hotspur" Britannia class 7 note nameplates have been removed ready for time when scrapped

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