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footplate; engine cleaner; fireman; driver; training; work conditions; freight, coal; lodgings Second World War; freight, ammunition; air raids; electric locomotives; passenger trains; accidents; Beyer Garratt; d.o.b. 1901-11-21, railway work: 1918-1966, London and North Eastern Railway; Doncaster; Manchester-Sheffield-Wath line; Woodhead tunnel;

Sheridan, George Mosby

2000-05-24

Made during the interview training session. The Interview was between a career Signalling and Telegraph Engineer and a career Traction and Rolling Stock Engineer, whose careers were both with British Rail. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Robin Nelson/David Russell

2000-04-17

messenger; porter; guard; relief stationmaster; controller; Royal Engineers; First Aid movement; "wages" grade posts; wartime experiences; Royal Engineers; railways in France and India; railway First Aid movement. d.o.b. 1916-11-23. railway work 1931-1979. Barnsley. 2.8346 x 3.1496 x .315 in.

Harper, Hollin

2000-06-22

footplate, knocker-up, cleaner, fireman, driver; d.o.b. 1922-06- 19; railway work 1937-1985. Birmingham. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Alcock, Gwilyn Tudor

2000-06-06

Made during the interview training session. 1940s-1990s. relief station clerk; personnel; traffic management scheme; reorganisation; local departmental committees; sectional councils; trade unions; business-led organisation; privatisation; Lincoln; Doncaster; Retford; York; Sheffield; Leeds. : 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Vessey, John

2000-04-17

footplate, cleaner, fireman; clerk, accounts, supplies. d.o.b. 1921-09-15; railway work 1945-1985. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Rice, Walter

2000-06-08

footplate; knocker-up; engine cleaner; mutual improvement class; firing; driver; Second World War; diesel and electric traction training; royal trains; Travelling Post Office; d.o.b. 1920, railway work 1938-1983, Kittybrewster; Fraserburgh; Macduff; York; Aberdeen; Ferryhill; Edinburgh; Haddington; Polmont; Usan; Longmorn; Montrose; Ballater; St Combs; Cairnie Junction;

Adam, John

2001-05-02

London Passenger Transport Board; Royal Engineers, Second World War; BTC; management, Assistant GM and General Manager SR; electrification; modernisation; dieselisation; political relationships; Beeching closures; BRHQ; incidents; BRB; Childhood; First World War, Buckingham Palace; father, Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna MP, Chairman of Midland Bank; school, Eton College; university, Trinity College, Cambridge; influence of father on career choice, LPTB; John Cliff, T&GWU; starting work; London Transport Act; training; road transport scheme; Lord Ashfield; Deputy Chairman Pick; d.o.b. 1911-02-16, railway work 1934-1976, London; Hastings; Lewisham. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

McKenna, David CBE

2000-11-09

footplate; cleaner; passed cleaner; fireman; passed fireman; driver; d.o.b. 1917-12-25, railway work 1936-1976, Hellifield; Garsdale; Dent; Blackburn; Long Preston; Northampton; Willesden;

William Chaffer

2001-03-12; 2001-03-29;

clerk; Royal Engineers; station master; goods agent; d.o.b. 1918-05-06, d. 2002-10-02, railway work 1936-1974, Albrighton; Gobowen; Lechlade; Chirk; Shrewsbury; Longmoor; Horbury; Thornliebank; Barton Stacey; Auchinwraith; Sudbury; Bombay; Calcutta Docks; Jalunda; New Delhi; Corwen; Longbridge; Newquay; Birmingham Snow Hill; Paddington; Bristol Temple Meads. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Windsor, Reginald George Wynn

2001-01-16; 2001-01-24

clerk; stationmaster's wife; Travelling Post Office; d.o.b. 1936, railway work 1955-1963, Helmsdale;

Sinclair, Anne Holmes

2001-03-28

stationmaster's wife. Lumphanan; Dornoch; Brora;

Sim, Jean

2001-03-27

footplate; engine cleaner; fireman; driver; shift foreman; area depot manager; train crew manager; motive power officer; assistant traction & train crew manager; exhibition trains; d.o.b. 1921-12-07, railway work 1921-1984, Weymouth; Bristol St Philips Marsh; Templecombe; Salisbury; Woking; Reading; Old Oak; Beckenham; Waterloo; Hither Green; London Victoria;

Perry, Ken A.

2001-03-13

permanent way; lengthman; ganger; d.o.b. 1935, railway work 1963-1995, Scotscalder; Altnabreac; Georgemas Junction; Wick;

Sinclair, Lewis

2001-03-28

traffic apprentice; Royal Engineers; assistant yard master; station master; chief trains clerk; area manager; marketing officer; passenger sales planning; passenger fares; chief passenger manager; retail manager; d.o.b. 1935-07-12, railway work 1958-1990, Barnsley; Wath Marshalling Yard; Darnall; Peterborough; Rotherham Yard; Spalding; Newcastle; Dundee; BRB Headquarters London;

Chamberlain, Alan

2001-04-17

clerk; invoices, goods; passenger refunds; claims work; travelling ticket bureau; efficiency commissions; d.o.b. 1929-10-15, railway work 1929-1973, Nine Elms Goods Depot; Wimbledon Goods; Kingston Goods; Waterloo; Woking; Marylebone. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Greenfield, Harry Thomas (Tom)

2001-06-26

Premium Apprentice at Doncaster Works 1949 to 1953; Doncaster locomotive Drawing Office 1956 to 1957; M&EE BRB HQ, Derby 1067 to 1993; 1970 joined Braking Section as Deputy to Brake Engineer BRB; became Brake Engineer BRB HQ in 1983; d.o.b 1932-12-05. railway work 1949 to 1994. BR; BSI; RIA; ORE; UIC; Class 40; Class 86; Class 25; EP brakes; cab ventilation; air conditioning; composition brake blocks; HST Power cars; EQ Brake; HST braking; Westinghouse; Davies and Metcalfe; Class 508; Private Owner Wagons; Class 313; air brake systems and condensation; blue spotting; pressure vessel design; BR modification procedure; Class 123; Doncaster works; Doncaster Carr Depot; Perth; Inverness; Bottesford; Darlington; Railway Technical Centre, Derby; Vienna Arsenal; Barry; Merseyside; Tyne and Wear; Motherwell; Sheffield; Copyhold Junction; Colwich; Walton on the Naze; Hull Dairycoates; Stourbridge Town; Stafford; Tunstead; Beattock; Paddington;

Nicholas, Brian

2003 and 2004

Served 4 year apprenticeship as a bricklayer with Henry Boot and Son; joined LNER as a bricklayer in 1939 and worked in this trade throughout his career as a tradesman, chargehand andfrom time to time as a supervisor in the Sheffield area; Army service 1942 to 1946;clearing River culverts under Sheffield Station; work on buildings, Royal Victoria Hotel, Sheffield, Wicker Arch, Neepsend Locomotive Shed; Aerocem pointing in Tunnels; colliery subsidence; reminiscences of Bosses, Albert Johnson, Brian Davis.

Linley, William Henry

2001-05-31

booking clerk; cartage; public affairs; passenger commercial; marketing assistant; acting passenger manager; exhibition trains; Merrymaker excursion trains; zonal fares; 1930-04-14, railway work 1944-1985, Brighton; Clapham Junction; Redhill; Tidworth; Woking College; Waterloo; Euston. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Hayler, Michael

2001-08-08

booking office clerk; motive power depot clerk; traffic apprentice; supervisor; grant aid statistical analysis; coaching and rolling stock assistant; carriage maintenance manager; d.o.b. 1938, railway work 1955-1994, Edinburgh; Newington; Duddingston; East Fortune; Shotts; Morningside Road; Waterloo Place; Craiglockhart; Waverley; Polmont; Dalry Road; Glasgow; Greenock. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

MacLean, A.A. (Sandy)

2001-07-04

signalbox lad; clerk; porter; traffic apprentice; goods depots; assistant yard master; assistant area manager; Total Operations Processing System (TOPS); coding; data; team; training; implementaion; project management; TRUST; d.o.b. 1937, railway work 1954-1994, Stcoport; Manchester; Nuneaton; London Euston; Toton, Derby; Watford; Watford; Willesden; Crewe; Aylesbury; East Anglia; Northeast region; Scottish region;

Spedding, Peter Hamilton

2001-01-22

Travelling Post Office; d.o.b. 1933-06-26, c. 1950s, Birmingham; Newcastle;

Crumpton, John Thomas

2001-04-02

footplate, cleaner, fireman; driving instructor; area inspector (signalling); chief area inspector; station manager; area terminals manager; terminals assistant; traffic manager; train crew manager; operations standards manager; service delivery manager; d.o.b. 1938-04-22, railway work 1954-1996, East Markham; Rampton; Maltby; Dinnington; Doncaster; Scarborough; Bridlington; Cleethorpes; Mablethorpe; Skegness; Ilford; King's Lynn; Retford; Gainsborough; March; Ely; Peterborough; Cambridge; London King's Cross;

Athey, David

2001-03-20; 2001-03-21;

footplate; fireman; driver; train crew inspector; Area Signals Inspector; Acting Operations Manager; West Coast Main Line; 1925-07-23, railway work 1942-1984, Bury; Manchester Lonsight; Watford; Bletchley. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Walker, Joseph

2001-05-15

clerk; military signalling; telegraph operator; d.o.b.1921-07-00, railway work 1943-1947, Kirkcaldy; Thornton. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Forrester, Helen Elizabeth (Betty)

2001-07-13

porter; clerk; controller; train planning; traffic costing; freight planning; BRB HQ; d.o.b. 1936, railway work 1952-1993, Newmacher; Kittybrewster; Fraserburgh; Aberdeen; Burntisland; Glasgow; Inverness; York. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Flett, Douglas

2001-08-21

civil engineer; Royal Engineers; civil engineering maintenance; d.o.b 1908-07-18, railway work 1924-1971, London; France; Far East, Burma; Longmoor Military Railway; Plymouth; Taunton; Derby; Purley, London; Great Western Railway (GWR);

Prior, Frank Joseph James

2001-02-15; 2001-03-08;

management trainee; Assistant Area Manager; Area Terminals Manager; Area Operations Manager; coal & mineral marketing; Area Manager; regional politics, Wales; privatisation; d.o.b. 1953, railway work 1975-2001, Dewsbury; Fort William; Mount Florida; Doncaster; Leicester; Nottingham; Cardiff; Thames & Chiltern; Thames Valley; Sweden;

McDonald, Roger

2001-02-26

footplate; bar lad; cleaner; firing; railway house; driver; learning; AWS; railway housing; freight; shunting; station supervisor; control of train crews; 1929-1994 Liverpool; Bootle Bank Hall Shed; Dingle; Sandhills; Watford; West Hampstead Edge Hill; Liverpool Lime Street; Birkenhead Central; Kirkdale; d.o.b. 1929-02-17, railway work 1944-1994. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Peacock, Thomas

2001-07-25

clerk; Control; dieselisation; Area Manager; royal train; reorganisation; incidents; junior clerk, Wadebridge, 1951; clerk; Plymouth, fog operations; controller; Assistant Station Master; Reading; steam/diesel transition; weather; GW/GC joint line; Southall; Reading; staff relations; safety; Reading; fatalities; Westbury; Area Manager; Shenfield; Area Manager, Waterloo; Lord Mountbatten's funeral; royal train; newspaper traffic; Waterloo headquarters; two-tier reorganisation; Clapham accident, inquiry; Hidden Report; consultancy, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Singapore, New Zealand; d.o.b. 1936-07-26 railway work 1951-1999. Wadebridge; Plymouth; Reading; Shenfield; Waterloo; Clapham. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Adams, Trevor G.

2000-08-04

draughtsman; drawing office; surveys; permanent way; Royal Engineers; civil engineering; Arthur Dean; tampers; payment by results; canteen facilities; work study; operating development; staff recruitment; branch line investigations, Barbara Castle; Br Beeching; reorganisations; Woking Staff College; freight; TOPS; planning systems; trade unions; Freightliner; computerisation; financial control; Price Waterhouse investigation; BRB management style; business sector management; Transaid; d.o.b. 1931-11-16, railway work 1948-1987, Bradford; Barnsley; Farnborough; Germany; Wakefield; Harrogate; York; Hull; Newcastle; Carlisle; Alston; Robin Hood's Bay; London; Watford; Stratford; Africa, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa;

Linney, Peter

2001-03-07

personnel; reorganisations; Beeching closures; privatisation; trade unions; BRB; father's railway career, passenger guard; pincer clerk, Leverton; clerical work; porter, trainside duties, signal lampman; clerical duties, Cottam, Torksey; fraud; goods and passenger work; conditions, hours, shifts; office furniture; village role of station master and clerk; probation period; LNER superannuation fund; relief clerk, Traffic Manager's office, Lincoln; Grimsby, Spalding, Nottingham, Newark; conditions; travel allowance; lodgings; digs with railway families; clerk, 1959, Traffic Manager's office; relief signalmen; signalboxes; personnel work, Lincoln District staff office; redundancies, Beeching closures; merging traffic management offices; amalgamation of regions; Head of Personnel, Sheffield District Manager's Office; staffing of area management schemes; resignalling schemes; Woodhead line closure; staff consultation; Sectional Councils; relationships with trade unions; promotion to Leeds District Manager's Office; 1983, reducing management tiers from three to two; elimination of Divisions; staff consultation; implementation; new regional organisation; services for traffic, civil engineering, signal engineering; divisional level work; close listing jobs; assisting Area Managers; Employment Relations Officer, York, 1986; introduction of driver-only operations; Employment Relations Manager, 1987; industrial tribunal, militant driver at King's Cross; elimination of regions; Paddington, Railway Operations Manager, business organisation; train crew agreement, guards for driving duties; racial discrimination, Paddington, safety; privatisation; Business Personnel Manager, BRB; trade union headquarters; negotiation machinery; joint consultation, Vessey Agreement, Footplate Staff Promotion and Transfer; retirement, recall; new operating companies; national TU meetings. d.o.b. 1940-12-03, railway work 1956-1994, Lincoln; Doncaster; Woodhead; Leeds; York. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Vessey, John

2000-10-04

footplate; relief running foreman; train crew supervisor; father, a village blacksmith and farrier; childhood; school; travel; early interest in railways; cinema car on express trains; leaving school aged 14; worked for father for 3 years, as could not join railway until 18 years old; railway entrance exam; medical; experiences as an engine cleaner; December 1940, became a passed cleaner; seniority; Second World War experiences; trade union membership; transport to work, housing, lodgings; 1944 became a regular fireman; memories as a fireman; fireman on Kings Cross route; first driving turns; Pullman cars, "blanked" off brakes; diesel training; practical training; steam, diesels, Deltics, HSTs; single manning; domestic life during footplate career; relief running foreman, relief panel; relief train crew supervisor; training at Crewe; reminiscences; 1922-11-24, railway work 1940-1985. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Day, Charles Reginald

2001-05-24

junior clerk; clerk; goods office; stationmaster; accounts; supervisor; d.o.b. 1932, railway work 1948-1993, Watten; Wick; Helmsdale; Brora; Achnashellach; Kingussie; Aviemore; Inverness; Thurso;

Blackstock, Angus

2001-03-26

clerk; Royal Engineers; BRB Headquarters Operations; preservation railways; Superintendent of the Line, Chairman, President, Bluebell Railway; d.o.b. 1908, railway work 1925-1997, West Grinstead; London Bridge; Redhill; Longmoor; Calcutta; London Liverpool Street; London Paddington; Bluebell Railway; Combe Bridge; Kingscote; Sheffield Park;

Holden, Bernard John (MBE)

2001-01-23

d.o.b. 1926-10-21, railway work 1943-1999, Topics: footplate cleaner, fireman, driver; trade union; local departmental committee; railway welfare; Places: Grimethorpe; Cricklewood Depot, London; Stafford; childhood, Grimsby, Hull, Sheffield; Second World War, evacuation, Sheffield Blitz; family railway background; cleaner, Grimethorpe, LMS; colour vision test; training; NUR; Cricklewood Depot, London, shortage of firemen; Midland Enginemen's Fund; transfer to Stafford, railway barracks; work with Armed Forces personnel, staff shortages; marriage, accommodation; conditions (weather, ice), Dore & Totley Tunnel; steam trains working in tunnels, conditions (illness); promotion to driver, 1960, conditions (pay); contrast between LMS and LNER railways; travel to work; trade union, transfer from NUR to ASLEF, 1955 strike; LDC representative; LDC work; social security tribunal; health and safety at work representative, 1974; suicides on the line; retirement, 1991. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Sharp, Cyril Herbert

2000-08-15; 2000-09-19

signal box lad; train recorder; porter; shunter; yard foreman; yard inspector; goods guard; trains inspector; traffic assistant; Second World War; d.o.b. 1913-04-09, railway work 1927-1978, Motherwell Moss End Yard; Flemington; Milnwood Junction; Braidwood; Carluke; Hamilton; Carstairs; Dalziel; Hamilton West Ross; Glasgow; Ravenscraig; Hunstanton; Beattock; Carlisle Kingmoor; Carlisle Upperby; Perth;

Gilchrist, Samuel John (Sam)

2001-04-04

goods clerk; booking office clerk; iron works traffic; coal trains; staff clerk; controller; Second World War; troop trains; left railway for teaching; RCTS; d.o.b. 1918-08-04, railway work 1934-1947, Nottingham Queen's Walk goods depot; Arkwright Street signalbox; Aslockton; Arkwright Street station; Basford; Kimberley; Stanton Iron Works; Nottingham Victoria;

Henshaw, Alfred

2001-04-18

apprentice moulder; foundry; trade union; foreman; family; machine shop, Swindon Works; apprentice moulder, iron foundry; brass foundry; foundry ventilation, heating; end of steam era, introduction of aluminium; electric furnaces, machine moulding; foundry sands; new techniques; trade union activities; improvements in ventilation; accidents; prehistoric creature found beneath floor; promotion, foreman, supervising fifty men; d.o.b. 1922-07-16, railway work 1937-1984, Swindon Works;

Fleetwood, John Edward

2000-09-19

Doncaster Wagon Shops and Plant Works, labourer, wood carrier, bogie underframe cleaner; childhood in Doncaster; school; father, a miner and council worker; Second World War memories; family of six people; mother died at an early age, housekeepers; 1944 volunteered for Army; first job as an apprentice signwriter; Army training, posted to India, 1944; demobilised in Derby, old job; worked in bakery; surface work at colliery; marriage; job with British Rail for more money; labourer at Doncaster wagon Shops; wood carrier at Doncaster wagon Shops; Beeching period, breaking up of wagons; cleaning fish wagons for other use; transfer to Doncaster for Plant Works; working conditions; promoted to chargehand; bogie cleaner; underframe cleaning in the DMU (Diesel Multiple Unit) shop; protective clothing; working with asbestos; 1987 made redundant; general comments on working conditions; d.o.b. 1926-12-01, railway work 1959-1987. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Barker, Roy

2001-04-30

typist, typing pool; Divisional Traffic Department; (husband) clerk; traffic control; special trains; d.o.b. 1926-10-30, railway work 1942-1948, Woking; Waterloo. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Adgie, Irene

2001-08-27

waitress, manageress, railway station restaurants, railway hotel restaurant; railway catering train crew, senior stewardess, acting bursar; Miss Rail Catering (ER); uniforms; superannuation; privatisation; GNER; d.o.b. 1939, railway work: -1973, Newcastle; King's Cross; Leeds; York. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Tuddenham, Myra

2001-07-19

clerk; traffic; stationmaster; Second World War; nationalisation; reorganisation; childhood; father's job, signalman; family; railway involvement; other industries; Mirfield, Low Moor; school; Golcar Church; childhood; first job, junior clerk, Golcar, travel to work, Golcar; coal from wagons; parcel traffic; other stations, Slaithwaite, Marsden; goods traffic; charging; tickets; auditors; Second World War call-up; wartime relief clerk; return to LMS; Lockwood, Meltham, Hunts Bank Control; YMO, Huddersfield; courtship; marriage; children; appointment as station master, Ravensthorpe; Darton; Station Master's duties; emergencies nationalisation; station master, Church Fenton; station house; coal sales; train working; Church Fenton, RAF, freight, cattle; freight, pigeons; staffing; modernisation; social life; organist; Pontefract, Batley; comparison of Church Fenton and Batley tunnels; Batley; traffic, parcels; closure of GN line; reorganisation; redundancy; move to Wakefield; move to Healey Mills; trade union activity; incident with cattle; reflections on railway career; d.o.b. 1921-07-26; railway work 1937-1982. Golcar; Huddersfield; Darton; Ravensthorpe; Church Fenton; Pontefract; Batley; Wakefield; Healey Mills, Leeds; London Midland & Scottish (LMS); Great Northern (GN). 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Lamb, Leslie

2000-08-25; 2000-08-28

railway housing; trade union; apprentice; journeyman; fitter; quality of work; injury; welfare club; d.o.b. 1926-09-12, railway work 1941-1990, Blaydon; Wylam; Allendale; Middlesbrough; Gateshead; Heaton; South Gosforth. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Hood, George

2001-08-03

workshop premium apprentice; fitter; building locomotives; Nigel Gresley; trade union; toolmaker; First Aid; social activities; d.o.b. 1923-08-01, railway work 1939-1952/1979-1986, Doncaster Plant Works. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Wright, Peter Wardman

2001-07-23

Born in Bristol 1928; started at Swindon Works 1944; Apprentice for 5 Years; Severn Tunnel Pumping Station; steam crane inspections; Laira Depot for training in Motive Power; Shed Master at Cardiff East Dock; Work Study in South Wales 1956; Assistant Running and Maintenance Officer, Newton Abbot 1959; Assistant Divisional Maintenance Engineer, Bristol 1963; Divisional Maintenance Engineer, Newcastle 1965; secondment to Transmark for EgyptianNational Railway; Joined Transmark permanently in 1978; work in Egypt, Malaysia, Canada,USA, Sudan; retired December 1983; retirement activities Ffestiniog Railway, Welsh Highland Railway, Stephenson Locomotive Society, WW2 Railway Study Group. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Clothier, Alan

2001-05-22; 2001-06-18

junior clerk; booking office; parcels; stationmaster; goods agent; traffic apprentice; traffic department, market research; area manager; planning department; traffic, sugar beet; Transmark; Eurostar; d.o.b. 1925-05-04, railway work 1940-1982, Kettering; Glendon; Rushton; Donnington; Llanbister Road; Peplow; Calvely; Whitchurch; Nottingham; Derby; Birmingham; Spon Lane; Soho; Paddington; Portsmouth; Waterloo; Bricklayers' Arms parcels depot; Victoria; Gatwick; Guildford; Melbourne, Australia; Iraq; Houston, USA; Hong Kong; Botswana; Zimbabwe. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Simmonds, Dennis

2001-07-06

civil engineer; Transmark; UIC; investment and planning; Channel Tunnel, sectorisation; consultancy; d.o.b. 1935-03-09, railway work 1957-1990. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Alexander, Nicholas John Bennett

2001-08-14

lad porter; cleaner; fireman; lodgings; hostels; redundancy; signalman; signalman trainer; d.o.b. 1937-09-13, railway work 1952-1963, Stratford-upon-Avon; Tyseley; Budbrook; Leamington; West Somerset Railway. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.

Brown, Gerry

2001-07-18

shunter; porter-signalman; passenger guard; signalman; leading railman; d.o.b. 1930-11-19, railway work 1948-1992, Helmsdale; Wick; Brora;

Sutherland, John

2001-03-27

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