Clarence Yard
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There was one at Penzance marked 'not to be moved from Bristol Temple Meads'
Furthest a Kings Cross one got was Sydney airport. Quantas rang up the AM office and asked if they wanted them back! There was a free mutual return service for airport trolleys that operated between airlines back in those days (late 1970's) so they said yes.
There was a regular van trip between all the BR London termini to get the self help trolleys back to their proper stations or lines but they didn't want to do a run to Heathrow so the AMO rang us (the AME) up and we sent the KXFT C&W van (FDN 92S - a long CF) off to Heathrow to pick up 8 BR trolleys, only 3 being for the Cross! We used to go a few times a year after that.
There was a bloke who used to come round the stations to "do" those trolleys. We always had to give the AMO the numbers of the latest batch to be delivered so, when he rolled up, he knew what he had to spot. I couldn't believe it at first until I actually saw him "in action".