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I was evacuated from Walthamstow in September 1939. We met at School and I can remember going from Southfields Station to Woking. When we got there, we found a long line of buses waiting to pick us up. I think they were London red double deckers. Anyway, they filled up and moved off. Our school was due to get on two busses, about forty or fifty boys on each one.

We stopped at Maidenhead, only to find no-one was expecting us. We had no idea what to do or where to go. We finally got billeted, and the local school emptied their woodwork shop, and that became our school for two years.

Meanwhile the rest of the school was in Woking. There are a couple of areas in Woking beginning with 鈥淢ay鈥�, and it is thought the bus drivers, not being local, just got confused! Anyway, it took them about two years to get us back together.

While in Maidenhead, we were next to the Great Western mainline, and that鈥檚 what started my interest in trains. I met a local boy called Fred Poynter, who was also into trains, and who became a friend while I was there.

Some fifty years later, I retired to Norfolk, and met him again here on the railway!

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