as a coulsdon and redhill driver all be it 25 years ago boards or sticks meant nothing at all not in the vocabulary
In Midlandland they were always "pegs", although a distant signal was always a "back-un". Hround shunt signals were (and still are) known as "dollys", although head north and it became a "Tommy Dodd".
Hancocks Half Hour fans will be smiling at Platelayer.
To hear an undergroud driver say "sticks off" is quite common, anyone know when the last stick existed on the Underground.
I call them all Train Managers now.
Isn't that still valid, meaning either "peak" or "come back another day"?
That's a good one.
I always thought switch was an Americanism.
Very good. I think that confirms it's an archaic usage, publishing dates being 1611 and 1549 respectively.
The term period return is used to describe a ticket whose return portion is valid for a month. That could be any of a wide number of different ticket types, e.g. Anytime Return, Off-Peak Return, Super Off-Peak Return, Anytime Short Return. The term "open return" is still in fairly widespread use to mean this, and still has "official" usage in several booking sites to refer to when the return portion is not booked for a specific day or itinerary (even though, confusingly, this may still result in being sold a kind of Day Return!). This is despite the term "open return" having a specific and deprecated meaning, the old form of what is now an Anytime Return.
As the railway still measures distance in miles and chains, it would seem reasonable.
Glasgow Subway...
Was it on the Epping-Ongar line, inherited from BR?
By no means always known as the Subway, even officially. It has been referred to for a long time as the Underground as well, sometimes styled the old London way and capitalised as UndergrounD on official signage etc. Until recently they didn't seem to have a particular corporate style, the various signs were all done differently.
Glasgow District Subway or Glasgow Subway Railway 1896-1936
A Point=2 switches (the point blades) and a crossing. But of course there are other crossings, for example as used for diamond crossings, where there are no point blades - unles it's a switched crossing! Is it an attempt by NR to try and make clearer to the public the complexity of trackwork in some way?
Well there is still a Railtrack sign on the bridge just before Chippenham station.
<Chuckle> Sad to say.
) use departure screens. 
