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Title: Memories of Weymouth? Post by: grahame on November 28, 2009, 19:10:55 "Where a train proceeds along a public highway, it must be preceeded by a man (with a flag?) to warn road traffic and pedestrians of its approach".
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/manifotrain.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/manif.jpg) Title: Re: Memories of Weymouth? Post by: eightf48544 on November 29, 2009, 10:28:58 I remember the Weymouth tramway well.
When I first started at Waterloo SW Division in a section called Rules and General we dealt with the traffic side of signalling and rules and regulations plus other assorted matters. Two places had the most entries in the filing system. Weymouth and Suningdale each involved cars! Entries for each were: Weymouth "train hit car." The grocles could never understand that even a Mark 1 coach swings out as far as the hatching on a curve. Suningdale car hit gates. In those days they were swing gates across the wide straight A30 (no M3). We could never prove the shunters at Weymouth had a sweep to see who could hit the most cars and get away with it. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |