89-year-old revisits Flying Scotsman in Peterborough

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00:00Peter Westerman, 89 years old. I joined the railway when I was 14 in 1950 in Leicester

00:11and my first job was as a cleaner at the Great Central and from a cleaner I became a fireman

00:19and then many many firing experiences, some with a Flying Scotsman on the express trains

00:29to London or Manchester or wherever and they were the happiest days of my life and I still

00:36remember them all and they are part of my life today and to come here today, to go on

00:45the footplate was seriously to me like being in heaven and the people here are so friendly,

00:53they're so happy, to me I'm so happy it is beyond belief and I bless everybody here.

01:03I'm going to jump in the pie box now.

01:12That's quite it Marjorie, thank you everybody.

01:16Are you taking over for a little while yet?

01:19It's only a minute, it's only a minute.

01:23Alright folks, these things folks I mean they're very good but I'm a nuisance.

01:32That's it.

01:34I'll have a tissue.