Interesting film of jobs on the railway in 1946 "The Railwaymen"

[Tim Watts]

advise skipping to 2:18 to avoid the lame introduction (unless you are a fan of "Old Music Hall"!)

Very intersting film though - and extremely good quality - covers a range of careers (and career progression) on the railway. Sad that such industry no longer exists - well, not as a single entity where one could join right after leaving school and if able and diligent, work up through the ranks with potential for crossover. Maybe that's the rosy specs - I don't know ;->

But look out for the Station Master running over the tracks instead of using the adjacent footbridge - 3rd rail system too as far as I could see!

[Tim Watts]

Bollocks - meant to post that to uk.railway.

Sorry 'bout that...

[John Williamson]

No problem. :-)

The related videos may take me a while to watch...

My first job after I left college was playing trains, errr, sorry, working as a shunter for British Rail.

[S Viemeister]

Interesting, though!

[ARWadsworth]

I would not have realised that it was OT had you not said.

[hugh]

In message , Tim Watts writes

I meet a chap out walking the dogs most mornings. He struggles along with his bad back (collapsed discs) and aching hips and knees. At fifteen he was given a job on the railways as a fireman shovelling 2 tons of coal, all day every day - at 15!!

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

No probs. I love that sort of shit.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

I can't help thinking that train bodies with contrasting doors make the doors look as if they've been salvaged from a breakers yard, especially that first one with the green doors. Shades of my old Sunbeam, which was sound as a pound, but through bumps and corrosion had nearly every panel a different colour, courtesy of the local breakers.

[The Natural Philosopher]

A FrankenCar!

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

I was way ahead of the VW Harlequin, I can tell you.

[Tim Streater]

Would you say these two are related?