Vale of Rheidol 1983

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	VofR No 8 leaving Aberystwyth shed, the late Stan Kidsley supervising January 23, 1983
	Dragging No 7 out ready for a boiler lift January 23, 1983
	Flat wagons ready for the boiler January 23, 1983
	The cab comes off January 23, 1983
	The cab comes off January 23, 1983
	The cab comes off January 23, 1983
	Now for the boiler January 23, 1983
	The boiler is lifted clear January 23, 1983
	Moving No 7's boiler onto the flat wagons January 23, 1983
	Moving No 7's boiler onto the flat wagons January 23, 1983
	Lowering No 7's boiler onto the flat wagons January 23, 1983
	Shunting the dissembled loco back to the shed January 23, 1983
	Now for the coaches January 23, 1983
	Setting the "spansets" January 23, 1983
	4148 in the air January 23, 1983
	Over the mainline ready for the wagon to be shunted underneath January 23, 1983
	4999 is lowered onto its wagon. It returned from Chester rebuilt as a "Vista Coach" January 23, 1983

I was born in 1953 and educated at Tonbridge and Bristol University. Since then I have been employed on the Railways, most of the time in the West Midlands. From 1980 I lived in Wolverhampton, and for the last 20 years in Bridgnorth