David Young
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I am trying to find a book which existed in the late 1970s and whose content I can only recall from some cartoons it contained. The book was about branch lines and other rural railways. If anybody can identify the title, I would be most grateful. Here is what I remember about some of the cartoons:
A signalman has closed one gate to block a train and another to block the traffic. The caption is something along the lines of 'That'll teach them to parp and whistle at me'.
A ganger, carrying a scythe, is running alongside a train, the last carriage of which has been flattened by a rockfall. The driver says 'Whaddya mean lanzlide?' or something like that.
A train is being held up by a chicken in the middle of the track. 'Sorry about that Lunnon connection of yours, but old Bessie here often lays a double-yolker' the porter says.
A woman has walked along the running boards from the end of the train to the locomotive. She says 'Cooee! There's a hot axle box under my compartment', with smoke billowing out of the last carriage.
At a station turned into a house, with the track long lifted, a ghost train comes over the vegetable patch where the track used to be. It has something like 'Down with Doctor Beeching' on its headboard and the house owner says something about it being great for the cabbages.
A signalman has closed one gate to block a train and another to block the traffic. The caption is something along the lines of 'That'll teach them to parp and whistle at me'.
A ganger, carrying a scythe, is running alongside a train, the last carriage of which has been flattened by a rockfall. The driver says 'Whaddya mean lanzlide?' or something like that.
A train is being held up by a chicken in the middle of the track. 'Sorry about that Lunnon connection of yours, but old Bessie here often lays a double-yolker' the porter says.
A woman has walked along the running boards from the end of the train to the locomotive. She says 'Cooee! There's a hot axle box under my compartment', with smoke billowing out of the last carriage.
At a station turned into a house, with the track long lifted, a ghost train comes over the vegetable patch where the track used to be. It has something like 'Down with Doctor Beeching' on its headboard and the house owner says something about it being great for the cabbages.
. Apart from the cartoons it's full of railway puns and jokes as well. Mine was retained downstairs when most of my collection went up into the attic.