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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2008 10:29:33 GMT
Mention has been made on this 'ere forum of the ways in which train crews would make the tea 'on the go' and the motorman would leave the tea for his guard.
Can someone please expand on how this was done - how did the guard pass the tea back to his motorman without waking the length of his train?
I've seen T/Ops in the 1980s using those enamel tea cans; does anyone still use them now?
Thanks!
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Post by 21146 on Dec 28, 2008 11:49:17 GMT
Mention has been made on this 'ere forum of the ways in which train crews would make the tea 'on the go' and the motorman would leave the tea for his guard. Can someone please expand on how this was done - how did the guard pass the tea back to his motorman without waking the length of his train? I've seen T/Ops in the 1980s using those enamel tea cans; does anyone still use them now? Thanks! If the Guard made it you had to meet mid-way on the platform. If the Motorman did, the same procedure could be used, or he could stop short and drop the can off at the rear of the platform for the Guard to collect. I didn't like the second option fearing someone would kick the can over - that never happened but I bet it would now. There was also a more 'social' aspect in meeting mid-way and to me it was continuing a heritage born of tramways and steam railways. By the time I left the trains in 1992 the white enamel cans like mine were already in a minority, replaced by red enamel 'coffee pots' or, worse still, plastic insulated mugs (yuk!). |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2008 11:50:25 GMT
Happy xmas and new year to all.
"Back in the day", the tea cans were left on the platform for the guard at certain stations, the driver would pull out slowly until the can was level with the guard. The guard would then grab the tea can and give the driver an extra bell to say the can had been successfully retrived.
At Golders Green, because the mess-room is at the north end of the platform, if there was a spare driver or guard, they would hand the guard at the back of the train the tea can instead.
The tea cans are a rarety today, and I don't know of any driver who uses them.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2008 12:26:08 GMT
The last time I saw one being used on LU was at Acton Town (Picc) in 1984.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2008 11:28:34 GMT
The last time I saw one being used on LU was at Acton Town (Picc) in 1984. And one I/O still faithfully uses his at Acton Town. I must admit the tea from a can seems more flavoursome than out of a mug..or even bone china! They are still available via the internet, but I have a suspicion that they are of a very thin tinny material. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2008 4:08:04 GMT
Tea cans disapeared with OPO. There used to be a Guard who had his own business going around canteens on the combine selling Tea cans, badges and equipment bags.
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Post by tubeprune on Dec 31, 2008 7:23:42 GMT
I think we had this discussion before. It covered tea making locations and sharing procedures.
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Post by 21146 on Dec 31, 2008 16:38:52 GMT
Tea cans disapeared with OPO. There used to be a Guard who had his own business going around canteens on the combine selling Tea cans, badges and equipment bags. Yes too bad he got an ex-employee to cover for him on the back so he could pitch his stall at the Easter Parade in Battersea Park! |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2008 16:55:21 GMT
Tea cans disapeared with OPO. There used to be a Guard who had his own business going around canteens on the combine selling Tea cans, badges and equipment bags. Yes too bad he got an ex-employee to cover for him on the back so he could pitch his stall at the Easter Parade in Battersea Park! Yeah I remember that. Lost his job and business in one go. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2008 17:37:19 GMT
It must be nice to be able to drink tea on the go. On our stuff (big American horrible things) we can only drink tea at low speed otherwise we end up wearing it!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2009 0:41:31 GMT
It must be nice to be able to drink tea on the go. On our stuff (big American horrible things) we can only drink tea at low speed otherwise we end up wearing it! We do suffer similar problems particularly when travelling over points  |
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Post by ruislip on Jan 1, 2009 2:56:10 GMT
Tea cans disapeared with OPO. There used to be a Guard who had his own business going around canteens on the combine selling Tea cans, badges and equipment bags. Did he do this while concurrently employed with the Underground, or did this occur after he was made redundant with the conversion of lines to OPO? |
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Post by ruislip on Jan 1, 2009 17:32:16 GMT
I think we had this discussion before. It covered tea making locations and sharing procedures. Do you have a link to this? |
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Post by roythebus on Feb 20, 2009 23:16:38 GMT
Aaahhhhhh, making the tea, an old railway tradition that has sadly almost died out. I still had my tea can until recently.
When I started on the KESR a couple of years ago, the trusty (and rusty) tea can from 1973 was brought out of retirement and gave me another season's service.
However, towrds the end of the year, working on the P class 738, I made a can of tea at Tenterden and got back on the loco and noticed half a can of tea, my boots getting wet...
AAAArrrghh, there was a hole in the bottom of the tea can. So, goodbye to an old friend that had been with me most of my railway career spanning the district, Met, BR at Rugby, Kings Cross, Addiscombe, Waterloo, the Isle of wight and the KESR. I suppose really I should have presented it to the LT Museum!
Somewhere I've got an 8mm film of a BR standard tank at Olympia working the Kenny Belle in 1967, the fireman swinging the tea can over his head, the lid coming off and tipping hot tea all over him. lol.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2009 6:33:52 GMT
Tea cans disapeared with OPO. There used to be a Guard who had his own business going around canteens on the combine selling Tea cans, badges and equipment bags. Did he do this while concurrently employed with the Underground, or did this occur after he was made redundant with the conversion of lines to OPO? He did this whilst working on LU and at times when he should have been working. |
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