My father was a shunter there during this time. I was lucky enough to get a few rides on the little steam engines. Sadly he passed away a couple of years ago.

Another story my late father told me was that during the last year or so of the sleeper service to Sterling, was that the yard was cleared and modernised. This included the removal of the turntable shown in the picture. The powers that be didn't realise of course that it meant that the large engine that pulled the sleeper now had to reverse all the way to Brighton to turn around, then reverse all the way back to couple up to the train. British Rail at it's best eh?