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(To couple is to connect)!
You see some mighty odd coupling methods this day? Like the super voyager of Derby! Wouldn’t fancy coupling that! Back in the day, I would go straight to the vacuum pipes! With an engine coming on to our coaches from the rear! Or my driver not destroying our vacuum, I would prevent something silly happening! Snatch that ribbed pipe at an angle and pull and you could destroy any vacuum! Then just stand and relax! For a wonderful Hamlet cigar advert! But my Swindon, or up that area somewhere story of long ago was when we hit someone? He got dragged because i couldn’t find him under our coaches? (it was dark) But he was under our cab! I broke vacuum, and parted our steam heating pipes! without shutting its valves? Burnt my face! Uncoupled and waved my driver on until our very long tender cleared him! Making sure he was clear of the tenders wheels of course! (No arms flopping out)! So i cut my knees on the track ballast! And have a burnt face as well! Just another day on the railway! And how NOT to uncouple!
