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Originally Posted by Westonboy
I have a passing interest in railways, mainly because I am in a diminishing group who actually worked on BR steam before its demise in 1968. My depot was Birkenhead 8H where I was a fireman from 1963 until the end of steam.
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I fired a number of steam locos on the main line in my BR secondman days, early '80s. Did it because it was something different. Most of the training was given in the messroom by the older drivers and on the job, no formal training as such, pick it up as you go along! List includes LNER A4 Pacific, "Union of South Africa"; numerous Black 5s, NBR J36 "Maude" on many occasions; LNER V2 "Green Arrow" and finally, BR 9F "Evening Star". There was talk of a driver training course at Carnforth but it never happened.