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From: "Dvina" <>
Subject: Re: Engine driver
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 10:35:23 +0100
References: <B53305A8.AB9%gillian.figures@virginnet.co.uk>

I also have an "Engine Driver" that also says "Stationary" and he was a
crane driver at the Tea Docks in London.

Dvina

> Dear John,
>
> Remember that 'engine driver' does not necessarily mean the driver of a
> train. There were many stationary steam engines used in a wide variety of
> situations which required drivers.
>
> For example, one of my Cambridgeshire 'engine driver' forebears worked at
a
> pumping station for fen drainage.
>
> Gillian.
>
>

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