More tales of the old railwaymen

This follow-up to "Tales of the Old Railwaymen" features ten more railwaymen all in their eighties or even nineties - looking back on a lifetime workingn the railways, with a wealth of tales. These are memories of a long-lostra before World War II, when you could still follow quaint professions likender-shunter, wielding your 7-foot-long wooden shunting pole, or Frencholisher - lovingly polishing the wood-veneered interiors of Great Westernailway carriages - and when railway clerks stood in rows at sloping woodenesks appending "Your humble, obedient servant" in quill-pen to the bottom ofvery company letter.;Here are stories of the Midland and Great Northernailway - known to its staff as the "Muddle and Get Nowhere Railway" - whererivers were not unknown to stop their trains near Sandringham to helphemselves to the odd rabbit from a poacher's snare, and of young engineleaners' pranks that involved blowing up the cabin stove by dropping aetonator down its chimney. And, above all, here is the subtle, hot andweaty, and even loving art of firing and driving a great steam locomotive,