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Hello Steamfan and welcome to the Railway Forum. I was a fireman right from when I first joined the railways. I had to learn to fore on the local shunt on Garratts. We had 3 shifts on the shunt 07:00 t0 15:00, 15:00 to 23:00 and 23:00 to 07:00. We did a week on each shift with 2 days off between. They were known as a Red and a Blue rest day. You could be called out to work on a Blue and were paid at double time. They could not call us out on a Red, it was against the law. We had 47 days annual leave + 6 days a year when we could report not fit for duty. We also had a leu day for each public holiday we worked.
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The Old Git, Syd
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