Serving Up Steam for Gwr ; Martin Freeman Meets Former Railway Fireman Phil Rundle - and Discovers He Still has Steam in His Veins and Coal Dust Beneath His Fingernails
Plymouth Evening Herald, The › October 11, 2009
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IT IS nearly half a century since Phil Rundle fed the great steam locomotives that kept the South West on the move.
But he remains a railway fireman, with steam in his veins and coal dust beneath his fingernails. Though he left the railways, in mind and body he has never been far from the tracks.See the full content of this document
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Serving Up Steam for Gwr ; Martin Freeman Meets Former Railway Fireman Phil Rundle - and Discovers He Still has Steam in His Veins and Coal Dust Beneath His Fingernails
Outside his house in Saltash he can almost touch the Royal Albert Bridge across which he once raced by train at work, and to and from it - illegally - on foot. Inside, bookshelves are packed with romantic s technical accounts of the Great Western Railway (GWR) and the walls re hung with pictures of engines in steam.
Most of all his devotion to the railways shines in his face. As Phil talks about life on the footplate his eyes burn as bright as the fireboxes he stoked. He still feels the thunder of the ...See the full content of this document
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