RH7 Bradford Exchange summer 1943. On a Saturday, the top link had a fill in turn, three trips to Halifax, via Queensbury, the last with a double train on six steel or eight GN articulated coaches with the C12 or N5. The road was very heavy indeed with stretches of 1 in 41/42 and the trains stopped at every station. This tested both engine and crew which I greatly enjoyed. Eng 4018, one of the early C12s, was a good little engine which would steam and run and was always worked with a full open regulator and short cut off whenever possible. But the double train on the last round was hard work for a C12 or a GC N5. Ted's mate is Maurice Saunders who was passed for driving soon after and whose place was taken by George Howard. Both were GE men from Colchester, the only two at Bradford at that time.