On his birthday, Graham stands in the evening sunshine at our campsite at Burlescombe behind a well loaded UAM. The West of England mainline is just behind the hedge keeping up our tradition of trying to camp as close to the railway as we could. UAM 736J was to disgrace itself the following day with a split bypass hose that was a common malaise on the A-series engines of the time. Whoever would design an engine with a short rubber cooling hose that required the head to be removed to change it?
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