wrote on 18 January 2011
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12:50 pm
Hi Chris..Nice to hear from you..I threw the Chair down an embankment near to West Grinstead Station. I or should I say myself and another chap (The Contractor) took all the chairs up from Southwater Station to Partridge green Stations Bridge only..There was a Track gang about 200 yards ahead of us taking up the track and another gang that was about a mile behind us taking up the sleepers.. Maybe the chair that you found is the same one and just maybe someone else found it and carried it to where you found it and couldnt carry it any longer being as they weigh almsost half a hundredweight.. I do know that the date was welded on and a not part of the actual casting process. I have only at present watched the dvd up to West Grinstead Station which I thoroughly enjoyed as memories of myself looking out of the window at that Station are still vivid of the old black steam train itself...Thanks for writing as I have great interest not only in Railways but just about everything Regards Stan.