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During the past weekend we had the pleasure of the company of the Morgan family from Wales. Family patriarch Richard Morgan and I met when we were both on the police Special Course at the Police Staff College, Bramshill for a year in 1969/70. Richard was in Dyfed Powys Police and I was in Bradford City. We, along with a couple of dozen others that year had survived a rigorous national selection procedure, designed to find the future leaders of the police service and to teach them how not to eat peas with their knives. There is friendship in adversity and we have been friends ever since.
Richard and Marilyn's grandchildren, Callum (8) and Josh (17 and six feet three) were with them and between us we were able to fit the brake mechanisms back onto the truck. That done, we had a safe, braked, rolling chassis and I can report that young Callum was able to push it along the line unaided. Callum also helped me as an On-Train-Guide, selling £54's worth of line guidebooks to vulnerable passengers on the 1348 to Carlisle on Saturday. Man-mountain Josh meanwhile lifted the heavy brake gear into position whilst Richard and I inserted the bolts. All that training at Bramshill was finally paying off on something useful.
The pictures above and below show how the wagon now looks.
How different from a few days ago:
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