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Most people collect things that are small and easily stored - like stamps. Others collect more esoteric things – Victorian glass bottles, beermats or similar. Not many people in the UK collect railway locos and full size ones at that!
Thanks to my father's business, I was able to drive locos when aged 6, and by 12 I was quite competent enough to be left to drive while my father acted as shunter.
By age 13 I was campaigning for a loco of my own, and luckily my parents agreed, selecting a 30ton Yorkshire 0-4-0 diesel hydraulic on which my father's firm had been carrying out maintenance.
The chosen loco was owned by Ford but they refused to sell just one loco – there were two to go and Ford would not split them and so the two had to be purchased for me.
My collection was started and eventually reached 19 locos and a few other interesting railway bits. During 2009 I finished my university degree (earning myself a BEng) and started work with a train leasing company.
Unfortunately, certain events in 2010 have forced me to reconsider the future of the collection, and I am likely to reduce it to around 12-14 locomotives. I had already decided to sell the Sentinel steam locomotive "George" when totally unexpected action by the board of the Elsecar Heritage Railway compelled me to release North British 0-4-0DH "Coronation" (which has now been sold - see "into September" news).
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