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By olwaymore

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Poetry and songs of the 'Steam Age'.

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GATES OF GLORY

By olwaymore on Sat, 12 Nov 2005

'He'd worked on the footplate for forty long years, he remembered the sweat and he remembered the tears, And he remembered the thrill of just being alive, with a full head of steam on an old Black Five;'
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