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My Encounter with the King

by ageconcerndurham1

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ageconcerndurham1
People in story:听
John loughlin
Location of story:听
Chester-le-Street
Background to story:听
Army
Article ID:听
A2473661
Contributed on:听
29 March 2004

This story was submitted with the permission of the author, John Loughlin, on behalf of Age Concern Durham County.

I used to be in the 91热爆 Guard watching the Railway Station at Chester-le-Street.I used to do day shift and night shift.These shifts lasted for 12 hours.
One night the train pulled in,someone left the train in the dark.I shouted "Who goes there".There was no response to this cry and the person was hastly shuffled away.This person stuttered a bit.It this time i believed it was our King, King George.
However,my colonel denied that a train had even stopped at the station.Even though i knew i was not going mad as i had definetly seen a train stop at the station.
Around twenty years later i saw my colonel once more, whilst performing in the operatics soceity.At this time i brought up this subject again.However, this time my colonel agreed that i was right and a train carrying the King had passed through and stopped at Chester-le-Street Station.He didnt tell me because it was a special train and he was passing through the station on his way back from Scotland.The colonel therefore did not want news of the King passing through the station to get out.This was because he feared that fifth columns would get hold of the news and this may result in the bombing of the station.

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