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I think when we were nights shed turning(not literaly!)setting the engines for the morning
shifts to come and prepare,as locojo will rember at Enfield there where usualy 12 or more
engines in steam but they where never silent, dispite the steam pressure being low they
would gurgle, tick,hiss,in fact as a young passed cleaner who had to keep the fires in and the water topped up, it could be very scarey,on your own dark and often the engines would be way out of the shed. Coal on another engine would drop onto the cab floor with a rattle or you would hear imaginery footsteps.A quick dash to the shanty to recover with a strong cup of tea to pluck up courage for the next trip round the engines.Rember most of us whereonly 14 or15 years old at the time, but those engines
certainly made noises.
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