If You Could Visit any Pipe Shop...

[SmokeyJock]

I got a job in Perth (railway, track and drainage engineering). I did drop into Rattray's on occasion, but mostly for unusual cigarettes like Sobranie Black Russian, Sobranie Cocktail and Sullivan Private Stock.

big respect to the RMT!

 

[BingBong]

big respect to the RMT!

Ah, I didn't qualify for RMT, or ASLEF obviously. No, I was in TSSA who were "meek", I would say.

 

[SmokeyJock]

Ah, I didn't qualify for RMT, or ASLEF obviously. No, I was in TSSA who were "meek", I would say.

nothing worse than a meek union, I've probably been on many train journeys that will have benefited from your work back then

 

[BingBong]

nothing worse than a meek union, I've probably been on many train journeys that will have benefited from your work back then

Ah, most of the projects went ok. I had one at Longforgan that was a shocker though lol.

A mishandled JCB or a poorly marked signalling trunk... every signal between Perth and Aberdeen went to red, they say....

 

[SmokeyJock]

Ah, most of the projects went ok. I had one at Longforgan that was a shocker though lol.

A mishandled JCB or a poorly marked signalling trunk... every signal between Perth and Aberdeen went to red, they say....

a friend and I made an enemy of a Longforgan farmer when we were younger, we used to roll his haybales down to the burn and sit on them and ride them downstream until they'd get stuck, then go back and repeat... we may have partially flooded one of his fields