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    Oct 21, 2022 3 minutes

    No. 6859 was the ‘Grange'

    I read with interest the help Brian Till (Former Wolverhampton Oxley Fireman) is seeking regarding the summer Saturday ‘68XX’ working from Wolverhampton Low Level to Crewe via Shrewsbury in ‘Call Attention’, Steam World October 2022.

    I spent quite some time on summer Saturdays in 1965 around Wolverhampton Low level and Birmingham Snow Hill with both still and cine cameras. The weekend would usually start with a visit to Oxley MPD late on a Friday night when all was quiet, to scan the roster board and check upon the summer relief workings that

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