| 1. | Banking engines were kept at Ilfracombe, to assist when required.
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| 2. | A banking engine was kept there to assist freight trains up the hill.
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| 3. | Time to fire up those banking engines.
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| 4. | Banking engines were also used on occasions.
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| 5. | The cable haulage continued in operation until 31 January 1908, when banking engines took over.
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| 6. | It is a place where a banking engine is often required to help trains up the hill.
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| 7. | Mortehoe station provided a number of sidings for stabling the banking engines after assisting with the climb.
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| 8. | Eventually it was decided that the incline could be worked by a system of'banking engines '.
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| 9. | This was used by banking engines based at Brimscombe that assisted freight trains up the 1 in 75 Sapperton Bank beyond Chalford.
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| 10. | The Midland had also found it more efficient to use smaller, less fuel hungry locos, simply adding pilots or banking engines as necessary.
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