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Image 0001 is the celebrated Photo 84 that caused such a fuss when it was published, from my collection, in Middeleton Press’ Branch Lines around Portmadoc, 1923-46. The carriage is parked behind the engine shed at Boston Lodge, on the western of a pair of sidings that kicked back from the siding giving access to the loco turntable (Up the line, behind the photographer). In front of the carriage is the ex-WD bogie mounted travelling crane purchased on the authority of Colonel Stephens but barely used on the FR as it would not go through Rhiw Plas bridge (also behind the photographer) and was excessive for use within Boston Lodge Works. note that the former carriage truck, previously under the jib, has been removed. The stock on the siding running up to the door of the old weigh house comprises, an end-door, ventilated van, probably one of those adapted for carrying meat; a white-painted, metal, water tank mounted on a slab waggon and in front of that a wooden framed England engine tender, formerly paired with Welsh Pony but damaged in an accident during the shunting of the boiler of the dismantled single Fairlie Taliesin. In front of the tender is a broken, cast iron, bracket and platform from an FR disc signal and a slate slab sleeper, complete with chairs. Photograph; H.F.Wheeler on 9th August 1935, courtesy FR Archives.