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    May 14, 2018 4 minutes

    CLASS 40 EYEWITNESS

    I WAS most interested to see your article about the 1970 accident between two Class 40s on the Granton branch in Edinburgh (page 30 May issue), because I was on the scene of the crash hours after it had happened.

    I was 12 years old at the time, and when I came home from school that day I saw the headline on my dad’s Evening News about the accident, so I headed off with some friends to find the scene.

    We found the locos on the straight stretch near the former Bonnington Junction and approached them to have a closer look. There was a watchman with the

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