contrex
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Some years ago I came across a video on Youtube called 'Sarah Siddons Cab ride Sept 2011', by someone called 'Chenhusky1' and I noticed the rather spiffy gloves the driver was using. I couldn't decide whether he was using these because the controller was hard on the hands, or out of a desire not to get electrocuted. I did also once see on the TV a retired former Met driver who described how he had tried to operate a bare knife switch in the cab of one of these locos, and he said his fingers must have strayed past the wooden handle onto live metal, because the next thing he knew, he was coming round on the floor amid a strong smell of burnt hair. Any ideas?