Arglwydd Golau
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Been a while since I updated this thread, a few weeks ago I did spend some time on it but circumstances have somewhat intervened since then! Anyway, I can only locate 14 photos that were taken on the Southern by my father when he was at school, 4 of those are so poor it's not worth trying to identify the location, but then there is this one which is at Redhill. (confirmed in my father's lists). It is a Wainright class F1, all well and good but I can find no mention of this particular loco in the two online lists I know of (BR database and Wiki). Is anyone able to solve this? Added to his notes, at a later date is ?34...which would definitely have been his last year (or partial year at Leatherhead). I wonder if the school club organised a formal visit to the shed (being the nearest) and this thought set me pondering about shed visits in the 1930s. By the 1950s they were commonplace, and I remember a few scrambled visits myself in the 1960's, but in the early days of trainspotting it must have been very different.