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And when that was offered as an explanation during an interview the interviewer said "so your saying that it was the wrong sort of snow" which has passed into folklore
When I was a student at Manchester University in the 1960's the Railway Society regularly arranged brakevan trips on normal freight services. An extra brake van, normally unfitted, was placed at the rear of the train. BR worked out the mileage travelled and charged the appropriate first class...
My understanding is that the Great Western/BR western region requirement was that if a smaller engine was attached as a pilot it had to be coupled inside the larger engine. This was folowing a derailment at Loughor in 1904 when the smaller pilot engine derailed and was thought to have been...
I remember being shown round one at Longsight circa 1966 on a Manchester University Railway Society visit. From memory we were told that the guards had refused to use them and they were being disposed of. I seem to remember that they had cooking and washing facilities and we suggested that they...
People still take no notice of the zonemarkings on the platform. In Cardif when trains are shown as stopping in zones 1-5 on platform 3 passengers still wait in the middle of the platform(zones 6-8) and rush forward when the train stops beyond them.