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Use to love driving the strood to paddock wood route.would have willingly done it permanently.yes you had the Medway towns crap hole of the universe bit,but it was offset by Maidstone to paddock wood.
As a driver the 47s were the one that gave me the most problems.Always had bet with either guard or secondman as to how far we would get before they died.western region ones were the worst.
EQ brake was a shocking system allegedly brought into use for partially fitted freight trains to reduce the amount of incidents of guards been wrapped around the stove pipe.We had 31s and 37s fitted with it .used it a couple of times had a few toe bending moments with it.Made redundant and...