Other things railways did

Oxonhutch

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Re: Other things railways did

« Reply #30 on: October 05, 2018, 15:28:21 »

In a reversal of the normal fortune of the day, the Lancaster Canal Company took a lease on the nascent, parallel, and freshly bankrupt Lancaster & Preston Railway - now part of the West Coast Mainline.


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Witham Bobby

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Re: Other things railways did

« Reply #31 on: October 09, 2018, 16:14:46 »

At Worcester, there was once a works that made and supplied sheets (tarpaulins) for wagons

There must have been Railway laundries, somewhere. Bed linen for sleeper services, that kind of thing. When I was a signalman, we'd send off each week whatever dusters and hand towels (roller kind) we'd used in the 'box, and receive back the previous week's laundered ones.


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Re: Other things railways did

« Reply #32 on: October 09, 2018, 16:33:45 »

That sort of thing was part of the BTH^» BritishTransport Hotels as far as I know.


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« Reply #33 on: October 09, 2018, 22:21:52 »

There was a railway laundry in Swindon! It's where the antimacassars were cleaned - see earlier thread....


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