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We got a lift in a brake van one day and no sooner had the guard told us to 'hang on this driver is a right one' he was thrown into the stove and against a desk falling to the floor. The driver had just put on the power and not eased away so the van lurched away at some speed. At our destination he stopped in a similar way causing the van to jolt violently and bounce back to a sudden stop the guard winding the brake on to stop it rolling forwards and backwards. The guard said he was OK but sure must of hurt him. The kettle was held on top of the stove with wire tied round the handle and chimney even so a good bit of scalding water flew out of it. Most drivers were gentle on the power and brake but that one sticks in my mind.

@@cedarcam Great witness testimony 👍. I think footplate crew and goods guards were ‘breeds apart’: totally different career paths for starters and footplate crew always working together and guards alone. Even held in loops, the guard waiting for a passing passenger train chose to stay in his brake van where we lads would chat with him. The walls of the brake were sticky yellow probably tarred up a bit by smoke from the stove. Not a bad ‘office’ stood still but with the driver you describe and a switchback road… pretty hellish. Yet the rules are clear: guards are in charge of the train, not drivers! That driver should have shown more consideration and respect!

@@stephensmith799 Yes they were very different or breeds apart as you say. As a trainee we had no van to get us out on maintenance so unbelievably, looking back today, we used the bus or got a freight train to stop and give us a lift. Some drivers said get in the brake some get in the rear cab and best of all some said to ride up front with them. You could see the difference in the way some drove and were friendly whilst others were not so gentle. If they had ridden in a brake van they would perhaps think again, even with a gentle start on a long unfitted freight the van gave a jolt as it began to move. Many find it strange when you tell them the guard is in charge and still applies today where they have them. It makes sense though as the guard is the one who historically applied brakes and checked things were loaded correctly before allowing the train to depart, so is buried deep in the railways history. Overall they were happy days and to most the railway was like a huge family until privatisation. We would get help from each other in those days.

@@cedarcam It is great to hear the voice of experience. Thanks, Although it is strange, I can just about cope with automated train control eg the Victoria Line and parts of the Elizabeth Line. But I can’t accept being on trains that have no Guard. The scope for offences is very great and we definitely need Guards to keep us safe. There was a Guard on South Western with a great name badge. It read ‘Daniel Gooch’! I said he had a ‘great name for a railwayman!’ He explained that SWT had ‘ordered guards to wear name badges. However, when I asked “does it HAVE to be my name?” the guy checked his instructions and admitted that it didn’t say anything about that. So I decided on “Daniel Gooch”!’ Some KZfaqrs won’t know that Daniel Gooch was the GWR’s brilliant chief mechanical engineer who was designing locomotives that could exceed 60mph from 1837 while still in his ‘twenties! IK Brunel’s locos were failures because of his obsession with low piston speeds. They were big and feeble monstrosities. The joke was that Brunel’s locos needed double-heading even running light. … doubtless a bit of an exaggeration! Many ex Railway staff at all levels have explained in detail why Major’s privatisation of the railway was an expensive disaster, but made a few individuals very wealthy very quickly. The system is a dog’s dinner.

@@stephensmith799 It saddens me that all the old boxes are closing and the huge operations centres are taking over, but I always say the railway has to progress we cannot have the biggest heritage railway in the world. It was a strange feeling the first time I went by Eurostar not seeing any signals once we joined HS1 and the next signal we passed outside Brussels. Automated control could be used all over the railway but there should always be someone who can take control and someone to assist in evacuation, the idea of Glasgow's subway running with no staff at all is scary. Docklands is fully automated but there is someone on the train to deal with anything that may go wrong Yes Guards are very important and certainly should be kept on all trains. That was a great idea by the guard. Before St Pancras became the international station it is today many records were kept under the station in the beer cellars, these were moved to the National Records Group and one day we were shown round, they had pulled out some of the historic drawings of bridges viaducts tunnels and some buildings amongst them were some drawn by or signed by the great engineers Danial Gooch, I K Brunel and George Stevenson. I could of spent hours in there looking at documents. I said at the time Network Rail could make money out of having some of these available to view on line Model makers and historians would pay good money to access things like that. It is a shame we did not get Brunel's broad gauge as standard gauge, Imagine what the trains would be like today if that had happened, there would be hardly anything the railways could not carry and speeds would be higher with the stability. Even back then Brunel had demonstrated how smooth his trains were compared to the 4'8 1/2'' ones. As for his locos yes I read they were under powered. Running the railways since privatisation has cost far more than it ever did under BR The public were conned into thinking it would be more efficient and cheaper. Everything became so fragmented it made even a simple job into a long drawn out procedure. With BR there were a lot of things wrong but a lot of very good things as well. The idea of Network Rail taking more of the operation is a good one. At first Railtrack only owned the track and signalling and it was contractors who maintained things, there were a lot of problems and two major accidents which brought about big changes as Network Rail was formed and brought the maintenance in house again

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I still haven’t got round to adding a coupling to the other end of that brake van

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Thank you! They’ve been there a few months but I don’t always get them in shot 🤣

This smaller layout took a couple of months

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Is that something going on in the fiddle yard?

Probably me bashing around in the background