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Reply on 61935 crossing Hessle Road.
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4 months ago
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Interio of Hessle Road Signal Box. Wooden Floor Scrubbed at least once a week. Handles to signal/points levers burnished twice a week along with all the brass instruments. Windows washed weekly inside and out (lousey on a sunny day)Coal buckets filled daily to keep two fires burning, all done by the signal lad who had his other duties to do also had to learn all the rules,regulations etc so he could then go on to be a Signalman.We worked three…
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Reply on 61935 crossing Hessle Road.
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4 months ago
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OPENING the gates HESSLE ROAD SIGNAL BOX 1956. SIGNALMAN and SIGNAL LAD, what great titles they gave us in those days, today it would be Traffic Controller and Trainee Controller. We did cause a few delays to traffic and recieve many a gesture from motorist’s.
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Reply on 61935 crossing Hessle Road.
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4 months ago
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BobM,Have read your comments on The Railway Institute "Dairycoates Club" I worked in the Hessle Road Box can you recall a block of shops before Hawthorne Avenue. In the 50’s I remember an old lady every night come out of one of the houses with an enamel jug, go into the club for draught beer to consume at home. Most of the people who lived in those houses were platelayers (Track Maintainence Staff)and we would have to call them out during…
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