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22nd February 1986

Class 109 Trinidad Wickham Port of Spain 22 February 1986. In the early '80s I worked as a Property Manager for British Airways and was sent to all sorts of exotic places. On a visit to Trinidad I came across these two Wickham half coach front ends welded back to back which had been used as a café in one of the outer suburbs of the capital Port of Spain. Along with some others dumped behind the old railway station downtown I reckon at that time there were enough parts surviving from all four coaches E50415, 50419 and E56170, 56174 exported in late 1961 but I am unable to say which ones were which and they almost certainly won't exist now. A letter from me along with this picture was published in Rail Magazine in issue 337, August 12-25 1998. Alistair Ness.

22nd February 1986

Class 109 Trinidad Wickham Port of Spain 22 February 1986. In the early '80s I worked as a Property Manager for British Airways and was sent to all sorts of exotic places. On a visit to Trinidad I came across these two Wickham half coach front ends welded back to back which had been used as a café in one of the outer suburbs of the capital Port of Spain. On mentioning this to the local manager he said he knew of some others dumped behind the old railway station downtown. On my next visit on 14 May 1986 he drove me there and I will later be uploading pictures of these (it'll be a while though as I work though my negatives next). A Rastafarian family was living in one of them and the man kindly unscrewed and gave me the two original aluminium lot plates LOT No 30289 which I still have. Alistair Ness.

1980

This was Port of Spain in Trinidad in 1980 - found purely by chance. The taxi driver couldn’t understand why I got him to stop so I could take a photo of what to him was a roadside cafe. Andrew Middleton.

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