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Stephen Rowley

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 I was a cinema engineer for my sins which must be many and so was my farther before me. As a child I was fascinated by how many different ways different company's could find to pull a bit of film though a projector. I collected projector from the age of 8 until ill health put an end to it in 2009.
 
When I was a child we would go to Southport and see the 7.1/4 track and we also had a family friend who know a guy called David Tepper. He had a second hand shop just out of Manchester and many model engineers in Manchester back in the 1950's 60@s and 70's will know of him.
I remember being in his shop once when he had 2, 7.1/4 4-6-2 tender locos in the back room and because he had had a new counter in the shop, could not get them out, so I watched as they took out the sash window and with the use of planks pushed one of the loco's up and over the sill and into his old ford van though the wooden partition and on to the front seat. I have loved scale locomotives ever since.
My first locomotive was a 3.1/2" GWR 4-4-2 (HM Royal Marines)  built in 1949. It was started as a GWR King but the builder changed his mined. It had a wide firebox boiler and Baker valve gear. It happily pulled 6 people round the old track at Newport South Wales.
Now I am building my own locomotive.
Stephen

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