these were taken up the trailer park in the abbey around 1985 these marathons were ex metal box 
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Hi all looking at the pictures on the web site the last picture got me thinking (a bad sign lol) .Has any one got any pictures of the shunters in the Port Talbot steel works ? They seem to be the unknown ! But they did all the hard work for all of us.
Tony
this was taken up the trailer park in the abbey in the early 90’s.http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy241/chris143_01/80s.jpg[/img]
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My mate Mike Howells stood in front of his dad Ron’s lorry at the age of 9…[album][/
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This is Mike’s dad on the left stood with Shrewsbury driver Melvin pictured in Germany sadly Mike’s dad is’nt with us anymore RIP Ron…http://i796.photobucket.com/albums/yy241/chris143_01/ron.jpg[/img]
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Hi mercman my mate pieman was a shunter for John Raymonds in the abbey for years he’s looking for photo’s for me to borrow so fingers crossed he may have some of the shunters.i rememer NJ Churton when he had a 4 wheel Foden,also mike Pickford of Church Stretton.
Couple of random photos out of the box from down your way gents.
hi adr,
good to see some hicks photo’s on this thread,thanks.
regards andrew
Found a couple more.
ron howells and his beloved foden.
ron loading in much wenlock.
joints driver wayne “flipin heck” jones had a bit of a colourful moment coming back from shotton one day in k555 jmh loaded with baled scrap.
easy to adjust the brakes!
she’ll live again. 
the old whitchurch road through shrewsbury.
me with the gas axe at joints grayeyard getting some pre-used recycled parts.
at the graveyard,many a joint’s motor’s final parking place.
southbound m6 august 1998.kelvin powell on his 40th birthday driving my old a series.
kelvin collecting my f88 gfc 500n on april 15th 2000 @ northleach.
august 2004 a68 jedburgh in my f88.