• (A miserable old git)!

      Not see 80, or 82 again, But advise the younger to slow down a bit and to think twice! To drive a long distance after a days work to nod off for a few seconds is scary but true! Coupling a train is to be for one more cautious than to uncouple, Your engines coming back on your train, It kisses the buffers to compress! The strongest man alive couldn’t budge them buffers! In a thousand replays you only need one moment of other things on your mind? I would guess more incidence would happen on shed? A fireman re boards a moving engine, His foot misses the bottom step! His engine has a very big following tender? I say no more! I once spoke of a far away station where i would walk on my knees on painful track ballast directing my driver while looking for any movement of the prostrate soul i was releasing! I can think of many an incident! Memory comes back years later! Only this morning I saw the 1965 version of the Cardiff Blue pullman! A far away station near London, we cross fast lines for working back, ‘Buck up’ says driver! ‘Train coming’! A blue blur went by 100 MPH Close behind me? I spose things happen! We’re all still here! So maybe this old git should lighten up a bit! Have a beer! I’m not taking the new Electric bike out this day! Formula ones starting! Norris needs one more podium!

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