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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.)
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