1939 Freight Trains
 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...STRK:MESELX:IT

Anyone know much about this??

Regards

It seems to me a document which shows the passing times of goods trains when that train was running to time.
On a route there would be a signal box,s shown where a report would be sent to control about the progress of that train.
At this time all goods trains would have been loose coupled and just ploding along.
If the train was delayed then those timings would be out of the window.
Knowing traincrew all they wanted was 12+ hours every day.
Under BR we had such docments but not many crews took any notice, as again 12 hours+ ruled the day.
The motto was no use rushing (NUR)
Thats how I was brought up on the big iron road.
The record for one job at a pit was 18 hours to unload 18 HAA's at South Kirby just after the miners strike ended. What use was a bit of paper, you got done when you got done.
(If you want the full story of this 18hours then I can send it to the forum.)

Thank you, and very interesting!

Will be interesting to see what it makes, Not that it probably has much Money value, but for interest it would be good to have in my collection!

Railway Mad

Hello
 

Welcome to the forum Railway Mad. I have some similar papers in my collection, always intresting read.

Proper trains on a proper railway.

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