Springs Branch
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A quip from a cab ride video I remember from years ago (it was on VHS tape, which sort of dates it).
Scene is in the cab of a Sprinter, having left Manchester Piccadilly and heading for Buxton.
The driver was quite talkative and a bit of a raconteur, chatting constantly to the video camera operator.
The topic was the daily trials and tribulations of getting your train through the block signalling bottleneck around Stockport.
After recounting an anecdote that the signalmen in the two Stockport 'boxes had a big row some years ago, and have refused to talk to each other ever since, the train ambled towards Heaton Norris Junction, AWS warning buzzer sounding in the background.
Driver: "Did you know, when the Scots invaded England in the 18th Century, this is as far as they got"
Video guy: "Is that right?"
Driver: "Aye. They couldn't get past Stockport No. 1 and No. 2"
Scene is in the cab of a Sprinter, having left Manchester Piccadilly and heading for Buxton.
The driver was quite talkative and a bit of a raconteur, chatting constantly to the video camera operator.
The topic was the daily trials and tribulations of getting your train through the block signalling bottleneck around Stockport.
After recounting an anecdote that the signalmen in the two Stockport 'boxes had a big row some years ago, and have refused to talk to each other ever since, the train ambled towards Heaton Norris Junction, AWS warning buzzer sounding in the background.
Driver: "Did you know, when the Scots invaded England in the 18th Century, this is as far as they got"
Video guy: "Is that right?"
Driver: "Aye. They couldn't get past Stockport No. 1 and No. 2"