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The 50 loco challenge
I READ your loco challenge article (March issue) with fond memories of the time I lived in Nuneaton in the early 1970s. Things were much more difficult trying to see all of the traffic through the station then.
Firstly, loco-spotters were banned from the platforms and, despite our attempts to sneak onto the platforms via the long-closed Weddington Terrace subway, we were always caught by a porter and escorted off the station. So, most people congregated on the Leicester Road bridge in all weathers, where most traffic, with the exception of movements in the Down Sidings, could be viewed.
To get the numbers of locos on the Nuneaton Avoider, however, avid eyes were needed to spot the semaphore signals being off, and then a
