Back in the 1960s the range of locomotives available to railway modellers was somewhat limited. However, K's produced '00' and 'TT' gauge kits for the construction of '97XX' class condensing panniers and, in consequence, these models ran on many layouts, including branch line layouts set in locations such as Devon or Cornwall. In reality, the eleven '97XX' class 0-6-0PTs were stationed at Old Oak and they rarely ventured far from Paddington. There was, neverthless, some debate over the use of these engines on branch lines, and in this context I have often wondered if they ever worked on the Staines West branch - Cyril Freezer remembered a run from Paddington to Uxbridge behind one of these locomotives, which suggests that they may also have appeared at Staines, the working of the Staines and Uxbridge lines being, in some cases, quite closely linked?