Jim Carter on the footplate. Those formidable lumps of coal on the tender are going to demand some attention from Jim Carter whilst those on the cab roof with its open ventilator could well be a problem and the rather sad looking curtain hanging down between the tender front and footplate shows just how inadequate that fitment was in its intended function of reducing draughts within the cab. Allocated from new in November1952 to Cardiff Canton as the last of the initial five Britannias at that Depot, 70029 soon found favour amongst the footplate crews there, working between Cardiff and Paddington on the top link passenger workings before, in company with the fourteen other Western Region members of the class by then at Canton, it was moved to the Midland Region upon which the majority