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Learn a lot in 17 months – Footplate Padre

Learn a lot in 17 months – Footplate Padre

My career as a locomotive engineman began in July 1968. As a sixteen year old, I left home in Canberra and relocated to Goulburn, the closest round house where trainee enginemen could enter Acting Fireman School when they turned seventeen and a half..

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