We had some really exciting times, expecially on the Sunday during jun T wont with a special train into Yorkshire. I: was a train of line officials and consisted of just the loco and two saloons. When we rounded a curve into one station we raw a large platform truck had been left hanging half over the track. Tt was too late to pull up so we rushes along and chanced knocking it clea and fortunately for the saloon peop his was exactly what happened Another our chaps crashed through a pair of level crossing gates and although the smash cut ihis vacuum pipe and pulled him up no damage was done to the train Jand after an improvised repair he got home 0. K.
The sequel to all this trouble is proving a bad pill for the railway employees, as they are all on short time including the stof men who were on strike. Holidays have been suspended and many other privileges withdrawn,
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