Archive Lambasting of the Old Railway
Today’s edition of BBC Radio Ulster’s Radio Years with John Bennett looked at the year 1948, and included a short snippet of noted playwright St. John Greer Ervine, who looks back at his birth-place. In this recording he attacks the Belfast & Co. Down Railway for calling their station “Knock”, instead of “The Knock”, which […]
Painting the Town (or Telephone Box) Red
What do you do when the trains aren’t running because of the Twelfth holidays? Catch up on all those little jobs needing done! As well as a skeleton crew shunting the sheds, one such job was painting the telephone box (K6 design for those interested) and the King George VI period post box, which had […]