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| Stephen Done. August 3rd 1968, and it was my eighth birthday:whilst dressed in my new Batman cape, with best friend Sean (who was in a bright yellow Robin cape) as dark thundery clouds gathered behind the house, I declared that I wanted to become the driver of a steam engine, only to be told that the very last one was leaving the very next day... Doh!Those storm clouds were significant. Perhaps that is why I took up writing about steam trains instead? But as the upper photograph on the left shows, almost 40 years later I actually managed it, spending a week driving and firing a huge Polish locomotive on real service trains filled with (oddly relaxed!) Poles. I am a museum curator by full-time profession, working at Bristol Industrial Museum, Cyfarthfa Castle Museum, and looking after the Liverpool Football Club Museum at Anfield since 1997. When time allows, I volunteer on the Llangollen and the Welshpool & Llanfair Railways, love real ale, bird watching, reading and collecting books and music. | ||||||
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